Hi everyone, First, a huge thank you to all the participants. We have a great set of people every year and they always out do themselves and I can't thank them enough! And again, they did it this year. We were able to set a new high for the Penrose count with 129 species. We had only one big miss on the day being Northern Harrier. There had been and still may be a Red-headed Woodpecker in the circle but it is typically in an inaccessible area. Other species that were in the area a week earlier were: Surf Scoter, Harris's Sparrow, Yellow-headed Blackbird and Rusty Blackbird. We added one new species to the count that Rich Miller had found a couple weeks prior, GREEN HERON. Other notable species for this count: Snow GooseRoss's GooseRuddy DuckEared GrebeWestern GrebePeregrine FalconSandhill Crane Williamsons's Sapsucker - 2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4Ladder-backed WoodpeckerBlack PhoebeSay's PhoebeBoth ShrikesPACIFIC WRENWinter WrenNothern MockingbirdSage ThrasherRufous-crowned SparrowWhite-throated SparrowCommon GrackleGreat-tailed GrackleBrown-headed Cowbird Thank you again to everyone who helps out on their local and not so local Christmas Bird Counts!
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