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Jordan Lake CBC, 1/2/00
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Jordan Lake CBC, 1/2/00
- From: Bfarrroth@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:49:00 EST
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
C-birders: The Jordan Lake count is now posted on Birdsource for your
perusal. We had 92 species that day, and 17,336 individuals, approximately;
both of these numbers are about average for counts the past 10 years. Of
interest thougth was the fact that we had 17 high species counts. These
included Horned Grebe, DC Cormorant. Bald Eagle, American Coot, Killdeer,
Red-bellied Woodpecker, YB Sapsucker, Downy Woodpecker, Flicker,
White-breasted Nuthatch, Carolina and Winter Wrens, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher,
Eastern Bluebird, Hermit Thrush, YR Warbler, and Red Crossbill. The Red
Crossbills were the most interesting bird of the day. They have been
reported on only one previous count, that time at Ebenezer Campground, where
they had been seen 2 weeks before. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is not as unusual
as one might think. We have been seeing them at 2 or 3 year intervals since
1982, the first year that the lake was full. In 1982 2 were reported, then 1
each in 84, 86, and 90, a CW in 91, 2 in 93, 1 in 96, and now 2. The
observers described them well. Although 2 parties (including Doug Shadwick)
thought they heard Fish Crows, they were uncertain, and did not report it on
their forms. I would be very much interested to see if others have neard
them locally at this time of year; they usually do not appear here until
around March.
Too bad the WS Flycatcher was not discovered until 2 weeks after the
count, but maybe that will provide an incentive for future Count Week
explorations. It was a great beginning for the year Y2K.
Barbara Roth, compiler, with Norman Budnitz, co-compiler for NCJL