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We had 5 intrepid birders show up for the Dinosaur NM-Jensen CBC last Saturday, despite a snowstorm that lasted most of the morning. The weather cleared up before lunch and gave us a beautiful day to finish the count. One new species was seen for this circle - a northern mockingbird at Stewart Lake Waterfowl Mgmt area. I had a Harris’s sparrow at my feeder the week of the count, but couldn’t find one inside the circle. Ditto for a couple great horned owls that had been hanging around Jensen, but hid themselves as soon as the count started. Still, we did slightly better than average with 38 species and 3138 individuals (mostly thanks to a huge flock of geese seen in fields along the Green River). The complete species list is given below.
Kathy
Canada goose 1200 Mallard 54 Blue-winged teal 13 Common goldeneye 2 Bufflehead 4 Common merganser 1 Bald eagle 12 (7 adult, 2 juvenile, 3 unspecified) Northern harrier 6 Red-tailed hawk 4 Rough-legged hawk 3 Golden eagle 4 American kestrel 7 Prairie falcon 2 Ring-necked pheasant 4 Sandhill crane 125 (feeding with the geese) Rock Dove 133 Northern flicker 10 (all red-shafted) Northern shrike 1 Say’s phoebe 1 Horned lark 333 Western scrub jay 1 Black-billed magpie 62 Common raven 4 Mountain bluebird 15 American robin 33 Northern mockingbird 1 Cedar waxwing 30 European starling 551 Am. Tree sparrow 7 Song sparrow 26 WC sparrow 20 Dark-eyed junco 91 RW blackbird 5 Western meadowlark 67 Cassin’s finch 8 House finch 122 American goldfinch 21 House sparrow 155
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