I finally am getting around to posting some preliminary results for the Ft. Collins CBC held Saturday Dec. 15th. The Fort Collins CBC was great with 60+ participants, a beautiful day, and a few owlers. We got 95 count day birds (a new high) and 101 count week birds. We did not get any new species, but we had a few unusual birds with the most uncommon a Long-tailed Duck as reported by D. Leatherman earlier. We also got 158 Common Redpolls, 3 Hermit Thrushes, and 2 Gray Catbirds (count week) with the first 2 being new high counts and the last 2 unusual for this time of year. We had high counts for 16 species, most being common species (e.g. Blue Jay, American Robin, American Goldfinch, House Finch, House Sparrow). One person pointed out that may be the summer fires had something to do with the high number of robins (normally they are up in the junipers, but they were burned out in several areas), but that would not quite explain the others. I believe the unusually warm weather prior to the count (except for a couple of days preceding the count) probably was the reason. As expected, the number of Eurasian Collared-Doves continued to climb and was well over 3,000, about 3 times higher than last year. I need to add in one more count and edit the data from the compilation dinner to complete it, but will be getting the results posted to the CBC website soon. I really appreciate everyone that participated and will try to get everyone the results. Thanks! Thomas Hall Livermore, CO
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