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Kick Off Your Year List 2022 – January 1, 2022

Leaders: Melissa Roach, Chris Marks, Mary Watkins, Alan Crawford

Temp: 50-55° F

Winds:   0-5 mph

Weather Conditions: rain/fog

Mild temperatures throughout the day (low to mid 50s) and light wind. However, heavy fog and rain persisted until about 2pm. Despite the dreary weather, we still saw a good number of species including Blue-winged Teal, American Bittern, House Wren, and Red-headed Woodpecker. Other species seen while driving between locations (so not officially counted for the day) were Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, and Snow Goose.

69 species

Species Count
65 Canada Goose
7 Mute Swan
9 Tundra Swan
1 Wood Duck
2 Blue-winged Teal
25 Northern Shoveler
105 Gadwall
17 American Wigeon
50 Mallard
9 American Black Duck
13 Northern Pintail
38 Green-winged Teal
21 Ring-necked Duck
8 Bufflehead
17 Hooded Merganser
2 Ruddy Duck
1 Pied-billed Grebe
6 Rock Pigeon
8 Mourning Dove
7 Clapper Rail
6 American Coot
3 Black-bellied Plover
1 Dunlin
2 Greater Yellowlegs
6 Ring-billed Gull
2 Herring Gull
18 Great Black-backed Gull
4 Double-crested Cormorant
2 American Bittern
7 Great Blue Heron
5 Great Egret
17 Northern Harrier
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper’s Hawk
2 Bald Eagle
2 Great Horned Owl
1 Short-eared Owl
2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1 Red-headed Woodpecker
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
4 Downy Woodpecker
3 Northern Flicker
3 Blue Jay
1 American Crow
7 Carolina Chickadee
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 House Wren
2 Marsh Wren
12 Carolina Wren
60 European Starling
2 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher
11 Northern Mockingbird
4 Eastern Bluebird
1 Hermit Thrush
195 American Robin
18 Cedar Waxwing
1 House Sparrow
2 House Finch
4 Field Sparrow
4 Dark-eyed Junco
54 White-throated Sparrow
9 Song Sparrow
3 Swamp Sparrow
1 Eastern Towhee
1 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Orange-crowned Warbler
84 Yellow-rumped Warbler
15 Northern Cardinal
HYBRIDS
1 Mallard x American Black Duck hybrid)