Birds seen: West Point Lake CBC,GA./AL – 27 Dec2007
5 Common Loons
7 Pied-billed Grebes
21 Horned Grebes
32 Double-crested Cormorants
6 Great Blue Herons
3 Black Vultures
2 Turkey Vultures
1 Gadwall
3 Mallards
2 Northern Shovelers
4 Ring-necked Ducks
6 Buffleheads
2 Hooded Mergansers
1 Bald Eagles
1 Cooper’s Hawk
3 Red-tailed Hawks
3 American Coots
1 Killdeer
1 Wilson’s Snipe
5 Bonaparte’s Gulls
200Ring-billed Gulls
1 Herring Gull
6 Forster’s Terns
32 Rock Pigeons
14 Mourning Doves
2 Great Horned Owls
2 Belted Kingfishers
7 Red-bellied Woodpeckers
4 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers
1 Downy Woodpecker
2 Hairy Woodpeckers
7 Northern Flickers
2 Pileated Woodpeckers
2 Eastern Phoebes
6 Blue Jays
12 American Crows
3 Carolina Chickadees
8 Tufted Titmice
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
4 Brown-headed Nuthatches
2 Carolina Wrens
3 House Wrens
6 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
21 Eastern Bluebirds
1 Hermit Thrush
80 American Robins
2 Northern Mockingbirds
1 Brown Thrasher
4 European Starlings
7 American Pipits
21 Cedar Waxwings
13 Yellow-rumped Warblers
9 Pine Warblers
1 Common Yellowthroat
2 Eastern Towhees
31 Chipping Sparows
2 Field Sparrows
3 Song Sparrows
9 White-throated Sparrows
18 Dark-eyed Juncos
7 Northern Cardinals
210Red-winged Blackbirds
2 Eastern Meadowlarks
4 Common Grackles
2 Pine Siskins
41 American Goldfinches
6 House Sparrows
Mil;es by Car: 45+
Miles by Foot 1+
Rain in morning, light but covering all with droplets, making identification difficult.
Rain ending by 10 AM
Additional Species seen at Dusk of previous day (Count Period) at Dam
1 Northern Pintail
2 Green-winged Teal
1 Canvasback
31 Ring-necked Ducks
41 Common Goldeneyes (indicating greater numbers that on count)
65 Hooded Mergansers (Indicating greater Numbers)
94 Red-breasted Mergansers (not recorded-perhaps only stopover)(high count)
Paul Miliotis: Compiler
