Subject: Fw: [bcintbird] Penticton CBC results
Date: Dec 20 07:45:59 2000
From: WAYNE WEBER - WAYNE_WEBER at bc.sympatico.ca


Hello Birders,

I thought some of you might be interested in results from the
Penticton Christmas Bird Count. This is one of 4 CBCs in the Okanagan
Valley of BC which usually exceed 90 species. Penticton was beaten
this year by Vernon with 102 species and Kelowna with 99. The fourth
CBC in the "90 plus" group, the Oliver-Osoyoos CBC, is planned for
December 30.

Good birding and season's greetings!

Wayne Weber
Kamloops, BC
wayne_weber at bc.sympatico.ca



-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Cannings <dickcannings at home.com>
To: bcintbird <bcintbird at egroups.com>
Date: Monday, December 18, 2000 4:15 PM
Subject: [bcintbird] Penticton CBC results


>Dear Birders:
>
>Here are preliminary results of the Penticton Christmas Bird Count.
All
>numbers subject to change! Unfortunately a feeder report of a Chukar
turned
>out to be "flicker" mumbled into a message machine, and two reports
of
>grouse are both as yet unidentified. So we're stuck at 90 species.
Again,
>the most surprising thing was the lack of Bohemian Waxwings (on the
other
>hand, Cedars have been getting commoner over the last decade).
Bluebirds
>and solitaires were both in good, but not record high numbers. Robin
>numbers have been adjusted down from 3589 reported. The species
total of 90
>does not include the Mandarin Duck (part of the feral Naramata
>population--or maybe all of it!).
>
>If anyone is interested in helping out on the Oliver-Osoyoos count
(Dec. 30)
>or Vaseux Lake (Jan. 1) please send me an email.
>
>Dick Cannings
>dickcannings at home.com
>
>PENTICTON CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT
>17 December 2000
>
>Common Loon 8
>Pied-billed Grebe 17
>Horned Grebe 64
>Red-necked Grebe 10
>Western Grebe 50
>Great Blue Heron 9
>Tundra Swan 3
>Canada Goose 1847
>Canada Goose minima 2
>Mandarin Duck 1
>Mallard 2295
>Gadwall 22
>American Wigeon 219 (high)
>Northern Shoveler 1
>Canvasback 24
>Redhead 2200
>Ring-necked Duck 15
>Greater Scaup 274
>Common Goldeneye 87
>Bufflehead 87
>Hooded Merganser 32
>Common Merganser 7
>Bald Eagle: adult 15
>Bald Eagle: immature 2
>Northern Harrier 4
>Sharp-shinned Hawk 11
>Cooper's Hawk 7
>Northern Goshawk 4
>Accipiter, sp. 2
>Red-tailed Hawk 23
>Rough-legged Hawk 6 (high)
>Buteo, sp. 1
>Golden Eagle: adult 5
>Golden Eagle: immature 1
>American Kestrel 14
>Merlin 6
>Ring-necked Pheasant 76
>grouse, sp. 3
>California Quail 2603
>American Coot 1500
>Killdeer 2
>Ring-billed Gull 92
>California Gull 1
>Herring Gull 17
>Thayer's Gull 1
>Glaucous-winged Gull 9
>gull, sp. 185
>Rock Dove 539 (high)
>Mourning Dove 48 (high)
>Great Horned Owl 2
>Northern Pygmy-Owl 1
>Boreal Owl 1
>Northern Saw-whet Owl 1
>Belted Kingfisher 10
>Lewis' Woodpecker 5
>Downy Woodpecker 23
>Hairy Woodpecker 16
>N. (Red-shafted) Flicker 338
>N. (Yellow-shafted) Flicker 1
>Pileated Woodpecker 6
>Steller's Jay 110
>Blue Jay 1
>Clark's Nutcracker 31
>Black-billed Magpie 430
>American Crow 114
>Common Raven 782 (high)
>Black-capped Chickadee 146
>Mountain Chickadee 146
>Red-breasted Nuthatch 40
>White-breasted Nuthatch 17
>Pygmy Nuthatch 168
>Brown Creeper 2
>Canyon Wren 4
>Winter Wren 3
>American Dipper 8
>Golden-crowned Kinglet 22
>Western Bluebird 62
>Townsend's Solitaire 33
>American Robin 2893 (very high)
>Varied Thrush 3
>Cedar Waxwing 68
>Northern Shrike 5
>European Starling 5948 (high)
>Spotted Towhee 3
>Song Sparrow 224
>White-crowned Sparrow 24
>Dark-eyed (Sc) Junco 8
>Dark-eyed (Ore) Junco 1071
>Red-winged Blackbird 9
>Brewer's Blackbird 6 (high)
>Cassin's Finch 101
>House Finch 1619
>Red Crossbill 139
>Common Redpoll 4
>Pine Siskin 15
>American Goldfinch 269
>Evening Grosbeak 1
>House Sparrow 338
>
>TOTAL INDIVIDUALS 27722
>TOTAL SPECIES 90
>OBSERVERS 47
>Parties (max) 21
>Parties (min) 19
>Party-hours (foot) 86
>Party-hours (car) 60
>Party-miles (foot) 93.5
>Party-miles (car) 388
>Feeder-watchers 20
>
>
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