Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Mactaquac Christmas Bird Count

Mactaquac Count 1 January 2016

Eleven capable birders braved the winter weather and spent New Years Day surveying the bird population of the Mactaquac area.  The 24-km circle covers the area from Keswick to Granite Hill and French Village to above Kings Landing. 

Thank you to the many loyal people who feed birds in the area for keeping their feeders well stocked.  Also thank you for allowing us to come into your farms and dooryards to tally the birds present.

We had just over 1000 more birds than last year and one species less.  Finch numbers were low in spite of the large amount of fruit and cones present.  It may mean that we will have a finch invasion later this winter.  There were few raptors and the waterfowl numbers were low.  That could be because there was so much open water below the dam on which they could disperse.  

The two most interesting birds seen (for me) were the Red-bellied Woodpecker and the Northern Saw-whet.  The Red-bellied was at a feeder in Mactaquac and the Saw-whet was seen in the Upper Kingclear area.




Mactaquac Christmas Bird Count


2015


Jan. 1, 2016


Compiler Beverley Schneider












Species
Zone 1
Zone 2
Zone 3
Zone 4
Zone 5
Zone 6
Total








Am Black Duck
30




4
34
Mallard



7


7
Common Goldeneye
22




9
31
Barrow's Goldeneye




1

1
Common Merganser
10




17
27
Common Loon





1
1
Cooper’s Hawk





1
1
Bald Eagle
3

1
1
1
9
15
Herring Gull
4




3
7
Great Black-backed Gull
1




11
12
Rock Pigeon
5
31

162
8
11
217
Mourning Dove
22

20
26
2
9
79
Northern Saw-whet Owl


1



1
Downy Woodpecker
1
1
5
10

1
18
Hairy Woodpecker


5
7

2
14
Pileated Woodpecker


3

1

4
Red-bellied Woodpecker



1


1
Gray Jay


1

1

2
Blue Jay
7
5
16
24
9
10
71
American Crow
20
13
20
25
102
21
201
Common Raven
3
6
6
13
6
4
38
Black-capped Chickadee
14
15
56
60
10
57
212
Red-breasted Nuthatch
3

27
14
1
5
50
White-breasted Nuthatch


4


4
8
Brown Creeper


1



1
European Starling
5

58
32
107
27
229
American Tree Sparrow


1
12
39
15
67
Song Sparrow
4


2
1

7
White-throated Sparrow



1


1
Dark-eyed Junco
15
6
11
53
7
18
110
Northern Cardinal
2





2
Snow Bunting
7


11


18
Purple Finch


4



4
White-winged Crossbill


1



1
Common Redpoll




10

10
Pine Siskin

17


50

67
American Goldfinch
24
7
48
57

40
176
Evening Grosbeak


2



2













Total birds

1747





No. species

38

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