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Posted by Roxanne Featherly on 19:00:05 12/25/12
The team consisted of Jeanette Rawls, Chris Sanchez and myself. A big thanks goes out to Chris, naturalist at Deering Estate for opening the grounds to us. It was pretty cold and pretty quiet, but we managed to scrounge up a few birds. Here's the list:
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Brown Pelican 9
Double-crested Cormorant 124
Anhinga 2
Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 2
Little Blue Heron 3
Tricolored Heron 2
Cattle Egret 10
White Ibis 919
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 62
Cooper's Hawk 1
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Laughing Gull 5
Ring-billed Gull 1
Royal Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 2
Eurasian Collared Dove 5
White-winged Dove 1
Mourning Dove 6
Monk Parakeet 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 6
Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird 1 (my house)
Pileated Woodpecker 1 (heard)
Blue Jay 1
Fish Crow 26
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 3
Northern Cardinal 2
Painted Bunting 8
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Common Grackle 9
Hill Myna 2 (count week; 12-19-12)
Nutmeg Mannikin 4 (count week; 12-20-12)
NOTE TO SELF: When it's 45 degees F or colder, count birds from Deering as flocks of birds come off their roosts. Go home and take a nap or drink coffee for a few hours at Starbucks until it warms up. Then go back out around 9:30-10AM and start counting all the birds that have now woken up and are feeding.
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