40th BUSHY RUN S.P. CHRISTMAS
BIRD COUNT 2013 (114th)
Dec. 15, 2013
Count center 2 miles SE Delmont on County Route 856.
Time 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Weather: Temp. 27-34F,
Wind 8-16mph . Two inches scattered snow cover.
Moving water open. Still water partly frozen. Dark
overcast all day. Observers: 18 in 6-7 parties (nonowling) + 7 at feeders (7.25 hours). Total Party
Hours: 47; 23.5 by foot, 23.5 by car. Total Party
Miles: 300: 18 by foot, 282 by car. Deer seen: 38
Record high * in boldface. Previous record high ( )
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Canada Goose – 746 (1145)
Mute Swan – 6 (11)
Tundra Swan – 10 (21)
Mallard – 88 (825)
Gadwall - 6 (7)
Pintail – 2 (5)
Redhead – 2 (2)
Hooded Merganser – 34 (87)
Common Merganser – 45 (70)
Red-breasted Merganser – 10 (10)
Ring-necked Pheasant – 4 (13)
Wild Turkey – 41 (294)
Pied-billed Grebe – 7 (12)
Great Blue Heron – 4 (17)
Bald Eagle – 6 (7) 2 ad, 2 imm.
Northern Harrier – 2 (4)
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 (7)
Cooper’s Hawk - 1 (13)
Red-tailed Hawk – 25 (87)
American Kestrel – 10 (26)
American Coot – 7 (41)
Ring-billed Gull – 75* (4)
Gull species – 2
Rock Pigeon – 75 (669)
Mourning Dove – 263 (785)
Eastern Screech Owl – 2 (13)
Belted Kingfisher – 1 (10)
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 36 (94)
Downy Woodpecker – 33 (121)
Hairy Woodpecker –9 (28)
Northern Flicker – 3 (50)
Pileated Woodpecker – 7 (25)
Blue Jay – 69 (333)
American Crow – 255 (799)
Common Raven – 2 (7)
Carolina Chickadee – 13 (72)
Black-capped Chickadee – 11 (315)
Chickadee Species – 102 (112)
Tufted Titmouse – 52 (223)
Red-breasted Nuthatch – 1 (16)
White-breasted Nuthatch – 50 (127)
Brown Creeper – 3 (20)
Carolina Wren – 23 (110)
Golden-crowned Kinglet – 28 (114)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 5* (4)
Eastern Bluebird – 40 (142)
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Hermit Thrush – 2 (9)
American Robin – 4 (1219)
Mockingbird – 7 (54)
European Starling – 493 (6089)
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 14 (288)
Cardinal – 143 (342)
Eastern Towhee – 2 (15)
Tree Sparrow – 35 (757)
Song Sparrow – 58 (231)
Swamp Sparrow – 2 (15)
White-throated Sparrow – 53 (461)
White-crowned Sparrow – 13 (114)
Dark-eyed junco – 436 (952)
Brown-headed Cowbird – 1 (614)
House Finch – 55 (544)
American Goldfinch – 49 (252)
House Sparrow – 157 (782)
Total Species – 61 (81)
Total individuals 3741 (11,184)
Participants: Field observers in boldface! All
others watched feeders. Margaret Ackerman,
Linda Lou Baker, Norman Bono, Mark
Bowers, Ken Byerly, Dick Byers (compiler),
Shannon Courage, Mary Dorman, Patience
Fisher, Karen Jackson, Merle Jackson, Mary
Lawrence, Steve Manns, Dale Matuza, Tom
Moser, Mark McConaughy, Bill Paxton, Tom
Pearson, Jason Pigan, Bill Powers, Diane Scott,
Mary Jane Seipler, Loree Speedy, Mary Lou
Shreffler, Michele Zerebnick.
Comments: A very dark, dismal, windy day. Birds
stayed under cover. Low turnout of participants, &
party hours the lowest since 1993. Two hi-count
records set in boldface.
Birder of Yore continued from page 12…
yet I am going thus to act. I have just read what
you have said in the Record about my Pigeon
chapters, and it has gratified me beyond measure. I
have sometimes felt a little disappointed that the
labour of so many years seemed to be almost
thrown away, for you are the first man, capable of
forming a judgment who seems to have thought
anything of this part of my work. The amount of
labour, correspondence ,and care, which the subject
cost me, is more than you could well suppose. I
thought the article in the Athenceum, written, I have
no doubt, by Owen, was very unjust; but now I feel
amply repaid, and I cordially thank you for your
sympathy and too warm praise. What labour you
have bestowed on your part of this Record!
I thoroughly enjoyed the Sunday which you
and the others spent here, and I remain, dear
Newton,
Yours very sincerely,
Charles Darwin