Kansas Winter Bird Count
Junction City
39 degrees 00.0' North, 96 degrees 52.9' West Center as described in 1992, I-70 roadside rest area west of Junction City
December 26, 2011; 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Temperature 25 to 43 degrees F. Wind direction S,
wind speed 0 to 9 mph.
Snow 0 inches.
Still Water: Mostly Open
Moving Water: Mostly open
A.M.: Mostly cloudy, light rain showers
P.M.: Mostly cloudy
OBSERVERS: 14 in field in 6 parties (non-owling), non at feeders
TIME and DISTANCE:
0 hours at feeders;
1.25 hours and 20 miles owling.
Total party-hours 45.5 and party miles 309;
15.5 hours and 11.0 miles on foot,
30 hours and 298 miles by car.
Greater White-fronted Goose 7
Snow Goose (white) 650
Snow Goose (blue) 33
Ross's Goose 1
Cackling Goose 60
Canada Goose 1371
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 287
American Wigeon 27
Mallard 1381
Northern Pintail 2
Green-winged Teal 10
Ring-necked Duck 3
Lesser Scaup 2
Bufflehead 10
Common Goldeneye 246
Hooded Merganser 64
Common Merganser 33
Red-breasted Merganser 9
Northern Bobwhite 28
Ring-necked Pheasant 7
Wild Turkey 146
Pied-billed Grebe 8
American White Pelican 2
Great Blue Heron 15
Bald Eagle (total) 15 (age not differentiated)
Northern Harrier 36
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper's Hawk 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 130
Red-tailed (Harlan's) Hawk 3
Rough-legged Hawk 3
American Kestrel 15
Merlin 1
American Coot 102
Bonaparte's Gull 4
Ring-billed Gull 94
Herring Gull 11
Rock Dove 274
Eurasian Collared-Dove 45
Mourning Dove 96
Eastern Screech-Owl 3
Great Horned Owl 8
Barred Owl 1
Short-eared Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 12
Red-headed Woodpecker 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 46
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 8
Downy Woodpecker 29
Hairy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 15
Yellow-shafted 50
Red-shafted 2
Loggerhead Shrike 4
Northern Shrike 1
Blue Jay 126
American Crow 391
Horned Lark 67
Black-capped Chickadee 80
Tufted Titmouse 38
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 26
Brown Creeper 3
Carolina Wren 14
Winter Wren 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 12
Eastern Bluebird 107
Townsend's Solitaire 1
American Robin 620
Northern Mockingbird 5
European Starling 671
Cedar Waxwing 168
Lapland Longspur 200
Yellow-rumped Warbler 70
Eastern Towhee 1
Spotted Towhee 5
American Tree Sparrow 821
Vesper Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 12
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 36
Lincoln's Sparrow 2
Harris' Sparrow 223
White-crowned Sparrow 13
Dark-eyed (SC) Junco 1099
Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco 1
Northern Cardinal 173
Red-winged Blackbird 636
Eastern Meadowlark 4
meadowlark sp. 229
Rusty Blackbird 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
House Finch 69
American Goldfinch 767
House Sparrow 99
Total Species 91
Total Individuals 12,230
Additional species seen in count circle count week but not on count day:
Snowy Owl
Pileated Woodpecker
Warren Buss
Chod Hedinger
Hoogy Hoogheem
Carol Hoogheem
Bob Hoopes
Jacob Keating
Jeff Keating
Bob Kruger
Dan Larson
Jaye Otte
Chuck Otte
Jethro Runco
Brett Sandercock
Pat Silovsky
Compiler:
Chuck Otte
613 Tamerisk
Junction City, KS 66441
785-238-8800 – home, 785-223-1403 - cell
otte2@cox.net