Our Great BackYard Bird Count Results
February 18, 2007 · Print This Article
My wife and I participated in the Great BackYard Bird Count this weekend, and I must say, we saw quite a few birds and had a lot of fun to boot!
We did our counts at Biddeford Pool and Cape Porpoise, Maine. The following is our tallies:
Biddeford Pool:
Number of Species: 29
All Reported: yes
Canada Goose - 27
American Black Duck - 60
Mallard - 33
Common Eider - 19
Surf Scoter - 11
White-winged Scoter - 6
Long-tailed Duck - 44
Bufflehead - 11
Common Goldeneye - 21
Common Merganser - 6
Red-breasted Merganser - 4
Common Loon - 14
Horned Grebe - 3
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Iceland Gull - 1
Great Black-backed Gull - 8
Mourning Dove - 15
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 75
Common Raven - 5
Black-capped Chickadee - 7
Tufted Titmouse - 5
European Starling - 12
Cedar Waxwing - 1
Dark-eyed Junco - 5
Northern Cardinal - 4
House Finch - 4
House Sparrow - 21
Cape Porpoise:
Number of Species: 18
All Reported: yes
Checklist:
Canada Goose - 12
American Black Duck - 25
Mallard - 4
Common Eider - 6
Long-tailed Duck - 3
Bufflehead - 5
Common Goldeneye - 9
Common Merganser - 2
Common Loon - 11
Great Black-backed Gull - 6
Mourning Dove - 6
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 2
American Crow - 15
Black-capped Chickadee - 7
Dark-eyed Junco - 1
Northern Cardinal - 2
House Finch - 6
As you can see, we had a great count! Added to the fun was some great opportunities to photograph some of the species listed above. Simply click on a thumbnail to view the full sized photo.
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Happy birding!
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Those are some great results!
John;
Thank you, we had a great time and great weather for the count.
Looks like you didn’t do too bad yourself!
John Briggs