Fountain Creek CBC count week is over and it was a wild count day with a
remarkable wind storm with gusts over 100mph (maybe "just" up to 70s in our
area), sleet, graupel and more !
We had two brand new count week species - Rusty Blackbird and Common
Redpoll which were both reported at Fountain Creek Regional Park and well
documented in eBird in the days after count day. Before count day, we had
count week reports with photos in eBird for Ross's Goose and Ross's x
Cackling which each are only reported once before the count.
7 out of 9 areas had people doing some coverage on the windy count day,
albeit in many cases with reduced "effort" in terms of time spent due to
the conditions. All areas were covered in the course of the count week.
Great birds for count day included Long-eared Owl at Fort Carson and
American Dipper at Fountain Creek Regional Park - 2nd appearance for both
on count.
Thanks to all the amazing volunteers.
Bird Species Total
Cackling Goose 270
Canada Goose 1005
Canada/Cackling 0
Snow Goose 0
Ross Goose/Cackling hybrid cw
Ross Goose. cw
Gadwall 80
American Wigeon 29
Mallard 385
Mallard/Mexican 0
Northern Shoveler 1
Northern Pintail cw
Green-winged Teal 117
Blue-winged Teal cw? not sure of this report - no photos, and Scaup
reported by someone else. did not count because would be new
Wood Duck 3
Bufflehead 0
Ring-necked Duck 4
Lesser Scaup cw
Canvasback 0
Redhead cw
aythya sp cw
Common Goldeneye 1
Hooded Merganser 8
Common Merganser 6
dabbling duck sp. 0
Duck sp. (unknown or domestic) 40 some of these are dabbling, just not
reported that way.
Scaled Quail 0
Wild Turkey 5
Pied-billed Grebe 6
Great Blue Heron 12
Golden Eagle 1
Northern Harrier 6
Sharp-shinned Hawk 0
Cooper's Hawk cw
Bald Eagle 2
Red-tailed Hawk 24
Rough-legged Hawk cw
Ferruginous Hawk 1
Buteo sp. 5
Virginia Rail 3
Sora 0
American Coot 7
Killdeer 8
Wilson's Snipe 1
Ring-billed Gull 1149
California Gull 0
Herring Gull 0
Iceland Gull (Thayer's) 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Rock Pigeon 137
larus sp 0
gull sp. 82
Eurasian Collared-Dove 85
White-winged Dove cw
dove sp. 0
Western Screech Owl 0
Great Horned Owl 8
Barn Owl 1 pretty uncommon
Long-eared Owl 1 2nd time on count
owl sp. 1
Belted Kingfisher 4
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 0
Lewis's Woodpecker 2
Red-headed Woodpecker 0
Downy Woodpecker 5
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 33
American Kestrel 3
Merlin 0
Prairie Falcon 1
falcon sp 0
Say's Phoebe 0
Loggerhead Shrike 0
Northern Shrike 1
Loggerhead/Northern Shrike sp. 0
Blue Jay 9
Woodhouse's Scrub Jay 0
Steller's Jay 0
Black-billed Magpie 29
American Crow 22
Chihuahuan Raven 0
Common Raven 33
Raven sp 1
Horned Lark 34
Black-capped Chickadee 46
Mountain Chickadee cw
Bushtit cw
White-breasted Nuthatch 8
Brown Creeper 1
Winter Wren 0
Marsh Wren cw
Bewick's Wren 0
House Wren 0
Ruby-crowned Kinglet cw
Western Bluebird cw
Eastern Bluebird cw
Mountain Bluebird 8
Townsend's Solitaire cw
American Robin 15
thrush sp. 0
Northern Mockingbird cw
Curve-billed Thrasher 0
American Dipper 1 2nd time on count
Gray Catbird 0
European Starling 209
American Pipit cw
Yellow-rumped Warbler 0
American Tree Sparrow 31
Dark-eyed Junco 66
White-crowned Sparrow 37
White-throated Sparrow 0
Song Sparrow 14
Lincoln Sparrow 0
Swamp Sparrow 0
sparrow sp. 10
Spotted Towhee 22
Canyon Towhee 0
Red-winged Blackbird 406
Western Meadowlark 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 0
Great-tailed Grackle 0
Brewer's Blackbird 2
Common Grackle 3
Grackle sp. 0
Rusty Blackbird (new) cw
Blackbird sp. cw
House Finch 76
Cassin's Finch 0
Common Redpoll (new) cw
Pine Siskin cw
American Goldfinch 11
Lesser Goldfinch 0
spinus sp. 0
Lapland Longspur 2
Common Yellowthroat 0
House Sparrow 137
passerine sp. 11
Count Area Total
Total Number of Birds 4793 about 60% of last year
Total Number of Species 65 and 20 cw +1cw hybrid (last year we were in the
low 90s) last year we had 90 and 2 cw
Number of Observers 18 and 13 cw (comparable to last year when considering
just the total vs. day of) last year 30 so about the same over the week,
just not all on that day.
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