I now have complete or nearly complete data for the Fairmont CBC which was conducted on Saturday. The great bulk of effort this year was watchers at 8 feeder stations. In addition we had about 10 1/4 party hours birding from car and only 1/2 hr total birding on foot. This may be the lightest effort afield in the history of the count, yet I think we had decent diversity - especially considering that the only open water was some short stretches of streams (perhaps all downstream from dams).
Looks like we will likely end up with 42 species, including Red Crossbill which is a first for this count which has been conducted annually since 1990. 21 Canada Goose 3 Mallard 2 Gadwall 19 Pheasant 8 Turkey 12 Rock Pigeon 1 Collared Dove 13 Mourning Dove 1 American Coot 1 Great Blue Heron 6 Bald Eagle 2 Coopers Hawk 7 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Unknown Buteo 1 Rough-legged Hawk 3 Great Horned Owl 12 Red-bellied Woodpecker 38 Downy Woodpecker 16 Hairy Woodpecker 1 American Kestral 53 Blue Jay 43 American Crow 600 Horned Lark 43 Black-capped Chickadee 24 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 3 Brown Creeper 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 27 European Starling 59 House Sparrow 60 House Finch 7 Purple Finch 49 American Goldfinch 30 Common Redpoll 1 Red Crossbill 19 Lapland Longspur 130 Snow Bunting 7 Fox Sparrow 2 American Tree Sparrow 64 Dark-eyed Junco 41 Northern Cardinal 29 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Common Grackle Brad Bolduan Windom, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
