Results of 1996 SERC winter bird count (14 January 1996) 
No. of observers : 14 No. of parties : 4 Party hrs : ca. 22 Km on foot : ca. 12 Km in car: 
ca. 10 Total km : ca. 22 Weather : clear; T = 25-45° F; winds: mostly calm to light Ice : 
complete ice cover in all bodies of water in count area 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 River. 
Species 
No. counted in sector 
12 3 4 
total 
Tundra Swan 
6 
6 
Canada Goose 2184 
125 
56 
215 
2184* 
Turkey Vulture 
2 
2 
3 
1 
8 
Black Vulture 
2 
12 
6 
20 
Red-tailed Hawk 
1 
1 
2 
1 
5 
Red-shouldered Hawk 
2 
2 
4 
Marsh Harrier 
1 
1 
Ring-billed Gull 
26 
3 
29 
Mourning Dove 
8 
3 
2 
1 3 
Belted Kingfisher 
2 
2 
4 
Common Flicker 
2 
2 
4 
3 
1 1 
Pileated Woodpecker 
1 
1 
2 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 
1 
1 
4 
1 
7 
Hairy Woodpecker 
1 
1 
2 
Downy Woodpecker 
4 
2 
5 
7 
1 8 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 
11 
8 
11 
4 
34 
Common Crow 
42 
24 
5 
7 
78 
Blue Jay 
13 
15 
5 
53 
Carolina Chickadeee 
10 
7 
15 
8 
40 
Tufted Titmouse 
4 
6 
11 
12 
33 
White-br. Nuthatch 
1 
3 
5 
9 
Brown Creeper 
3 
3 
Carolina Wren 
3 
3 
Northern Mockingbird 
12 
4 
6 
2 
24 
Brown Thrasher 
2 
2 
4 
Gray Catbird 
1 
1 
American Robin 
1 
3 
4 
Hermit Thrush 
7 
2 
5 
3 
1 7 
Eastern Bluebird 
4 
9 
1 
1 4 
Cedar Waxwing 
20 
20 
Eur. Starling 
22 
31 
12 
1 
66 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 
9 
5 
8 
1 
23 
House Sparrow 
3 
10 
1 3 
Red-winged Blackbird 
56 
56 
Common Grackle 
70 
70 
* 
- birds seen in sectors 2-4 assumed to be the same individuals as in sector 1 
