Date: 1/14/25 12:25 pm From: Brian Bockhahn (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Jan 2 Kerr lake CBC results
Jan 2, 2025 was the 22nd Kerr Lake Christmas Bird Count under clear skies, cold temperatures 29 to 43 and a steady west wind 8-13 mph making for quite the wind chill.
7 observers in 5 parties tallied 90 species, a tad below our average of 93 species (high 103)
Several good species were tallied, but this count circle excels at that, so our 6th Common Merganser, 13th Red-throated Loon, 8th Pacific Loon and 6th Palm Warbler were our regular rarities!
The cold froze out some waterbirds filling our miss list: Wood Duck, American Wigeon, Ring-necked Duck, Greater Scaup, American Coot, Lesser or Greater Black-backed Gull, Merlin, Blue-headed Vireo, Fish Crow, White-crowned Sparrow, Common Grackle, Purple Finch and Pine Siskin.
We set a couple of high counts with 11 Horned Lark and 200 Brown-headed Cowbird.
Low counts include 153 Canada Goose, 1 American Black Duck, 3 Mallard, 18 Rock Pigeon, 13 Cedar Waxwing, 2 Pine Warbler and 2 Fox Sparrow, but with the weather I'm glad we got the few of each we did so no complaints!
