Sunday December 19th~ 1999
Compiled by Stan Riggs and Jim Wolford
89 species seen plus one probable escapee
+ one hybrid
+ 5 CWs
+ 9 ACWs,
for 103 wild bird species.
{CW Count Week (Dec. 16-22);
ACW = After Count Week.}
| Species | TOTAL # |
| Great Blue Heron | 2 |
| Mute Swan (not wild) | (1) |
| CanadaGoose | 131 |
| Green-winged Teal | 14 |
| American Black Duck | 3317 |
| Mallard | 651 |
| Am Black X Mallard Hybrid | (1) |
| Tufted Duck | CW |
| Black Scoter | 17 |
| Surf Scoter | 6 |
| White-winged Scoter | 1 |
| Common Goldeneye | 27 |
| Barrow’s Goldeneye | 1 |
| Common Merganser | 36 |
| Red-breasted Merganser | 4 |
| Turkey Vulture | 1 |
| Bald Eagle TOTAL | 254 |
| ….adult | 98 |
| ….immature | 121 |
| ….unknown | 35 |
| Northern Harrier | 12 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 10 |
| Northern Goshawk | 2 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 137 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 7 |
| American Kestrel | 2 |
| Merlin | 7 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 1 |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | 257 |
| Ruffed Grouse | 5 |
| American Coot | 3 |
| Killdeer | 6 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 1 |
| Ring-billed Gull | 281 |
| Herring Gull | 4981 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 789 |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 2 |
| Iceland Gull | 8 |
| Glaucous Gull | cw |
| Murre sp. | 4 |
| Rock Dove | 910 |
| Mourning Dove | 1089 |
| Great Homed Owl | 1 |
| Barred Owl | 3 |
| Short-eared Owl | 1 |
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | 1 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 2 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 102 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 52 |
| Northern Flicker | 29 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 5 |
| Black-backed Woodpecker | 1 |
| Horned Lark | 79 |
| Gray Jay | 4 |
| Blue Jay | 831 |
| American Crow | 19793 |
| Common Raven | 381 |
| Black-capped Chickadee | 1225 |
| Boreal Chickadee | 16 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 62 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 52 |
| Brown Creeper | 11 |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | 118 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 1 |
| American Robin | 65 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 17 |
| Bohemian Waxwing | 1785 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 195 |
| Northern Shrike | 4 |
| European Starling | 20034 |
| YeIIow-rumped Warbler | CW |
| Yeiow-throated Warbler | CW |
| Pine Warbler | 1 |
| Warbler sp. * | 1 |
| Northern Cardinal | 8 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | CW |
| Chipping Sparrow | 1 |
| American Tree Sparrow | 331 |
| Dark-eyed Junco | 1697 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 9 |
| Fox Sparrow | 1 |
| Song Sparrow | 81 |
| Swamp Sparrow | 2 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 22 |
| White-crowned Sparrow | 1 |
| SnowBunting | 107 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 12 |
| Common Grackle | 2 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 16 |
| Pine Grosbeak | 20 |
| Purple Finch | 30 |
| House Finch | 3 |
| Red Crossbill | 15 |
| White-winged Crossbill | 10 |
| Common Redpoll | 4511 |
| Pine Siskin | 77 |
| American Goldfinch | 774 |
| Evening Grosbeak | 226 |
| House Sparrow | 1403 |
* seen by Peter Smith at old Wolfville Hospital, and was either a Connecticut, Mourning, Kentucky or ??, with yellow underparts and dark back
Total number of birds sighted: 67,207
Species seen during count week (CW) Dec.16-22nd: Tufted Duck, Glaucous Gull, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Species seen after count week (ACW) to Jan. 23rd 2000: Northern Pintail, Red Knot, Snowy Owl, Red-bellied Woodpecker, American Pipit, Gray-cheeked or Bicknell’s Thrush, Yellow-breasted Chat, Rusty Blackbird, Lapland Longspur.
Field Observers (Bush Beaters) – 50 birders in 23 field parties. George Alliston, Patricia Bernier, Char Bishop, Sue Bissix, Sherman Boates, Larry Bogan, Silas Bondrup-Nielsen, Soren Bondrup-Nielsen, Mike Boudreau, Peggy Crawford, Andy Davis, Mark Elderkin, Annie Ferraro, Trina Fitzgerald, George E. Forsyth, Harold Forsyth, Bernard Forsythe, Glenys Gibson, Jamie Gibson, Merritt Gibson, Carma Gjerdrum, Tracy Harsmen, Matt Holder, Mark Johnston, Andrea Kingsley, Meg Krawchuk, Angus MacLean, Tern & Randy Milton, Dawn Miner, Joe Nocera, Mike O’Brien, Mick O’Neill, Ian Paterson, Stan Riggs, Barry Sabean, Meg Scheid, Peter Smith, Brian Starzomski, Richard Stern, Art Steward, Fran Steward, Phil Taylor, Sonja Teichert, Brenda & Bill Thexton, Gerry Trueman, Sherman Williams, Jim Wolford, Barry Yoe II.
Feeder-Watchers (some overlap with above) – 74 feeders, 89 feeder- watchers, 124 hours of watching -46 species observed: Agar Adamson, Jim Amos, Diana Anderson, Peter Austin-Smith, Diana Bishop, Sherman Bleakney, Sharon Borden, Carol & Ron Buckley, Dick Cain, Mary Ellen Carpenter, Lana Churchill (25 species), Sandy Connelly, Ed Connolly, Susan & Chris Cox (feeder + Starr’s Pt.), Debbie & Jim Daigle, Pat Davis, Pat Dix, Ev Eagles, Joan Eaton, Paul Elderkni, Wendy Elliott, Mary Ellis, Bob Flecknell, George F. Forsyth, Mary Sue Goulding, Ed Hancock, Charlotte Harper, Eileen Harris & Ron Margeson, Sharon & Luke & Robert Harris, Lorna Hart, Avril & John Harwood, Blanche Healy, Gail Herbin, Bob Home, Isobel Horton, Winnie & John Horton, Sandy Kempton, Linda Lusby & Peter Smith, Shirley & Don Marston, Pat & Bill Martell, Jessie Martin, Eleanor & Bernard Mason, Sheila McCurdy (2 feeders), Ruth Murphy, Terry Murphy, Edna Mutch, Gary Ness, Nancy Nickerson, Linda & Terry Pearson, Dorothy Perkin, Janet Pratt, Mary Pratt, Tom Regan, Ladny Richmond & i.P. Huang, Gordon Robart, Benita Rogers, Marg Russell, Linda Sacouman, Gladys Saltzman, Kathy Schaffner, Ruth & Jack Scott, Mabel Sheffield, David Silverberg (2 feeders), Merriam Sullivan, Dianne Thorpe, Jean Timpa, David Tracy, Gerry Trueman, Eva & Deanna & Walter Urban (29 species), Don Wright, Betty Yoell, Sheila & Earl Young.