Sorry for the previous post. That's what I get for trying to type this on my laptop while sitting in my recliner. In any event, the Smithtown Count was held on Wednesday, December 27 under clear, cold conditions with light winds. We recorded a total of 109 species. The highlights are listed below:
4 Cackling Goose 1 King Eider 31 Common Merganser 3 Gannet 5 Bobwhite 11 Turkey 2 Virginia Rail 1 Great Egret 5 Black-bellied Plover 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Razorbill 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 5 Killdeer 5 Purple Sandpiper 2 Bald Eagle 4 Cooper's Hawk 1 Barn Owl 1 Snowy Owl 2 Northern Saw-whet Owl 34 Eastern Screech Owl 15 Great Horned Owl 15 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3 Peregrine Falcon 1 Eastern Phoebe 412 Blue Jay (near high count) 53 American Crow (all time low count) 4 Raven 1 Horned Lark 3 Marsh Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Purple Finch 4 Snow Bunting 2 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Field Sparrow 4 Chipping Sparrow 16 Savannah Sparrow 89 Rusty Blackbird (high count) Count Week: Red-necked Grebe Semipalmated Plover Black-headed Gull Merlin Rich Gostic Compiler -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
