On Saturday 12/18, I covered the Wilson Harbor and Wilson-Tuscarora
State Park areas for the Wilson-Lake Plains CBC (Niagara County),
after a couple hours of lakewatching (Lake Ontario) with Willie
D'Anna at their place. Overall, a good day, especially for diversity,
despite limited visibility due to snow while lakewatching - I had 49
species for the day. Here are the results:
Red-throated Loon - 8
Common Loon - 1
Horned Grebe - 4
Canada Goose - 472
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 49
White-winged Scoter - 41
Long-tailed Duck - 47
Bufflehead - 4
Common Goldeneye - 226
Common Merganser - 27
Red-breasted Merganser - 1213
Northern Harrier - 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Bonaparte's Gull - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 115
Herring Gull - 292
Iceland Gull - 1 adult
Glaucous Gull - 1 1st winter
Great Black-backed Gull - 17
Mourning Dove - 5
Great Horned Owl - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
Downy Woodpecker - 11
Northern Flicker - 3
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Northern Shrike - 1
Blue Jay - 9
American Crow - 2
Black-capped Chickadee - 36
Tufted Titmouse - 4
White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
Carolina Wren - 1
Brown Creeper - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 2
American Robin - 5
European Starling - 16
Cedar Waxwing - 54
American Tree Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 5
White-throated Sparrow - 5
Dark-eyed Junco - 2
Northern Cardinal - 22
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 2
House Sparrow - 1
Brett
Lakeshore Nature Tours
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