Birders, A blustery day made finding birds quite tricky on New Year's Day. The Carroll CBC found 40 species along with 6 Count Week species. As previously mentioned, the highlight was probably finding the 3 "tough" owls: Northern Saw-whet, Short-eared, and Long-eared (ZERO of any of the 3 common species). A female Hooded Merganser was a good bird for this count (there was a bit of open water on Swan Lake). I won't elaborate on misses - there are obviously plenty of those with only 40 total species found. Count week highlights include Snowy Owl, Merlin, Rusty Blackbird, and Pine Siskin. We had 5 all day participants, 2 half day, and 3 feeder watchers. Bird on... matt Matthew T. Wetrich http://www.etsy.com/shop/NatureBMW?ref=si_shop Naturalist, Carroll County Conservation (712) 210-4614
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