Thirteen official counters braved the 9 degree weather to count Delta this year, starting at 0545 for a couple of us (the Failed Owling and Otherwise Lunatic Section, or FOOLS) and 8 am for the rest, and ending a bit after 4 pm. Greater white-fronted goose 3
Snow goose 1
Ross’s goose 1
Cackling goose 10
Canada goose 1232
Wood duck 4
Gadwall 13
American wigeon 52
Mallard 352
Blue-winged teal 1
American green-winged teal 20
Canvasback 1
Redhead 9
Ring-necked duck 97
Lesser scaup 26
Bufflehead 9
Common goldeneye 75
Barrow’s goldeneye 1
Common merganser 11
Ring-neck pheasant 11
Gambel’s quail 72
Pied-billed grebe 1
Great blue heron 4
Bald eagle 19
Northern harrier 17
Sharp-shinned hawk 3
Cooper’s hawk 6
Red-tailed hawk 28
Ferruginous hawk CW
Golden eagle 10
American kestrel 30
Merlin CW
Prairie falcon 1
Large falcon sp. 1
Virginia rail 1
American coot 56
Sandhill crane 23
Killdeer 3
Ring-billed gull 1
Rock pigeon 135
Eurasian collared-dove 49
Mourning dove 106
Western screech-owl 1
Great-horned owl 1
Belted kingfisher 3
Lewis’ woodpecker 1
Downy woodpecker 8
Northern flicker 47
Loggerhead shrike 4
Northern shrike 1
Western scrub-jay 2
Black-billed magpie 40
American crow 7
Common raven 219
Horned lark 626
Black-capped chickadee 14
Bushtit 25
Brown creeper 3
Bewick’s wren 4
Marsh wren 17
Western bluebird 1
Mountain bluebird 190
Townsend’s solitaire 1
American robin 419
Hermit thrush 1 (new species with
photos)
European starling 1265
American pipit 3
Cedar waxwing 16
Yellow-rumped warbler (A) 24
Spotted towhee 8
Lincoln’s sparrow 1 (new species, no photos)
Song sparrow 203
White-crowned sparrow 297
Dark-eyed junco (unspecified) 255
Gray-headed 25
Oregon 68
Pink-sided 180
Slate-colored 13
Red-winged blackbird 610
Yellow-headed blackbird 1
Brewer’s blackbird 70
Great-tailed grackle 2
Brown-headed cowbird 1
House finch 109
American goldfinch 50
House sparrow 340
Total count 7686
Total species 81 (lumping
juncos and not counting the “large falcon”)
My math and typing are subject to checking when I get home in a few days, and
we still have one day in the count week. Sorry for the wobbly right column, I
copied this from Word.
Dennis Garrison Black Canyon Audubon Society / Delta CBC Compiler
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