The Cumberland Island Christmas Bird Count was held on Saturday, December 20, 2008. My area is the mainland within the count circle. Here is the bird list for my area - a total of 117 species!
Participants: Roger Clark and Bruce Smart
Area: Mainland; Paper Mill to North Causeway to Crooked River SP
Nocturnal Time Birding: 0530 to 0715; 1730 to 1815 (2.50 hours)
Day Time Birding: 0715 to 1730; (10.25 hours)
Total Birding Hours: 12.75
Nocturnal Hours: car - .75; foot – 1.75
Daylight Hours: car – 2.0; foot – 8.25
Miles Car Nocturnal: 25 (41,232 to 41,257)
Miles Car Daylight: 77 (41,257 to 41,334)
Miles Foot Nocturnal: .50
Miles Foot Daylight: 3.25
Grand Totals:
Day foot and car hours – 10.25
Day foot and car miles – 80.25
Nocturnal foot and car hours – 2.50
Nocturnal foot and car miles – 25.50
Places visited:
CP – Crooked River Plantation
CR – Crooked River State Park
IP – Industrial Park
NC – North Causeway
PM – Paper Mill (now the former, site in ruins)
SM – Sugar Mill Park
WP – Water Treatment Plant
Bird List:
Nocturnal Time Birding: 0530 to 0715; 1730 to 1815 (2.50 hours)
Day Time Birding: 0715 to 1730; (10.25 hours)
Total Birding Hours: 12.75
Nocturnal Hours: car - .75; foot – 1.75
Daylight Hours: car – 2.0; foot – 8.25
Miles Car Nocturnal: 25 (41,232 to 41,257)
Miles Car Daylight: 77 (41,257 to 41,334)
Miles Foot Nocturnal: .50
Miles Foot Daylight: 3.25
Grand Totals:
Day foot and car hours – 10.25
Day foot and car miles – 80.25
Nocturnal foot and car hours – 2.50
Nocturnal foot and car miles – 25.50
Places visited:
CP – Crooked River Plantation
CR – Crooked River State Park
IP – Industrial Park
NC – North Causeway
PM – Paper Mill (now the former, site in ruins)
SM – Sugar Mill Park
WP – Water Treatment Plant
Bird List:
Blue-winged teal – 17
Northern shoveler – 3
Green-winged teal – 4
Ring-necked duck – 10
Lesser scaup – 2
Bufflehead – 1
Hooded merganser – 15
Red-breasted merganser – 2
Ruddy duck – 1
Pied-billed grebe – 2
American white pelican – 1 PM
Brown pelican – 20
Double-crested cormorant – 95
Anhinga – 2 NC
Great blue heron – 8
Great egret – 50
Snowy egret – 75
Little blue heron – 75
Tricolored heron – 135
Black-crowned Night-Heron – 1 (noc)
White ibis – 60
Wood stork – 4 (3 CP, 1 PM)
Black vulture – 7
Turkey vulture – 45
Osprey – 1
Cooper’s hawk – 1 NC
Red-shouldered hawk – 1
Red-tailed hawk – 3
American kestrel – 4
Clapper rail – 1
Common moorhen – 2
American coot – 4
Black-bellied plover – 10
Semipalmated plover – 30
Killdeer – 7
Spotted sandpiper – 2
Greater yellowlegs – 2
Willet – 5
Ruddy turnstone – 2
Sanderling – 4
Western sandpiper – 30
Least sandpiper – 6
Dunlin – 10
Short-billed Dowitcher – 6
Wilson’s snipe – 2
Laughing gull – 85
Ring-billed gull – 65
Herring gull – 4
Great Black-backed gull – 1
Caspian tern – 3 PM
Forster’s tern – 20
Royal tern – 15
Rock pigeon – 85
Eurasian collared dove – 70 (18 CP, 52 PM)
Mourning dove – 40
Eastern screech-owl – 2 (noc)
Great horned owl – 6
Barred owl – 5 (2 SM, 3 NC - noc)
Belted kingfisher – 2
Red-bellied woodpecker – 8
Yellow-bellied sapsucker – 1
Downy woodpecker – 2
Northern flicker – 2 PM
Eastern phoebe – 3
Loggerhead shrike – 8 (2 PM, 2 NC, 1 WP, 1 IP, 1 near CP)
White-eyed vireo – 1
Blue-headed vireo – 1
Blue jay – 19
American crow – 15
Fish crow – 3
Tree swallow – 1,200
Carolina chickadee – 2
Tufted titmouse – 3
Brown-headed Nuthatch 8 (these were on base near the Trident Golf Course)
Carolina wren – 10
House wren – 3
Sedge wren – 1 PM
Marsh wren – 3
Ruby-crowned kinglet – 15
Blue-gray gnatcatcher – 3 PM
Eastern Bluebird – 17 scattered many places
Hermit thrush – 3
American robin – 49
Gray catbird – 9
Brown thrasher – 1 PM
European starling – 35
American pipit – 7 WP
Cedar waxwing – 30
Orange-crowned warbler – 2
Yellow-rumped warbler – 750
Yellow-throated warbler – 1 CR (visitor center parking lot)
Pine warbler – 6
Palm warbler – 10
Black-and-white warbler – 1
Common yellowthroat – 2
Eastern towhee – 3
Chipping sparrow – 95
Field sparrow – 1 PM
Vesper sparrow – 16 (1 PM, 15 IP)
Savannah sparrow – 30
Nelson’s sharp-tailed sparrow – 4 PM
Saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow – 2 PM
Seaside Sparrow – 1
Song sparrow – 12
Swamp sparrow – 35
White-throated sparrow – 4 PM
Northern cardinal – 15
Red-winged blackbird – 45
Eastern meadowlark – 5 PM
Rusty blackbird – 7 PM
Boat-tailed grackle – 175
Brown-headed cowbird – 4
Baltimore oriole – 1 PM
House finch – 35 PM
American goldfinch – 70
House sparrow - 7
Northern shoveler – 3
Green-winged teal – 4
Ring-necked duck – 10
Lesser scaup – 2
Bufflehead – 1
Hooded merganser – 15
Red-breasted merganser – 2
Ruddy duck – 1
Pied-billed grebe – 2
American white pelican – 1 PM
Brown pelican – 20
Double-crested cormorant – 95
Anhinga – 2 NC
Great blue heron – 8
Great egret – 50
Snowy egret – 75
Little blue heron – 75
Tricolored heron – 135
Black-crowned Night-Heron – 1 (noc)
White ibis – 60
Wood stork – 4 (3 CP, 1 PM)
Black vulture – 7
Turkey vulture – 45
Osprey – 1
Cooper’s hawk – 1 NC
Red-shouldered hawk – 1
Red-tailed hawk – 3
American kestrel – 4
Clapper rail – 1
Common moorhen – 2
American coot – 4
Black-bellied plover – 10
Semipalmated plover – 30
Killdeer – 7
Spotted sandpiper – 2
Greater yellowlegs – 2
Willet – 5
Ruddy turnstone – 2
Sanderling – 4
Western sandpiper – 30
Least sandpiper – 6
Dunlin – 10
Short-billed Dowitcher – 6
Wilson’s snipe – 2
Laughing gull – 85
Ring-billed gull – 65
Herring gull – 4
Great Black-backed gull – 1
Caspian tern – 3 PM
Forster’s tern – 20
Royal tern – 15
Rock pigeon – 85
Eurasian collared dove – 70 (18 CP, 52 PM)
Mourning dove – 40
Eastern screech-owl – 2 (noc)
Great horned owl – 6
Barred owl – 5 (2 SM, 3 NC - noc)
Belted kingfisher – 2
Red-bellied woodpecker – 8
Yellow-bellied sapsucker – 1
Downy woodpecker – 2
Northern flicker – 2 PM
Eastern phoebe – 3
Loggerhead shrike – 8 (2 PM, 2 NC, 1 WP, 1 IP, 1 near CP)
White-eyed vireo – 1
Blue-headed vireo – 1
Blue jay – 19
American crow – 15
Fish crow – 3
Tree swallow – 1,200
Carolina chickadee – 2
Tufted titmouse – 3
Brown-headed Nuthatch 8 (these were on base near the Trident Golf Course)
Carolina wren – 10
House wren – 3
Sedge wren – 1 PM
Marsh wren – 3
Ruby-crowned kinglet – 15
Blue-gray gnatcatcher – 3 PM
Eastern Bluebird – 17 scattered many places
Hermit thrush – 3
American robin – 49
Gray catbird – 9
Brown thrasher – 1 PM
European starling – 35
American pipit – 7 WP
Cedar waxwing – 30
Orange-crowned warbler – 2
Yellow-rumped warbler – 750
Yellow-throated warbler – 1 CR (visitor center parking lot)
Pine warbler – 6
Palm warbler – 10
Black-and-white warbler – 1
Common yellowthroat – 2
Eastern towhee – 3
Chipping sparrow – 95
Field sparrow – 1 PM
Vesper sparrow – 16 (1 PM, 15 IP)
Savannah sparrow – 30
Nelson’s sharp-tailed sparrow – 4 PM
Saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow – 2 PM
Seaside Sparrow – 1
Song sparrow – 12
Swamp sparrow – 35
White-throated sparrow – 4 PM
Northern cardinal – 15
Red-winged blackbird – 45
Eastern meadowlark – 5 PM
Rusty blackbird – 7 PM
Boat-tailed grackle – 175
Brown-headed cowbird – 4
Baltimore oriole – 1 PM
House finch – 35 PM
American goldfinch – 70
House sparrow - 7
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