The Syracuse Christmas Bird Count occurred on Saturday, 18 December. Twenty-five observers encountered 84 species – 10 more species than the 30-year average of 74 species/year. It was a very wet day and thus overall numbers were down. The most noteworthy sighting was of *one female Pine Grosbeak* at Green Lakes State Park (last encountered on the Syracuse CBC 14 years ago). Also, two Northern Shrikes were encountered – one at Green Lakes and the other along the west shore of Onondaga Lake.
Canada Goose 2038 Mute Swan 20 Tundra Swan 32 Gadwall 4 American Wigeon 3 American Black Duck 10 Mallard 377 Northern Pintail 1 Redhead 210 Ring-necked Duck 2 Greater Scaup 6 Lesser Scaup 4 White-winged Scoter 5 Bufflehead 27 Common Goldeneye 11 Hooded Merganser 27 Common Merganser 14 Red-breasted Merganser 2 Wild Turkey 69 Common Loon 2 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Red-necked Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 93 Great Blue Heron 3 Northern Harrier 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 Cooper’s Hawk 6 Bald Eagle 10 Red-tailed Hawk 39 American Coot 15 Bonaparte’s Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 636 Herring Gull 22 Great Black-backed Gull 11 Rock Pigeon 1302 Mourning Dove 384 Eastern Screech-Owl 3 Great Horned Owl 3 Snowy Owl 1 Belted Kingfisher 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 51 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Downy Woodpecker 65 Hairy Woodpecker 22 Northern Flicker 30 Pileated Woodpecker 7 American Kestrel 2 Merlin 3 *Northern Shrike 2* Blue Jay 127 American Crow 8100 Fish Crow 1 Common Raven 9 Black-capped Chickadee 323 Tufted Titmouse 87 Red-breasted Nuthatch 12 White-breasted Nuthatch 64 Brown Creeper 3 Winter Wren 6 Marsh Wren 3 Carolina Wren 9 Golden-crowned Kinglet 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 3 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 132 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 5 European Starling 4081 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 American Tree Sparrow 191 Dark-eyed Junco 164 White-throated Sparrow 180 Song Sparrow 26 Swamp Sparrow 1 Chipping Sparrow *cw* Northern Cardinal 230 Red-winged Blackbird 53 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 *Pine Grosbeak 1* House Finch 111 Pine Siskin 1 American Goldfinch 217 House Sparrow 364 Cheers! *Jason Luscier* Associate Professor Dept. of Biological and Environmental Sciences Le Moyne College Syracuse, NY 13214 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
