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Date Posted: 14:51:41 01/05/03 Sun
Author: Chuck
Author Host/IP: dial-bu-190-140.wcnet.org / 157.134.190.140
Subject: Grand Rapids - Waterville CBC results

This years Grand Rapids - Waterville Christmas bird count as reported by compiler Tom Kemp broke a record for number of species (76) by 5 species. The list is shown below:

103rd
Christmas Bird Count
Grand Rapids-Waterville
Ohio, United States


Count
Date: Dec 29, 2002

Number of Participants (List): 25 (+ 5 @ feeders) Number
of Party Hours: 72.25
Total birds on count day: 14,983 Species reported on
count day: 76 (high)
Low Temperature: 17 F (-8 C) High Temperature:
34 F (1 C)
AM Weather: clouds - Cloudy
rain - None
snow - None PM Weather:
clouds - Cloudy
rain - None
snow - None

Great
Blue Heron
(Blue form) 29
Snow Goose cw
Canada Goose 1,222

Mute Swan 9
Tundra Swan 2
Wood Duck 2
Gadwall 8
American Black
Duck 91
Mallard 1,597
Harlequin Duck 1 US

Bufflehead 1
Common Goldeneye 3
Hooded Merganser
1
Common Merganser 2
Bald Eagle 5
Adults = 2, Immatures = 3, Unknowns
= 0
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5
Cooper's Hawk 11

Red-tailed Hawk 32
Rough-legged Hawk cw
American Kestrel 8
American
Coot 1
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 2,259
Herring Gull 770

Iceland Gull 5 US HC
Lesser
Black-backed Gull 5 US HC

Glaucous Gull
2 US HC

Great Black-backed Gull 1
Rock Dove 87 1.204

Mourning Dove 1,083 HC
Eastern Screech-Owl 39
Great Horned Owl 23 HC

Barred Owl 3
Belted Kingfisher 12 HC
Red-headed Woodpecker 4

Red-bellied Woodpecker 103 HC
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3
Downy Woodpecker
178 HC
Hairy Woodpecker 42
Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker 38 HC

Northern Shrike 1 US
Blue Jay 318

American Crow 148
Horned Lark 822 HC
Black-capped Chickadee 294

Tufted Titmouse 149
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
White-breasted Nuthatch
132

cw =
Reported count week; US = Flagged as an unusual species; HC = Flagged as an unusually
high count.







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