The species list for the the Concord CBC’s 52nd winter bird count has been compiled. You may download it from our Results page.
January 2nd greeted us with a blustery and bare, snowless landscape—what one might expect in late November—yet delivered 9 species record high counts and a few lows, too. Lakes and ponds were not yet capped with ice, so ducks were aplenty. Turkey Vultures showed up by the score and Blue Jays all but vanished; American Coots, which typically don’t make our tally sheets, shot up nearly two-and-a-half times the historic record and most of the American Tree Sparrows we expected did not make it south to be counted this year. A single American Pipit appeared in 1990; after a paucity of pipits (precisely zero) in the intervening years, the School Street Fields in Acton hosted 15.
We could not have achieved these excellent results without our many field and feeder counters and town sector coordinators. To them we are, as always, grateful.
Please join us next CBC day, December 30, 2012. We will update this site a few months in advance of the date, so stay connected.
