Results of 1995 SERC winter bird count (held 8 January 1995) 
No. of observers : 12 No. of parties : 3 Party hrs: ca. 18 Km on foot: ca. 20 
Km in car: ca. 15 Total km: ca. 35 Weather: Partly cloudy to sunny; T = 30-40°F; 
winds: mostly calm to light; no ice in inlets; SECTORS: 1 - Camp letts S. to Contee’s Wharf Rd; 
2 - Contee’s Wharf Rd S. to Muddy Creek; 3 - Muddy Creek S. to Cumberstone Rd; 
4 - Cumberstone Rd. S. to West R. 
No. counted in sector 
Species 
1 
2 
3 
4 
total 
Great Blue Heron 
i 
1 1 
4 
16 
Tundra Swan 
35 
32 
100 
167 
Mute Swan 
2 
2 
Canada Goose 
32 
500 
27 
557 
Mallard 
21 
1 
1 2 
5 
41 
Black Duck 
2 
1 6 
1 3 
20 
51 
American Shoveller 
1 
1 
Canvasback 
70 
1 
71 
Scaup sp. 
1 
1 
Common Goldeneye 
2 
2 
Bufflehead 
1 4 
117 
131 
Turkey Vulture 
6 
4 
8 
1 
1 9 
Black Vulture 
3 
8 
1 1 
Bald Eagle 
3 
1 
4 
Red-tailed Hawk 
1 
1 
2 
Red-shouldered Hawk 
i 
1 
American Kestrel 
2 
1 
3 
Bobwhite 
i 
1 
Kildeer 
3 
1 6 
1 
20 
Herring Gull 
29 
1 
59 
89 
Ring-billed Gull 
30 
2 
32 
Mourning Dove 
5 
20 
7 
1 
33 
Belted Kingfisher 
1 
2 
3 
Common Ricker 
3 
4 
i 
8 
Pileated Woodpecker 
2 
2 
Yellow-b. Sapsucker 
2 
2 
4 
Hairy Woodpecker 
1 
2 
3 
6 
Downy Woodpecker 
4 
3 
5 
2 
1 4 
Red-bel. Woodpecker 
5 
4 
7 
2 
1 8 
Red-hd. Woodpecker 
2 
2 
Common Crow 
1 5 
1 1 
8 
101 
135 
Fish Crow 
1 
1 
Blue Jay 
2 1 
21 
Carolina Chickadeee 
1 0 
7 
1 5 
8 
40 
Tufted Titmouse 
4 
1 1 
1 0 
9 
34 
White-br. Nuthatch 
2 
1 
3 
Brown Creeper 
2 
2 
Carolina Wren 
8 
5 
1 3 
