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C&O Canal Winter Count MP70-73

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Elliot Kirschbaum

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Elliot Kirschbaum

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Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:24:01 -0500

Ten people joined Nancy and I on the C&O Canal Winter Count today. The highlights of our three mile walk were the frigid temperature, the fortunate lack of wind or snow, the larger than usual number of Brown Creepers, Godlen-crowned Kinglets, Goldeneye, and ten Redheads (waterfowl not people).

We had a total of 35 species, down from last year's 40, and a total of 652 individual birds.

The counts by mile are as follows:

MP70-71

American Black Duck	2
Mallard	54
Bufflehead	14
Common Goldeneye	34
Common Merganser	23
Bald Eagle	1
Red-tailed Hawk	1
Mourning Dove	5
Belted Kingfisher	3
Red-bellied Woodpecker	11
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	4
Downy Woodpecker	10
Northern Flicker	2
Pileated Woodpecker	3
American Crow	7
Common Raven	1
Carolina Chickadee	31
Tufted Titmouse	4
White-breasted Nuthatch	17
Brown Creeper	2
Carolina Wren	7
Winter Wren	1
Golden-crowned Kinglet	13
Eastern Bluebird	10
Cedar Waxwing	9
Yellow-rumped Warbler	1
White-throated Sparrow	3
Northern Cardinal	6

Species 28, Individuals 279

MP 71-72

Great Blue Heron	4
Canada Goose	135
American Black Duck	2
Mallard	43
Redhead	10
Common Goldeneye	37
Common Merganser	21
Red-tailed Hawk	1
Belted Kingfisher	1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	2
Downy Woodpecker	1
Pileated Woodpecker	5
American Crow	7
Carolina Chickadee	1
White-breasted Nuthatch	3
Brown Creeper	2
Golden-crowned Kinglet	7
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	1
Yellow-rumped Warbler	6
White-throated Sparrow	3

Species 20, Individuals 292

MP72-73

Black Vulture	10
Turkey Vulture	1
Canada Goose	23
Common Merganser	2
Red-bellied Woodpecker	1
American Crow	24
Common Raven	1
Tufted Titmouse	3
White-breasted Nuthatch	2
Brown Creeper	1
Carolina Wren	3
Eastern Bluebird	6
Northern Mockingbird	1
Yellow-rumped Warbler	1
White-throated Sparrow	2

Species 15, Individuals 81
-- 
Elliot

-- 
Elliot Kirschbaum
Shepherdstown, WV
kingfisher501 at gmail dot com