Hi all, Everyone who made it out to Glen Helen yesterday for our (first annual) Christmas Bird Count was treated to a beautiful winter day. There was about an inch and a half of snow on the ground when we started, and it snowed on us until about eleven. We divided the Glen into 9 zones, and sent a team out to each of those. We covered most, but not all of the 25 miles of trails in the Glen, and hit pretty much every type of habitat in the preserve. The area around the pine forest held a number of species not widely found elsewhere, including red-breasted nuthatch, hermit thrush, and golden-crowned kinglet. We were low on hawks/vultures -- not surprising given the weather. We didn't turn up any owls either. Reasonable to expect that there were three (possibly four) species present, but we missed 'em. We found 1,545 birds of 33 species, including the following: Canada goose: 1 Mallard: 4 Cooper's Hawk: 1 Red-tailed hawk: 2 Mourning Dove: 29 Belted kingfisher: 4 Red-bellied woodpecker: 36 Downy woodpecker: 24 Hairy woodpecker: 6 Northern flicker: 6 Pileated woodpecker: 8 Blue jay: 8 Americal crow: 45 Carolina chickadee: 108 Tufted titmouse: 48 Red-breasted nuthatch: 3 White-breasted nuthatch: 34 Brown creeper: 10 Carolina wren: 13 Winter wren: 4 Golden-crowned kinglet: 4 Hermit thrush: 4 American robin: 163 European starling: 752 Eastern towhee: 10 American tree sparrow: 12 Song sparrow: 4 White-throated sparrow: 94 White-crowned sparrow: 2 Dark-eyed junco: 32 Northern cardinal: 69 House finch: 1 American goldfinch: 6 Big thanks to everyone who came out to help. -Nick ------------------------- Nick Boutis, Director Glen Helen 405 Corry St. Yellow Springs, OH 45387 937-769-1908 www.glenhelen.org ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]