KANSAS WINTER BIRD COUNT
Junction City, December 27, 2009
39 degrees 00' North, 96 degrees 53' West Center as described in 1992, I-70 roadside rest area
west of Junction City
7:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Temperature 20 to 30 degrees F. Wind direction N, wind speed 5 to 20 mph.
Snow 5 inches.
Still Water Partly Open
Moving Water Partly open
A.M.: Mostly Cloudy
P.M.: Mostly Cloudy
OBSERVERS: 9 in field in 4 parties (non-owling)
TIME and DISTANCE: 0.75 hours and 16 miles owling.
Total party-hours 31.5 and party miles 312.75;
5 hours and 5.0 miles on foot,
27.5 hours and 307.75 miles by car.
Cackling Goose 15
Canada Goose 1776
Gadwall 12
Mallard 971
Northern Pintail 1
Ring-necked Duck 2
Common Goldeneye 236
Hooded Merganser 6
Common Merganser 5
Northern Bobwhite 4
Ring-necked Pheasant 25
Greater Prairie-Chicken 46
Wild Turkey 277
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 3
Bald Eagle 45
Northern Harrier 25
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 76
Red-tailed (Harlan's) Hawk 3
Red-tailed (Krider's) Hawk 1
Rough-legged Hawk 3
Buteo sp. 3
American Kestrel 9
Merlin 1
Prairie Falcon 2
Falcon sp. 1
American Coot 17
Ring-billed Gull 149
Herring Gull 6
Rock Dove 463
Eurasian Collared-Dove 5
Mourning Dove 64
Great Horned Owl 1
Barred Owl 1
Short-eared Owl 2
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 23
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker 16
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 7
Yellow-shafted 14
Red-shafted 2
Loggerhead Shrike 2
Blue Jay 72
American Crow 1076
Horned Lark 798
Black-capped Chickadee 28
Tufted Titmouse 20
White-breasted Nuthatch 10
Carolina Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
Eastern Bluebird 72
American Robin 431
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 1535
Cedar Waxwing 37
Yellow-rumped Warbler 24
Eastern Towhee 2
Spotted Towhee 2
American Tree Sparrow 725
Song Sparrow 19
Lincoln's Sparrow 3
Harris' Sparrow 457
White-crowned Sparrow 6
Dark-eyed (SC) Junco 1213
Lapland Longspur 157
Chestnut-collared Longspur 2
Northern Cardinal 78
Red-winged Blackbird 38
Sturnella sp. 415
Common Grackle 3
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
House Finch 61
American Goldfinch 65
House Sparrow 90
Number of Individuals 11783
Number of Species 73
Additional species seen in count circle count week but not on count day.
Green-winged Teal
Annie Baker
Chod Hedinger
Carol Hoogheem
Hoogy Hoogheem
Robert Kruger
Cheryl Miller
Chuck Otte, compiler, 613 Tamerisk, Junction City, KS 66441 otte2@cox.net
Jaye Otte
Pat Silovsky