Six birders joined me for the last scheduled walk at Dyke Marsh for 2006. The
walks are suspended during the Christmas Bird Count season and resume again 7
January 2007.
All three merganser species were present during the walk, including 3 Common
Mergansers reported by Kurt Gaskill. Both species of kinglets were observed
and these little dynamos put on quite a show. We also had great views of
Red-shouldered Hawks. Besides the kinglets, other winter visitors, including
Brown Creepers, Winter Wrens, and Swamp Sparrows have settled in. Kurt Gaskill
tallied a wintering Gray Catbird as well. The entire list of today's sighting
follows:
Canada Goose 750
American Black Duck 4
Mallard 160
Bufflehead 5
Hooded Merganser 14 (half drakes, half hens)
Common Merganser 3 (hens)
Red-breasted Merganser 19 (hens)
Ruddy Duck 1
Pied-billed Grebe 6
Horned Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 15
Bald Eagle 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 3
Killdeer 1
Ring-billed Gull 700
Herring Gull 15
Great Black-backed Gull 24
Mourning Dove 105
Belted Kingfisher 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 3
Hairy Woodpecker 7
Northern Flicker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 10
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 1
crow sp 1
Carolina Chickadee 12
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Brown Creeper 2
Carolina Wren 14
Winter Wren 7
Golden-crowned Kinglet 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4
American Robin 6
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 6
European Starling 80
Song Sparrow 25
Swamp Sparrow 6
White-throated Sparrow 80
Northern Cardinal 16
Red-winged Blackbird 30
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 30
House Sparrow 10
Larry Cartwright
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