[nysbirds-l] Preliminary Results Quogue Water Mill CBC (Suffolk Co.)
The 74th Annual Quogue - Water Mill Christmas Bird Count (CBC) took place this past Sunday, December 18th. Although the Count summary has not been completed yet, I can report that 25 participants – covering five sectors – found 111 species. Two new species were recorded for the Quogue - Water Mill CBC: an Osprey near Scallop Pond (North Sea) and a Cackling Goose in Southampton Village. With these additions, 206 bird species have been recorded overall in the Count’s seventy-four years, spanning 1949 through 2022. Other highlights included 11 Snow Geese, 4 Brant, 89 Northern Shoveler, 1 Northern Pintail, 30 Canvasback, 1 Redhead, 6 Common Merganser, 1 American Bittern, 10 Great Egret, 18 Bald Eagle, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 2 American Woodcock, 5 Eastern Screech Owl, 10 Great Horned Owl, 1 Northern Saw-Whet Owl, 10 Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker, 7 Common Raven, 1 Fish Crow, 7 Horned Lark, 5 Brown Creeper, 13 Golden-Crowned Kinglet, 1 Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, 4 Eastern Bluebird, 1 Hermit Thrush, 7 Gray Catbird, 3 Brown Thrasher, 30 American Pipit, 4 Orange-Crowned Warbler, 1 Pine Warbler, 3 Palm Warbler, 4 Eastern Towhee, 2 American Tree Sparrow, 5 Savannah Sparrow (including 1 Ipswich race), 14 Snow Bunting, 1 Common Grackle, and 6 Pine Siskin. Additionally, I am in the process of gathering details on a Golden Eagle report in the North Sea sector. The vast majority of expected species were found on December 18th. Among the few tough misses were: Wood Duck, Green-Winged Teal, Killdeer, Wilson’s Snipe, American Kestrel, Winter Wren, Field Sparrow, and Brown-Headed Cowbird. Thank you to all who helped out on Sunday. A full report of the 2022 Quogue - Water Mill Count will be ready for distribution in early January; please contact me via e-mail if you would like to receive a copy. The next Quogue - Water Mill CBC is tentatively scheduled for December 17, 2023. Steve Biasetti -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Preliminary Results Quogue Water Mill CBC (Suffolk Co.)
The 72nd Quogue Water Mill Christmas Bird Count -- on eastern Long Island -- took place on Sunday, December 20, 2020. Twenty-seven searchers covered the five sectors within the count circle, tallying 14,990 individual birds of 113 species. Another three species were recorded during count week. Species diversity compared well with previous Quogue Water Mill CBCs, comfortably exceeding the count average (95.8 species) since its beginnings in 1949. The number of observed individuals, however, continues a troubling trend: the last four years have tallied the four lowest counts over the past forty-five years. A number of interesting birds were recorded on December 20th, including: Harlequin Duck (17th time on the count) Great Egret (19th time, all sightings since 1994) Bald Eagle (16th time, including the past 12 years) Clapper Rail (35th) Virginia Rail (14th) Red Knot (17th) Laughing Gull (14th) Snowy Owl (17th) Northern Saw-Whet Owl (4th) Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker (21st time, all sightings since 1983) Common Raven (8th time, all sightings since 2012) Marsh Wren (14th) Eastern Bluebird (22nd) Common Yellowthroat (23rd) Chipping Sparrow (19th) Red Crossbill (13th) Pine Siskin (29th) The vast majority of expected species were found on December 20th. Among the few tough misses were Eastern Meadowlark (missed for just the 6th time) and American Kestrel (8th year not recorded). Other birds regularly recorded on the Quogue Water Mill Count, but not found during the 2020 rendition: Northern Pintail, American Bittern, Wilson’s Snipe, Brown Thrasher, and Brown-Headed Cowbird. Thank you to all who helped out last Sunday. A full report of the 2020 Quogue Water Mill Count will be ready for distribution within the next week; please contact me via e-mail if you would like to receive a copy. The next Quogue Water Mill CBC is tentatively scheduled for December 19, 2021. Steve Biasetti -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
