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Post by luv2bird on Jan 11, 2015 20:44:27 GMT -5
1/10-11/2015
Both Days AM & PM
5 Hours
Low 0*F, High 42*F.
No Percip.
3 inches of ground snow-melting
8 BLUE JAY 12 SLATE-COLORED JUNCO 30 HOUSE FINCH 35 HOUSE SPARROW 11 AM. GOLDFINCH
19 MOURNING DOVE 10 N. CARDINAL 3 RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER 4 DOWNY WOODPECKER 4 BC/C CHICKADEE
3 TUFTED TITMICE 3 WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH 12 E. STARLING 3 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW 6 WHITE-THROATED SPARROW
4 AM. ROBINS 8 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS 1 CAROLINA WREN 1 SONG SPARROW 1 FIELD SPARROW
1 SHARP-SHINNED HAWK
LUV2BIRD
UNCONFIRMED--1 SAVANNAH SPARROW (REFERANCE BOOK- SPARROWS OF UNITED STATES & CANADA--PAGE 138 - FIRST SPARROW AT THE TOP--HAD VERY DARK HEAD STRIPES, SHORT BREAST STRIPES STOPPING BEFORE BELLY, A FAINT BREAST SPOT)
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Post by hazelrunmama on Jan 11, 2015 21:43:55 GMT -5
Nice variety in your count, l2b! And 5 native sparrows (6 if your savannah is confirmed) -- that looks like spring sparrow migration count here!
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Post by Calamity Creek Gal on Jan 11, 2015 22:25:10 GMT -5
Nice count! Your numbers just keep going up.
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Post by luv2bird on Jan 12, 2015 10:28:04 GMT -5
Nice variety in your count, l2b! And 5 native sparrows (6 if your savannah is confirmed) -- that looks like spring sparrow migration count here!
Thanks, Hazel, I knew the Savannah Sparrow looked different, he did not have that long nice tail that the Song Sparrow has, but he didn't stay long enough for a photo.
l2b
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Post by luv2bird on Jan 12, 2015 10:30:45 GMT -5
Nice count! Your numbers just keep going up.
Thanks, Lue, we had our first accumulating snow of 3 inches, that really brings the birds in.
l2b
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Post by hutchgigi on Jan 12, 2015 13:07:27 GMT -5
I was shocked to get up and see rain, it is washing the snow off the deck. I wonder what will happen to the lake that is frozen. No action on it today. I just worry it will soften it and people will get hurt. We seam to be at 33 degrees and right on the line of snow and rain. The birds are haing fun with all the seed. ginny H.
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Post by luv2bird on Jan 12, 2015 17:31:35 GMT -5
I was shocked to get up and see rain, it is washing the snow off the deck. I wonder what will happen to the lake that is frozen. No action on it today. I just worry it will soften it and people will get hurt. We seam to be at 33 degrees and right on the line of snow and rain. The birds are haing fun with all the seed. ginny H.
Temp. is 37*F. and it is rain here today, then freezing rain and it will turning to accumulating snow later this evening. The birds are bracing for Winter weather, and really chowing down.
luv2bird
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Post by naturelover on Jan 15, 2015 11:57:16 GMT -5
Here is my count for 1/12 and 1/13/14: Low 38*, hi 47*, 1-3 hours rain, FOG
Species 12 Jan 2015 Average group size when seen
Mourning Dove 16 8.6
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 1.142857143
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 0 1
Downy Woodpecker 2 1.8
Blue Jay 0 2
Carolina Chickadee 3 2.6
Tufted Titmouse 2 1.8
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 1.9
Brown Creeper 1 1
Carolina Wren 1 1.5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 1
Eastern Bluebird 0 3
American Robin 1 4.5
Pine Warbler 3 1.75
Yellow-rumped Warbler 0 1
Chipping Sparrow 1 4.833333333
Song Sparrow 1 1
White-throated Sparrow 4 4.1
Dark-eyed Junco 16 7.1
Northern Cardinal 2 1.777777778
House Finch 7 4.444444444
Purple Finch 7 3
Pine Siskin 10 8.75
American Goldfinch 30 10.5
Total Species Observed 20
Still not seeing my hordes of cardinals. Have recently seen a mockingbird getting a drink, and an Eastern phoebe on the tele. wire but not on count days. I've had a few house finches with eye disease this season so far, and a purple finch with a large tick near her eye. I also had a tufted titmouse with a damaged leg early in the season but I don't see it anymore.
This morning it's 34* at 11am and sleet. Snow is moving our way and roads are going to get very slick. glad the grocery shopping got done yesterday!
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Post by hazelrunmama on Jan 15, 2015 13:40:43 GMT -5
Wow, Marilyn, a kinglet! That'd be quite a thrill to be able to report a kinglet!! I wonder where your cardinals are off to?
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Post by naturelover on Jan 16, 2015 8:14:42 GMT -5
The kinglet is a little cutie, flits about from place to place, always in a hurry. He likes the suet and mealworms, and he visits pretty regularly all winter. I love watching him! The absence of the cardinals has me stumped.
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Post by Calamity Creek Gal on Jan 16, 2015 8:44:22 GMT -5
What a great gathering of birds. Unfortunate that the Cardinals have gone missing. But it sounds like the Kinglet is very entertaining. I'd like the Pine Warbler, Purple Finch and Nuthatches to visit here!
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Post by naturelover on Jan 16, 2015 11:56:08 GMT -5
Pine warblers (I had 4 yesterday!) and purple finches are winter birds, but the white-breasted nuthatches are year-round. I occasionally have brown-headed ones too. In TN we had red-breasted ones in an irruption year and they are smaller & really cute!
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Post by hazelrunmama on Jan 16, 2015 12:29:36 GMT -5
The red-breasted nuthatches are smaller than brown-headed nuthatches? I've never seen the brown-headed ones in person, but we have red-breasted nuthatches most years (not this winter much, though, for whatever reason). I always pictured them to be about the same size? The thought of warblers in winter, now THAT boggles my mind! Warblers are strictly migration and summer birds here!
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Post by naturelover on Jan 16, 2015 17:42:45 GMT -5
According to AllAboutBirds.com : "Red-breasted Nuthatch larger, has white eyestripe, black or dark gray crown, and is reddish underneath." It was several years between my sightings of each and my visual memory wasn't great! You are absolutely correct Hazel!. We have pine and yellow-rumped warblers here in the winter. Once only I've seen an American redstart and a hooded warbler (not together). I don't see any in the summer.
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Post by luv2bird on Jan 16, 2015 18:02:35 GMT -5
That's a great count, naturelover, and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, congrats. all way around.
luv2bird
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