[cobirds] Pueblo CBC 12/23 results

Hi all,

A big thanks to the 12 birders, who helped with this years Pueblo CBC (the circle is east of Pueblo, and includes the towns of Blende and Vineland, as well as Roselawn Cemetery, South Road Pond, Runyon Lake, Lake Minnequa, CF&I Lakes (private), Comanche Power Plant (private), Huerfano Reservoir (dry), parts of the Arkansas River and Fountain Creek, and the Pueblo Airport.  The count was on Tuesday, 23 Dec 2014.  

A total of 109 species and nearly 100,000 birds were counted (thanks to the large numbers of Red-winged Blackbirds, European Starlings, Eurasian Collared-Doves, both white and dark geese, American Robins, and other birds).  The previous record for species was 108, and this is only the 3rd time this CBC has reached the 100 species mark.

New species for the count were:  Zone-tailed Hawk (if accepted by the CBRC and the CBC Regional Editor team), Pine Warbler (photographed), and Hermit Thrush.

Other highlights: 

Snow Goose (white form) 8140

    Snow Goose (blue form) 302 

Ross's Goose 803

Tundra Swan 1

Greater Scaup 5

Long-tailed Duck 1

Red-breasted Merganser 14

Ruddy Duck 36

Eared Grebe 1

Western Grebe 4

Clark's Grebe 2

Double-crested Cormorant 4

Bald Eagle 1

Ferruginous Hawk 1

Rough-legged Hawk 2

Merlin 5 

Sora 2

Sandhill Crane 24

California Gull 1

Lesser Black-backed Gull 2

White-winged Dove 1

Mourning Dove 1 

Barn Owl 1

Lewis's Woodpecker 1 

Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1 

Hairy Woodpecker 2

Say's Phoebe 1

Loggerhead Shrike 1

Chihuahuan Raven count week

Mountain Chickadee 41 

Bushtit 20

Red-breasted Nuthatch 5 

Brown Creeper 4 

Winter Wren 1 

Marsh Wren 1

Golden-crowned Kinglet 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7 

Western Bluebird 4 

Mountain Bluebird 1 

Townsend's Solitaire 3 

Spotted Towhee 1 

Canyon Towhee 1 

Swamp Sparrow 1 

White-throated Sparrow 1 

Lapland Longspur 1

Rusty Blackbird 1 

Great-tailed Grackle 2 

Brown-headed Cowbird 38 

Cassin's Finch 2 

Brandon Percival 

Compiler of the Pueblo CBC
Pueblo West, CO