Date: 12/21/25 2:11 pm From: Pam Hunt <biodiva63...> Subject: [NHBirds] Rye North on coastal CBC
Happy Solstice!
As others have already reported, yesterday was the Seacoast CBC, on which Unity and I cover the area east of Route 1 and between Rye Harbor and Odiorne.
We ended up with 59 species. Nothing terribly noteworthy except the RC Kinglets (see below), and as Steve noted numbers of landbirds were low. Because this territory has shifted around and been subdivided over the years I don't have easy comparisons to the past, but comments are provided in the list below:
Canada Goose 28 Mallard 77 American Black Duck 8 Common Eider 41 Surf Scoter 93 White-winged Scoter 19 Black Scoter 10 Long-tailed Duck 21 Bufflehead 8 Common Goldeneye 33 Hooded Merganser 9 Common Merganser 1 Red-breasted Merganser 28 Wild Turkey 1 Rock Pigeon 6 Mourning Dove 9 Black Guillemot 1 (almost the last bird of the day - in the fading light from south of Odiorne Ring-billed Gull 2 American Herring Gull 86 Great Black-backed Gull 2 (geeting scarce on the CBC in this area in the last few years) Red-necked Grebe 14 Horned Grebe 18 (seemed a bit more common than usual) Red-throated Loon 6 (also more common than usual - twice inthe last month I've been down at Plum Island and had double-digits from Parking Lot #1) Common Loon 14 Great Cormorant 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Bald Eagle 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 (with the compilation cancelled, I had a bit of extra time for owling, and this little guy was in a usual spot along Bracket Road) Northern Saw-whet Owl 1 (opted out of serious owling due to the morning wind, but my first bird of the day was this one from a stand of hemlocks at Sea Glass Lane in Rye) Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Downy Woodpecker 12 Hairy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 9 (very low, making me wonder how locally patchy the acorn crop has been) American Crow 31 Common Raven 1 Black-capped Chickadee 29 (extremely low, and we spent a LOT of time walking in various wooded areas in the interior of Rye) Tufted Titmouse 13 Horned Lark 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 (one at Chat Cove at Odiorne, and a second at Seavey Acres Conservation Area in Rye) Golden-crowned Kinglet 8 White-breasted Nuthatch 9 Brown Creeper 1 Carolina Wren 3 European Starling 47 Northern Mockingbird 1 (alonst missed, which makes no sense at all) American Robin 0 (they defintely cleared out in December, as did waxwings) Eastern Bluebird 17 House Sparrow 45 House Finch 72 American Goldfinch 53 American Tree Sparrow 2 (hard to find) Dark-eyed Junco 60 White-throated Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 10 Red-winged Blackbird 11 Northern Cardinal 17
