Happy New Year. Finally found the time time to post our 2014 results.
The 2014 Sagaponack CBC was held on Sunday 21 December, We confronted challenging weather but through hard work by our enthusiastic crew had a successful count. We were fortunate to have more participants than past years. We observed 127 species with an additional two seen during count week. We added two species to the overall list: Common Raven and Wilson's Warbler. Our highlights were as follows: 4 Greater White-fronted Geese, 2 Cackling Geese, 5 Brant, 2 Tundra Swans, 94 Common Eider, 3 Red-necked Grebes, 2 Bald Eagles, 1 Rough-legged Hawk, 1 American Kestrel, 3 Virginia Rails, 2 Purple Sandpipers, 1 Laughing Gull, 1 Black-headed Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Glaucous Gull, 66 Razorbills, 2 Long-eared Owls, 1 Short-eared Owls, 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, 1 Fish Crow, 1 Common Raven, 110, Horned Larks, 3 House Wrens, 14 Eastern Bluebirds, 10 Hermit Thrushes, 19 Catbirds, 4 Brown Thrashers, 12 American Pipits, 6 Orange-crowned Warblers, 1 Nashville Warbler, 10 Palm Warblers, 2 Common Yellowthroats, 1 Wilson's Warbler, 17 Eastern Towhees, 36 American Tree Sparrow, 7 Chipping Sparrows, 1 Vesper Sparrow, 65 Fox Sparrows, 61 White-crowned Sparrows, 16 Eastern Meadowlarks, 1 Baltimore Oriole, 1 Purple Finch and 7 Pine Siskins. Birds occurring in higher numbers than usual included: 313 Mute Swans, 122 Ring-necked Ducks, 182 Hooded Merganser, 102 Wild Turkey, 12 Cooper's Hawks, 367 American Coots, 15 Screech Owls, 497 Blue Jays, 57 White-breasted Nuthatches, and 1518 American Robins. Birds occurring in low numbers included most puddle ducks, all bay ducks, Ring-necked Pheasant, Myrtle Warbler, Field Sparrow, and Snow Bunting. Bad misses (defined as birds we see at least 50% of the time on previous counts): Snow Goose, Wood Duck, Common Merganser, Great Cormorant, Black-crowned Nigh-Heron, Black-bellied Plover, Killdeer, Marsh Wren and Ipswich Sparrow. Black-legged Kittiwake and Tree Swallow were seen during count week. Thanks to all of the group who made this a successful count. The 2015 Sagaponack CBC will be held on Sunday 20 December so mark your birding calendars. If you are interested in being added to our participant list, please email me. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
