I see I omitted 111 American Coots, which brings my total to 101 species. And already Nancy Cusumano has let me know that the Common Loon was seen by her, Scott Sutcliffe (& others?) at the Ithaca Yacht Club in Ulysses. Thanks for help.
- - Dave Nutter > On Jan 2, 2018, at 9:09 AM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@mac.com> wrote: > > The species below were reported for the Ithaca “Christmas” Bird Count on 1 > Jan 2018. For ease in tallying the number of species they are in groups of > five species at a time here. > * new high count > ** new to the Ithaca CBC > Species found by a single party in a single place are so credited. I’m still > working on this, so please correct me where info is wrong and inform me where > info is missing. > > 12 Snow Goose > 1 Cackling Goose (Ken Rosenberg, East Shore Park, Ithaca) > 5784 Canada Goose > * 7 Mute Swan (Jessie Barry & Chris Wood, Stewart Park, Ithaca) > 12 Tundra Swan > > 7 Gadwall > 2 American Wigeon > 18 American Black Duck > 635 Mallard > 3 Northern Pintail (Kevin McGowan, Ladoga, Lansing) > > 2 Green-winged Teal (Kevin McGowan, Ladoga, Lansing) > 57 Canvasback > * 16,401 Redhead > * 250 Ring-necked Duck > ** 1 Tufted Duck (Stuart Krasnoff, SW Cayuga Lake, Ithaca) > > 9 Greater Scaup (may be revised: Jessie Barry & Chris Wood saw 30 at Stewart > Park, Ithaca) > * 501 Lesser Scaup > 1 Surf Scoter (by Kevin McGowan & Stephanie Herrick, East Shore Park, Ithaca) > * 7 White-winged Scoter > * 47 Long-tailed Duck > > 5 Bufflehead > * 204 Common Goldeneye > 2 Hooded Merganser (by Stuart Krasnoff, SW Cayuga Lake, Ithaca) > * 216 Common Merganser > *21 Red-breasted Merganser > > 2 Ruddy Duck (may be revised: Ann Mitchell saw 4, SW Cayuga Lake, Ithaca) > 1 Ruffed Grouse (by John Fitzpatrick along Cascadilla Cr, Caroline/Dryden) > 65 Wild Turkey > 1 Red-throated Loon (Ken Rosenberg & Paul Rodewald, Stewart Park, Ithaca) > 1 Common Loon (by whom where in area 7 on west side of lake?) > > 4 Horned Grebe > 1 Double-crested Cormorant (Ken Rosenberg & Paul Rodewald, Stewart Park, > Ithaca) > 2 Great Blue Heron > ** 3 Black Vulture (Anne Clark at roost north of Dryden Rd west of Forest > Home Dr, Varna, Dryden) > 26 Turkey Vulture > > 3 Northern Harrier > 6 Sharp-shinned Hawk > 18 Cooper’s Hawk > * 14 Bald Eagle > 114 Red-tailed Hawk > > 1 Rough-legged Hawk (Bill Evans, Sandbank Rd, Ithaca) > 216 Ring-billed Gull > 1006 Herring Gull > 2 Iceland Gull (Ken Rosenberg & Paul Rodewald, Stewart Park, Ithaca) > 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Ken Rosenberg & Paul Rodewald, Allan Treman State > Park, Ithaca) > > 140 Great Black-backed Gull > 737 Rock Pigeon > 723 Mourning Dove > 30 Eastern Screech-Owl > 6 Great Horned Owl > > 1 Barred Owl (John Fitzpatrick along Cascadilla Cr, Caroline/Dryden) > 1 Northern Saw-whet Owl (Ann Mitchell, Caswell Rd, Dryden) > 1 Belted Kingfisher (Marie Read near Mt Pleasant, Dryden) > 1 Red-headed Woodpecker (Tom Schulenberg in Palmer Woods, Cayuga Hts, Cornell > U, Ithaca) > 219 Red-bellied Woodpecker > > 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker > 357 Downy Woodpecker > 162 Hairy Woodpecker > 12 Northern Flicker > 28 Pileated Woodpecker > > 2 American Kestrel > 2 Peregrine Falcon > 1032 Blue Jay > 1686 American Crow > 2 Fish Crow (Paul Rodewald near NYS-13 & Third Street, Ithaca; may be > revised: Kevin McGowan reported 3 on Washington Street, Ithaca) > > 22 Common Raven > 91 Horned Lark > 1516 Black-capped Chickadee > 312 Tufted Titmouse > 10 Red-breasted Nuthatch > > 272 White-breasted Nuthatch > 19 Brown Creeper > 2 Winter Wren > 34 Carolina Wren > 32 Golden-crowned Kinglet > > 74 Eastern Bluebird > 1 Hermit Thrush (Larry Hymes, East Ithaca Recreationway, Ithaca) > 14 American Robin > 14 Northern Mockingbird > 2345 European Starling > > 68 Cedar Waxwing > 882 Snow Bunting > 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler > 345 American Tree Sparrow > * 1514 Dark-eyed Junco > > * 9 White-crowned Sparrow > 213 White-throated Sparrow > 1 Savannah Sparrow (Kevin McGowan, Blackchin Dr, Lansing) > 67 Song Sparrow > 7 Swamp Sparrow > > 1 Eastern Towhee (Steve Kress, Snyder Hill Rd, Caroline) > 402 Northern Cardinal > 12 Red-winged Blackbird (Sarah Wagner, Sapsucker Woods, Lansing/Dryden/Ithaca) > 2 Rusty Blackbird (Tracy McLellan, Lansing Center Trail, Lansing) > 3 Brown-headed Cowbird > > House Finch (number not final at tally) > 22 Purple Finch > ** European Goldfinch (Bob McGuire, Whitted Rd, Dryden) > 459 American Goldfinch > 449 House Sparrow > > 100 species found on count day. > > 2 more species found during start of count week (Dec 29, 30, & 31): > Pied-billed Grebe > Common Grackle > > Species missed on the count, but found previous years and seem plausible. > Please especially report these species if they are found in the count circle > during the rest of Count Week (Jan 2, 3, or 4): > Greater White-fronted Goose (6 were at Stewart Park on 24 Dec) > Ross’s Goose (5 were at Stewart Park on 24 Dec) > Brant > Wood Duck > Northern Shoveler > Black Scoter > Ring-necked Pheasant (not near Game Farm with plastic nasal clip) > Red-necked Grebe > Golden Eagle > Northern Goshawk > Red-shouldered Hawk > Killdeer > Bonaparte’s Gull > Glaucous Gull (1 was on red lighthouse breakwater on 24 Dec) > Snowy Owl > Long-eared Owl > Short-eared Owl > Merlin > Northern Shrike (1 was on Irish Settlement Rd on 26 Dec) > Ruby-crowned Kinglet > Gray Catbird > American Pipit (but found by Kevin McGowan just outside count circle at > Myers/Salt Point, Lansing) > Lapland Longspur > Chipping Sparrow > Field Sparrow > Fox Sparrow > Common Redpoll > Pine Siskin > > That’s my notes from the tally last night plus a bit of eBird research. 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