Hello all,
   
  Below is a message Dan asked me to post to the listsev as he has had some issues with logging on.  
   
  I'd like to say thanks especially to Maren, Dan and Jim for organizing this CBC trial run.  I look forward to participating again next year when the circle is officially established.  I don't think it is too much of a stretch to say that a good time was had by all involved.  And, some good birds were found along the way.  I think with a few more eyes this count could be great.  
   
   
  Jason Guerard
  Cape May, NJ
   
   
   
  From Dan Small,
   
  The following people participated yesterday in a trial
run CBC (yet to be named) centered on Chesterville,
Kent County: Jim and Trish Gruber, Doug Gill, Harry
Sears, Jason Guerard, Pete Blank, Jared and Zack
Parks, Helga Orrick, Maren Gimpel and Dan Small. 

  Some good birds were found despite it being mid-week,
during a hunting day, with little access to private
lands and the small number of observers.  We plan to
make the count official for next year so keep an eye
out for the announcement. 
 
Highlights in all caps.
 
Great Blue Heron- 33
 Mute Swan- 3
 Tundra Swan- 33
 Canada Goose- 36031
 Cackling Goose- 3
 Snow Goose- 27993
 Blue form- 132
 Ross's Goose- 4
 Mallard- 780
   Black Duck- 225
 Gadwall- 42
 No. Pintail- 8
 Green-winged Teal- 27
 American Widgeon- 3
 Northern Shoveler- 3
 Wood Duck- 2
 Ring-necked Duck- 1
 Lesser Scaup- 69
 Hooded Merganser- 5
 Common Merganser- 14
 Turkey Vulture- 495
 Black Vulture- 54
 Sharpie- 10
 Coop- 4
 Red-tailed Hawk- 61
 Red-shouldered Hawk- 7
 Bald Eagle adult- 22
      imm.-14
 Northern Harrier- 12
 Merlin- 2
 American Kestrel-20
   Northern Bobwhite- 22
 Wild Turkey- 1
 KING RAIL- 1 (heard by Jim Gruber from the Morgnec bridge) 
  American Woodcock-2
 Wilson's Snipe-1
 Great-black-backed Gull-1
 LESSER-BLACK BACKED GULL- 1 (Seen from the Sassafras
 NRMA over the Sassafras River by Jared and Zack Parks,
 and Jason Guerard)
 Ring-billed Gull-980
 Bonaparte's Gull- 2
 Rock Pigeon- 153
 Mourning Dove- 295
 Eastern Screech Owl- 9
 Great-horned Owl- 17
 Barred Owl- 5
 LONG-EARED OWL- 2(found by Doug Gill on a private farm)
 Belted Kingfisher- 7
 Yellow-shafted Flicker- 70
   Pileated Woodpecker- 9
 Red-bellied Woodpecker- 67
 RED-HEADED WOODPECKER- 1 (found by Harry Sears and Doug Gill on a private farm)
 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker- 9
 Hairy Woodpecker- 16
 Downy Woodpecker- 72
 Eastern Phoebe- 1
 Blue Jay -114
 American Crow- 126
 Fish Crow- 2
 Horned Lark- 542
 Carolina Chickadee- 165
 Eastern-tufted Titmouse- 110
 White-breasted Nuthatch- 31
 Brown Creeper- 13
 Winter Wren- 14
 Carolina Wren- 117
 Golden-crowned Kinglet- 23
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet- 15
 American Robin- 97
 Hermit Thrush- 23
 Eastern Bluebird- 121
 Northern Mockingbird- 94
 Gray Catbird- 2
 Brown Thrasher- 2
 American Pipit- 145
 Cedar Waxwing- 48
 European Starling- 17092
 Yellow-rumped warbler- 17
 WILSON'S WARBLER- 1 (found by Jim Gruber just outside the town of Millington. Head east along Rt 291 from Millington, pull over where the high tension wires
cross 291 and search the north side of the road). 
Northern Cardinal- 398
 Eastern Towhee- 19
 Savannah Sparrow- 259
 Slate-colored Junco- 1169
 American Tree Sparrow- 3
 Chipping Sparrow- 12
 Field Sparrow- 53
 White-crowned Sparrow- 92
 White-throated Sparrow- 2229
 Fox Sparrow- 4
 Swamp Sparrow- 21
 Song Sparrow- 661
 LAPLAND LONGSPUR- 3 (found by Doug Gill on the 17th and on count day at the intersection of Leverage and Union-Church Rd mixed in with Horned Larks)
 Eastern Meadowlark- 4
 Red-winged Blackbird- 29212
 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD- 1 CW (found on the 17th by Doug Gill in the same area as the Longspurs)
 Common Grackle- 6135
 Brown-headed Cowbird- 324
 House Sparrow- 217
 American Goldfinch- 59
 House Finch- 113
 
Total birds= 127,481
Total species= 97 and 1 Count week bird
 
Dan Small
   Chestertown, MD

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