Great Backyard Bird Count Results
The annual Great Backyard Bird Count, sponsored by the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, was held February 18-21. As
of press time, only preliminary results were posted on the Great Backyard Bird
Count website at birdcount.org, but United States bird watchers had submitted the
most checklists by far. We have reports of findings here in Pine Knoll Shores and a
couple of sites in Virginia.
From her home on Bogue Sound, Susan King spotted seven mergansers, two
sea gulls, two mourning doves, one great blue heron, one snowy egret, one belted
kingfisher, six house wrens, three Carolina wrens, 12 American robins, three house
finches and four Northern cardinals.
Jean McDanal has multiple birdfeeders and found that her birds came in
numbers too great to count, but she recognized chickadees, tufted titmice,
Carolina wrens, robins. Northern cardinals and mourning doves. Of course, a few
days later when she was no longer counting, she had about 50 robins in her yard,
and she also saw finches come in.
Gina Harris spotted mourning doves, Carolina wrens, tufted titmice, house
finches, American crows, a red-bellied woodpecker. Northern cardinals and
Carolina chickadees.
Emma Price and Noah
Trigg of Arlington, Virginia,
grandchildren of Janie and Jerry
Price, counted in their yard and
used a bird book to identif)^
sparrows, cardinals, a blue jay
and a dark-eyed junco. The next
day they were in Fort Valley,
Virginia, and reported seeing
a bunch of turkey vultures and
several hawks—and they are
pretty sure they heard a barred
owl.
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Noah and Ermna were happy to be part of the Great
Backyard Bird Count on their visit to Fort Valley,
Virginia.—Photo Marianne Trigg Price
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