The preliminary species total was 118. Notable count-week birds included the previously reported Gyrfalcon at Cedar Beach and an Orange-crowned Warbler in Babylon Villange. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Shaibal Mitra [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:39 AM To: Birdingonthe.net Subject: [nysbirds-l] Captree CBC, Preliminary Results
Forty participants conducted the Captree CBC yesterday, 15 December 2013. This Count circle is on the south shore of Long Island, around the Fire Island Inlet. One of the first birds of the day was a Snowy Owl that flew directly over members of the barrier beach parties as we assembled at Captree around 6:45--the first of an astounding tally of 14 Snowies on the count. A couple of additional good counts that were immediately obvious: 13 Wood Ducks 162 White-winged Scoters 321 Red-throated Loons 12 Razorbills 75 Horned Larks 22 Brown Creepers 188 Carolina Wrens 19 Winter Wrens 48 Field Sparrows 42 Fox Sparrows 44 Swamp Sparrows Other highlights included: 1 Snow Goose (Connetquot) 5 Eurasian Wigeon (East) 2 Canvasbacks (Gardiner) 2 Common Mergansers (Belmont) 2 Red-necked Grebes (Jones) 2 Great Egrets (Seatuck) 2 Black-crowned Night-Herons (Gardiner) 1 Northern Goshawk (Fire) 1 Rough-legged Hawk (Jones) 1 Greater Yellowlegs (East) 1 Pectoral Sandpiper (Heckscher) 1 Glaucous Gull (Fire) 2 Black-legged Kittiwakes (Fire) 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Seatuck) 1 Lapland Longspur (Heckscher) 1 Magnolia Warbler (Heckscher) 1 Palm Warbler (Fire) 1 Vesper Sparrow (Heckscher) 1 Eastern Meadowlark (Jones0 2,500 Common Grackles (North); we miss this species more often than not 4 Boat-tailed Grackles (Jones) Our worst misses included the following species, with the number in parentheses indicating the number of years each was recorded during the previous ten: Wild Turkey (7) Great Cormorant (10) American Kestrel (7) Virginia Rail (6) Marsh Wren (7) American Pipit (8) Chipping Sparrow (8) White-crowned Sparrow (6) Other obvious low counts included: 125 Red-breasted Mergansers 6 Sharp-shinned Hawks 76 Myrtle Warblers Shai Mitra & Patricia Lindsay Bay Shore, NY ________________________________ CSI has been ranked one of America's Best Colleges 2014<http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/regional-universities-north/top-public/spp+50/page+2> (North East Public) by US News and World Report. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
