KANSAS WINTER BIRD COUNT

 

Junction City - December 27, 2010


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 15 to 42 degrees  F.  Wind direction SE, wind speed 2 to 19 mph.

Snow 0 inches.

Still Water Partly Open

Moving Water Partly open

A.M.: Clear

P.M.: Clear

 

OBSERVERS: 15 in field in 6 parties (non-owling)

 

TIME and DISTANCE:

0 hours at feeders

2 hours and 35 miles owling.

 

Total party-hours 42 and party miles 358;

7 hours and 7.0 miles on foot,

35 hours and 351 miles by car.

 

Cackling Goose                           9

Canada Goose                         747

Wood Duck                                 1

Gadwall                                    77

Mallard                                2,062

Green-winged Teal                     4

Lesser Scaup                             16

Bufflehead                                   2

Common Goldeneye                  80

Hooded Merganser                    20

Common Merganser                742

Northern Bobwhite                    20

Ring-necked Pheasant                 2

Greater Prairie-Chicken            15

Wild Turkey                              19

Pied-billed Grebe                       4

Double-crested Cormorant          2

Great Blue Heron                      34

Black-crowned Night-Heron       1

Bald Eagle                                45

Northern Harrier                       29

Sharp-shinned Hawk                   3

Cooper's Hawk                           2

Red-tailed Hawk                       78

Red-tailed (Harlan's) Hawk        3

American Kestrel                      10

Merlin                                         2

Prairie Falcon                             2

Falcon species                                    1

Ring-billed Gull                        67

Herring Gull                              65

Rock Dove                              296

Eurasian Collared-Dove             4

Mourning Dove                           6

Eastern Screech-Owl                  2

Great Horned Owl                      4

Barred Owl                                 2

Belted Kingfisher                        9

Red-bellied Woodpecker          37

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker          1

Downy Woodpecker                 23

Hairy Woodpecker                      6

Northern Flicker                          8

            Yellow Shafted             30

            Red Shafted                     4

Northern Shrike                           1

Blue Jay                                    53

American Crow                       386

Horned Lark                              26

Black-capped Chickadee          71

Tufted Titmouse                        20

Red-breasted Nuthatch                1

White-breasted Nuthatch           11

Brown Creeper                           3

Carolina Wren                             5

Winter Wren                                1

Golden-crowned Kinglet             6

Eastern Bluebird                     243

Hermit Thrush                             1

American Robin                   1,681

Northern Mockingbird 2

European Starling                    713

Cedar Waxwing                      133

Lapland Longspur                      25

Yellow-rumped Warbler           60

Spotted Towhee                          8

American Tree Sparrow         509

Song Sparrow                           12

Swamp Sparrow                         3

White-throated Sparrow              5

Harris' Sparrow                      100

White-crowned Sparrow           14

Dark-eyed (SC) Junco             651

            Oregon Junco                  3

Northern Cardinal                     70

Red-winged Blackbird            961

Western Meadowlark              444

Sturnella spp.                         178

Rusty Blackbird                      177

Common Grackle                        2

Brown-headed Cowbird             3

House Finch                              27

American Goldfinch                  77

House Sparrow                         74

 

Number of Individuals 11,356

Number of Species                    78

 

Additional species seen in count circle count week but not on count day.

Short-eared Owl

 

Henry Armknecht

Vanessa Avara

Doris Burnett

Warren Buss

Rachel Gugler

Chod Hedinger

Carol Hoogheem

Hoogy Hoogheem

Bob Hoopes

Sarah Inskeep

Jeff Keating

Robert Kruger

Chuck Otte, compiler, 613 Tamerisk, Junction City, KS  66441 otte2@cox.net

Jaye Otte

Pat Silovsky