GBBC Bird Counts for Saturday Feb. 13

How are your numbers today?

The birds have been staying away in droves for the past few days! Hiya! I'm new to the forum!

Crows 3
Cardinals 4
Cooper's Hawk 1 (could be a big factor in the lack of birds)
Blue Jay 7
Mourning Dove 7
Junco 3
Chickadee 3
House sparrows 20 (figures)
Tufted Titmouse 1
Goldfinch 2
American Tree Sparrow 1
Northern Flicker 1
Downy 1
Wild Turkey (female? don't usually see them in my yard)

Welcome to the forum ssmith! Love your Turkey pic!

Hi ssmith...nice turkey shot!

I had time to watch for a much longer time this morning. I didn't really get a larger number of birds but I did get more species. I had 16 Species today. Counted from 8:30am - 12pm

MourningDoves 8
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1 - Glad it showed up!! :)
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 4
Carolina Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
European Starling 25
American Tree Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 4
Northern Cardinal 10
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 1

This message was edited Feb 13, 2010 7:20 PM

Only counted for 1 hour yesterday but today we went to the lake and stayed for 2 1/2 hours.

Checklist:
Canada Goose - 4
Wood Duck - 5
Mallard - 7
Ring-necked Duck - 1
Lesser Scaup - 3
Pied-billed Grebe - 2
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove - 2
Mourning Dove - 14
Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 1
Blue Jay - 12
American Crow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 6
Tufted Titmouse - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
American Robin - 25
Northern Mockingbird - 3
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 40
Cedar Waxwing - 22
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6
Chipping Sparrow - 7
Field Sparrow - 1
Fox Sparrow - 6
Song Sparrow - 5
White-throated Sparrow - 23
Dark-eyed Junco - 21
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) - 24
Northern Cardinal - 30
Red-winged Blackbird - 3
Common Grackle - 20
Brown-headed Cowbird - 27
House Finch - 29
American Goldfinch - 40
House Sparrow - 11

I would love to participate...but do have a question.

How do I know that the birds I am counting are not the same ones that keep coming back? LOL

Anyhow...here the types I had today.

Bluebirds
Cardinals
Tufted Titmouse
House Sparrows
Grackles
Crows
RH Woodpeckers
Robins
Wrens
Goldfinch
Doves
Crows

AND, OF COURSE, SQUIRRELS !!!!!

I am still new to indentifying but I am learning. All of my feeders are on my 2nd story deck and were put up a fews yrs ago to keep my cats entertained.

My husband and I have grown to love watching and are amused by the various personalities that these birds have.

We now have a bird book with great pictures.....hopefully in the future I can be more precise in identification.

I really enjoy reading this particular forum. The pictures are just wonderful!

I have, in the past, asked questions in this forum. They were promply answered with friendliness and warmth. I wish to thank you all for making me feel welcome.

carole

Hi Carole, It's just the highest number you see at one time. So if at one time you see 10 Robins and no more than 10 than thats your final count.

I had a Coopers hawk in and out of the yard today which was impeding my count! But here goes for today:

Red bellied woodpecker-2
Flicker-1
Hairy woodpecker-4
Downy woodpecker-3
White breasted nuthatch-2
Red breasted nuthatch-1
Black capped chickadee-6
Tufted titmouse-8
Mourning doves-14
Goldfinch-21
Crow-3
Blue jay-3
Eastern bluebird-4
Hermit thrush-1 (unusual visitor!)
Carolina wren-2
House sparrow-2
Robin-1
Junco-5
Song sparrow-2
Cardinal-2

And one Coopers hawk

Wow, nanny....a pileated! Lucky you!!!

Nice variety sacar! I didn't have as many different birds today as yesterday.

European Starlings 11
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-throated Sparrow 4
Mourning Doves 5
Northern Cardinal 11
Blue Jay 2
House Finch 10
Common Grackle 4
American Robin 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Canada Geese 4
Dark-eyed Junco 27

Wow, y'all have some great variety. I'm wondering where my regular birds have gone. The mockingbirds, for example, have been in my pyracantha every day except yesterday and today -- not a one! Carolina Wren didn't show up today either.

This is what I had though:
Blue Jays - 6
Red-bellied Woodpeckers -- 2
White-winged Doves -- 25
Mourning Doves -- 6
House Sparrows -- 11
Common Grackles -- 65
Great-tailed Grackles -- 5
Cardinals -- 2
Robin -- 1
Starlings -- 2
Red-winged Blackbirds -- 33
Downy Woodpecker -- 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet -- 1
American Goldfinch -- 9
Hawk -- either a Coopers or Sharp-shinned -- have it on the ID forum but haven't gotten an answer yet. What do you think?


This message was edited Feb 13, 2010 6:59 PM

Nice collection everyone!! Approx: 1 hr. count from the patio.

American Robin- 6
American Goldfinch- 1
Cooper's Hawk- 2 looked like some courting was going on. (spring is coming) :)
Starlings- 12
Brown-headed Cowbird's- 11
Common Grackle- 40+
Northern Cardinal- 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch- 1
White-breasted Nuthatch- 2
Dark-eyed Junco- 12
Bald Eagle-1
Red-tailed Hawk- 1
Canada Geese- 50+
Ring-billed Gull's- 15
House Sparrow- 10
House Finch- 50+
Mourning Dove- 1
Common Crow- 8
Downy Woodpecker- 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker- 1

I seen more Horned Lark's than all the total of my count, any where there was a corn field they were right along side of the road. Easily over 300... if you don't have one on your list and have corn field's in your area, take a ride..I know a lot of you have a lot of snow like me... so condition's are right for seeing them along the roads.

Nice Burd. I went looking yesterday morning. Lots of sun, so I was all excited. nuthin. a few tree sparrows and juncos along the road though.

Nice assortment Burd!

Elphaba, I know what you mean about the Mockingbird. Same thing here.

Wow, Burd. That must be some patio...what a great assortment!

I had to go to the Bird Store in the next town because I ran through 50 pounds of Black Oil Sunflower Seed in less than 7 days!

Saw these birds over there.

Mallard 2
Canada Geese 28
Turkey Vulture 2
Carolina Chickadee 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Northern Cardinal 5
White-throated Sparrow 3
House Sparrow 4

Whoops, wrong thread, should have been on the 14th.

This message was edited Feb 14, 2010 12:18 PM

wow. lots of seed!

Here is my count for Saturday...except for the Kingfisher and Flickers they were all counted on the farm.

Bald Eagle 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Kestrel 1
Mourning Dove 15
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 5
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 5
Tufted Titmouse 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 2
Eastern Bluebird 6
American Robin 7
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 23
American Tree Sparrow 2
Fox Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 5
White-crowned Sparrow 23
Dark-eyed Junco 8
Northern Cardinal 27
Red-winged Blackbird 53
Eastern Meadowlark 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 46
Purple Finch 32
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 189
House Sparrow 13
Cedar Waxwings 29

The crazy birds are eating over 25 pounds of Sunflower seeds per day plus tons of thistle and other specialty seeds. I am not complaining...in 2007/2008 they were eating 50 pounds a day!! I have a sweet husband who does not complain...he's askeered of me!! LOL!

This message was edited Feb 15, 2010 2:29 PM

189?

OMG

Ha...now you know why I only counted them on one day! Luckily most of them were on the feeders but I know there were lots in the trees that I missed. Those little pigs are eating about 10 pounds of thistle seed a day...please don't tell DH!!

that's just crazy. I can just imagine the sound.

OMG 189 Goldfinch??? Now I know where their at. LOL

that has to be insane!!! I like them but I don't want that many! I would like some of those Purple Finch .....

Year before last we had 212...geez they are everywhere. They empty these socks plus five other thistle feeders almost everyday! For some reason the finches love it here.

I'll take the kingfishers. the bluebirds would be welcome here to eat, but they have to stay away for breeding because the house sparrows would be too dangerous.

and do you see those numbers all year?

The Gold and Purple play well together!

that's because gold and purple are on the opposite sides of the color wheel. complimentary colors!

The Goldfinch will almost disappear during breeding season and then start coming back again. Then they seem to migrate south and I think we get a whole new batch for winter. I would have to stop feeding if they were like this all year long. Also in the summer months there is lots of natural feed for them.

Nice collection all! 189? Now that's a lot of Goldfinch's!

So that's where all the goldfinches have gone! I've never had anywhere near that many but I usually have 30+. This year, my biggest number was 15. Guess they like your house better than mine.