Bremer Co. CBC was held Saturday and Cedar Falls-Waterloo CBC was held on Sunday. I don't have the official count number results. Francis Moore is compiling the count numbers and will have them sometime later, but thought I would mention some of the highlights. We didn't find any big rarities but did find some nice birds. On the Bremer count, we tallied 13 species of waterfowl: 1 W.F. Goose 20 Snow Geese 2 Cackling Geese 1 Am. Black Duck 1 G.W. Teal 2 Hooded Mergansers 12 Gadwalls 10 Am. Coots 1 Juv. N.Goshawk 2 Merlins 1 G.B. Heron R.H. Woodpecker 5-6? 2 Pileated Woodpeckers 2 Swamp Sparrows 1 Lapland Longspur Rusty Blackbirds On the Cedar Falls-Waterloo count the highlights were 18 species of waterfowl including: Trumpeter Swans 2 Ross's Geese (Have been around now for about a month and a half) 25 Cackling Geese 4 D.C. Cormorants 2 Snow Geese 2 Am. Widgeons Canvasbacks 1 Ruddy Duck 2 Am. Black Ducks 4 R.B. Nuthatches Siskins 3 Swamp Sparrows 3 R.S. Hawks
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