Despite the below zero temperatures the morning of the count we had 10 people show up for the Hotchkiss CBC. Everyone's thermometer seemed to have a different reading so who knows how cold it really was. The high temperature for our area was probably about 12 deg F! I am waiting on a count from one feeder but have tallied everything else for the count. The only first-for-the-count bird I just heard about today - Fox Sparrow - from a feeder near Hotchkiss. Otherwise, species diversity was a little low and total # of birds was about average (compared to data from the past 15 years). Here is the species list:
Canada Goose 7 Mallard 136 Green-winged Teal 13 Ring-necked Duck 0 Chukar 4 Ring-necked Pheasant 3 Wild Turkey 39 Bald Eagle 34 Northern Harrier 4 Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 47 Ferruginous Hawk 0 Rough-legged Hawk 14 Golden Eagle 24 American Kestrel 25 Merlin 0 Prairie Falcon 3 Killdeer 5 Wilson's Snipe 1 Rock Pigeon 73 Eurasian Collared-Dove 120 Mourning Dove 30 Great Horned Owl 0 Belted Kingfisher 7 Lewis's Woodpecker 14 Downy Woodpecker 8 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 58 Northern Shrike 1 Western Scrub-Jay 19 Pinyon Jay 43 Black-billed Magpie 97 American Crow 184 Common Raven 68 Horned Lark 2 Black-capped Chickadee 6 Mountain Chickadee 9 Juniper Titmouse 2 Bushtit 20 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Brown Creeper 5 Marsh Wren 1 American Dipper 0 Mountain Bluebird 251 Townsend's Solitaire 3 American Robin 95 European Starling 1269 American Pipit 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 13 Spotted Towhee 7 American Tree Sparrow 4 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 63 White-crowned Sparrow 98 Dark-eyed Junco 875 Red-winged Blackbird 449 Western Meadowlark 1 Brewer's Blackbird 24 Cassin's Finch 0 House Finch 242 Pine Siskin 0 Lesser Goldfinch 0 American Goldfinch 52 Evening Grosbeak 48 House Sparrow 323 # species: 66 total # birds: 4955 0 = count week birds Happy New Year! Jason Beason Paonia - Delta County -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
