Brownsmead Raptor Count
Nov 07, 2001 0845-1000hr

The weather was clear with frost and ice on the roadway.

There were quite a few AMERICAN KESTRELS around today,
perhaps a migratory wave.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Greater White-fronted Goose 2
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Greater Scaup
White-tailed Kite 2
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 5
Red-tailed Hawk 7
American Kestrel 4
Long-billed Dowitcher 9
Common Snipe 1
Ring-billed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
House Sparrow

Total number of species seen: 41

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