Date: 1/14/25 12:23 pm From: Brian Bockhahn (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Dec 22 Mayo River CBC results
Mayo River, Rockingham County, NC
The 13th annual Mayo River CBC was held on Sunday December 22, 2025 under clear skies, a frigid cold start of 17 degrees and warming to 35. With the cold front it was a nice day for windshield birding.
11 counters in the field and two feeder counters found an amazing 77 species (above our 13 year average of 73 and just under our record of 78!)
Thanks for using the ebird trip report, it's neat to peruse the data and see what was seen where and the map really shows our coverage of the area. Service is spotty in parts of the circle, but it was really cool to see the totals go up as checklists got submitted.
Some goodies include our first ever SNOW GOOSE, a single bird found before the count by the Woods at Farris lake, hanging out with the usual flock of Canadas. our 2nd ever Red-breasted Merganser and 1st HORNED LARK were at the Irving road wonderful habitats, our second MERLIN was seen over Mayo River Road, newly added to the state park! The 3rd ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen in the main mayo park, and our 3rd RUSTY BLACKBIRD was seen at Stoneville Park, yeay for coverage!!!
Misses include Northern Bobwhite, Sharp-shinned Hawk, American Woodcock (froze out of usual spots??), Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gulll and Fish Crow (landfill usually), House Wren, Gray Catbird, American Pipit, Red-winged Blackbird and Brown-headed Cowbird.
We set high counts with 4 Bald Eagle (Avalon mill nest, and there must be a second nest up by confluence probably the offspring of the Avalon pair), 15 Red-tailed Hawk, 13 Hairy Woodpecker, 438 American Crow, 191 Chipping Sparrow, 206 White-tailed Sparrow (really?), 35 Eastern Meadowlark, 9 Purple Finch.
