The 74th Annual Quogue - Water Mill Christmas Bird Count (CBC) took place this past Sunday, December 18th. Although the Count summary has not been completed yet, I can report that 25 participants – covering five sectors – found 111 species.
Two new species were recorded for the Quogue - Water Mill CBC: an Osprey near Scallop Pond (North Sea) and a Cackling Goose in Southampton Village. With these additions, 206 bird species have been recorded overall in the Count’s seventy-four years, spanning 1949 through 2022. Other highlights included 11 Snow Geese, 4 Brant, 89 Northern Shoveler, 1 Northern Pintail, 30 Canvasback, 1 Redhead, 6 Common Merganser, 1 American Bittern, 10 Great Egret, 18 Bald Eagle, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 2 American Woodcock, 5 Eastern Screech Owl, 10 Great Horned Owl, 1 Northern Saw-Whet Owl, 10 Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker, 7 Common Raven, 1 Fish Crow, 7 Horned Lark, 5 Brown Creeper, 13 Golden-Crowned Kinglet, 1 Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, 4 Eastern Bluebird, 1 Hermit Thrush, 7 Gray Catbird, 3 Brown Thrasher, 30 American Pipit, 4 Orange-Crowned Warbler, 1 Pine Warbler, 3 Palm Warbler, 4 Eastern Towhee, 2 American Tree Sparrow, 5 Savannah Sparrow (including 1 Ipswich race), 14 Snow Bunting, 1 Common Grackle, and 6 Pine Siskin. Additionally, I am in the process of gathering details on a Golden Eagle report in the North Sea sector. The vast majority of expected species were found on December 18th. Among the few tough misses were: Wood Duck, Green-Winged Teal, Killdeer, Wilson’s Snipe, American Kestrel, Winter Wren, Field Sparrow, and Brown-Headed Cowbird. Thank you to all who helped out on Sunday. A full report of the 2022 Quogue - Water Mill Count will be ready for distribution in early January; please contact me via e-mail if you would like to receive a copy. The next Quogue - Water Mill CBC is tentatively scheduled for December 17, 2023. Steve Biasetti -- 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/ --
