[cobirds] Penrose CBC results -- 12/21/14

Hi everyone,

First, a huge thank you to all the participants.  We have a great set of people every year and they always out do themselves and I can't thank them enough!

And again, they did it this year.  We were able to set a new high for the Penrose count with 129 species.  We had only one big miss on the day being Northern Harrier.  There had been and still may be a Red-headed Woodpecker in the circle but it is typically in an inaccessible area.  Other species that were in the area a week earlier were:  Surf Scoter, Harris's Sparrow, Yellow-headed Blackbird and Rusty Blackbird.

We added one new species to the count that Rich Miller had found a couple weeks prior, GREEN HERON.  Other notable species for this count:

Snow Goose

Ross's Goose

Ruddy Duck

Eared Grebe

Western Grebe

Peregrine Falcon

Sandhill Crane 

Williamsons's Sapsucker - 2

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Black Phoebe

Say's Phoebe

Both Shrikes

PACIFIC WREN

Winter Wren

Nothern Mockingbird

Sage Thrasher

Rufous-crowned Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Common Grackle

Great-tailed Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Thank you again to everyone who helps out on their local and not so local Christmas Bird Counts!

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Mark Peterson
Colorado Springs