Hi

There was a posting summarizing the Ladner Count posted on December 28th.



The total species seen on count day has now been confirmed at 140 including
the Gyrfalcon which was not seen by the team in the area on the day but was
confirmed by the area leader in talking to a falconer who saw the bird on
the day of the count. There was one Count Period species - the Glaucous
Gull.



Here are some highlights from the Ladner Christmas Bird Count (covering most
of Delta, a chunk of Richmond, plus Point Roberts, WA), which was held on
December 27.



The weather was better than predicted, with mild temperatures and only brief
afternoon showers, rather than the downpour that was forecast. The main
drawback was strong southerly winds (up to 30 or 35 km/hr) for much of the
day, but even these dropped off by mid-afternoon.



.Some noteworthy species were as follows:



* Black-crowned Night-Heron- 4 (Reifel Bird Sanctuary)

* American Bittern-6 (3 at Reifel, 3 at Brunswick Point)

* Mute Swan-6 (Westham I. bridge and vicinity)

* Redhead-1 drake (Lily Point, Point Roberts)

* Sandhill Crane-6 (Reifel)

* Willet-1 (Tsawwassen ferry jetty)

* Black Oystercatcher-4 (Tsawwassen jetty)

* Snowy Owl-- 24 (17 along Boundary Bay, mostly near 72nd Street; 7
in the Brunswick Point area and southward along the dike)

* American Tree Sparrow-- 3 (2 at Brunswick Point)

* Swamp Sparrow-- 2 (Reifel)

* Snow Bunting-- 2 (Tsawwassen jetty)



The Ladner count is organized and compiled by Jude Grass. Jude, if you have
any corrections or additions to these highlights, please pass them along!



If you would like a copy of the matrix which show each area totals and count
totals please email me.



Jude Grass

Ladner CBC Coordinator

604 538 8774

judegrass at shaw.ca





-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:10 PM
To: bcvanbirds at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bcvanbirds] Ladner CBC



Hi

I find it a real shame, that i can read about Canada's leading

Christmas Bird Count on an Alberta website and also on a Washington

State website, but do not see anything posted to this Vancouver site,

even though the compiler is a member of this group.

What is going on in Vancouver, is the birding community over there in

such a state, that even the highlites of a Christmas Count can't be

posted?????



C'mon folks this is birding not politics, lets share a bit more.



Derrick Marven

Duncan











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