Location: Turkey Point
Observation date: 1/4/10
Notes: Cumberland CBC. Pete Dunne, Don Freiday, Linda Dunne, Beth Ciuzio. 2 hours, 2 miles owling. 8 hours 10 miles on foot; 1 hour 10 miles by car (ebirded 10 total). Sustained gale 20-30 with gusts to 50, temps in 20's.
Number of species: 69
Snow Goose 20
Canada Goose 200
Mute Swan 15
Tundra Swan 6
Gadwall 12
American Black Duck 50
Mallard 30
Green-winged Teal 3
Lesser Scaup 2
Bufflehead 40
Hooded Merganser 25
Common Merganser 204 frozen out from north undoubtedly
Red-breasted Merganser 2
Ruddy Duck 6
Great Blue Heron 39 some moribund
Great Egret 1 could fly
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Black Vulture 8 roosting with turkey vultures on maple ave
Turkey Vulture 15
Bald Eagle 8
Northern Harrier 45
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 5
Peregrine Falcon 1
Clapper Rail 1
Virginia Rail 3
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Dunlin 28
Short-billed Dowitcher 1 actually a dowitcher sp.
American Woodcock 1
Ring-billed Gull 30
Herring Gull 1000
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Eastern Screech-Owl 2
Great Horned Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 3
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 12
Blue Jay 15
American Crow 12
Carolina Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 8
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 10
Winter Wren 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Hermit Thrush 6
American Robin 400
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 5
Brown Thrasher 8
European Starling 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 80
Eastern Towhee 1
Savannah Sparrow 3
Fox Sparrow 8
Song Sparrow 12
Swamp Sparrow 6
White-throated Sparrow 275
Northern Cardinal 15
Red-winged Blackbird 250
Eastern Meadowlark 16
Rusty Blackbird 1
Boat-tailed Grackle 150
