Date: 11/9/26 4:22 am From: Pam Hunt <biodiva63...> Subject: [NHBirds] Re: CNC Final Results
Greetings all, and apologies if you get this twice. Not everyone on my Concord list is on the NH Birds Google Group, so I'm covering all bases.
This weekend was the 19th "Concord November Challenge," a two-day collective effort to find as many species as possible in the city limits over the first full weekend of November. This year roughly 20 people fanned out across Concord, even in the persistent drizzle/rain on Saturday, and we were rewarded with a new record high of 94 species. Typically, when the CNC falls this late we have fewer species, but the warm weather leading up to this year's event certainly helped, as did the rain in terms of goronding some fun waterbirds.
Highlights as follows:
A nice afternoon showing of waterbirds at Long Pond: Surf and black Scoters, Long-tailed Ducks, and 3 Bonaparte's Gulls (the latter new for the CNC. Three species of shorebirds on the same patch of mud at Turtle Pond: Killdeer, Wilson's Snipe, and Greater Yellowlegs Second ever records: Black Vulture (Penacook), Eastern Screech-Owl (West Locke Road), and Orange-crowned Warbler (Birch Street Gardens)
Also of note were Ruffed Grouse (7th), Osprey (6th), Eastern Phoebe 7th), Fish Crow (5th), and Pine Warbler (3rd)
Notable misses were Common Goldeneye, Merlin, Field Sparrow, and Palm Warbler, all of which have been recorded on at least 10 of the previous 18 CNCs. you can never get them all!
Thanks again to all of you who helped out, but keep on birding for the November County Challenge - go Merrimack!!
