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Great Backyard Bird Count - RESULTS!

© Terrie Murray

Well, the Great Backyard Bird Count is finished for another year. I counted all four days, in four different locations: home, the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Gardens, Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge, and Oak's Bottom Wildlife Refuge. My favorite bird: dunlin, in a flock of more than 5000 at Ankeny (see photo, above). But that is closely followed by the 27 great blue herons I saw on nests at a rookery on Ross Island, right here in Portland. I find it magical and inspirational that there can be such a display of wildness in the midst of urban Portland. I also got a life bird: common redpoll, four of them, seen at Oak's Bottom on Monday morning.

The following are my cummulative totals. I entered my counts for each area separately onto the GBBC web page, noting the highest number seen at any one time. These are the CUMMULATIVE totals, all birds seen over the course of the weekend.

How did everyone else do?

-- Terrie

1. American Wigeon 30
2. American Robin 22
3. American Crow 65
4. American Robin 245
5. American Goldfinch 1
6. American Wigeon 60
7. American Coot 30
8. Anna's Hummingbird 4
9. Bald Eagle 1
10. Belted Kingfisher 1
11. Bewick's Wren 5
12. Black-Capped Chickadee
13. Brewers Blackbird 50
14. Bufflehead 60
15. Bushtit 25
16. Canada Geese 700
17. Cinnamon Teal 1
18. Common Redpoll 4
19. Dark-Eyed Junco 45
20. Double-Crested Cormorant 1
21. Downy Woodpecker 2
22. Dunlin 5000+
23. European Starlings 500
24. Fox Sparrow 1
25. Glacous Winged Gull 4
26. Golden Eagle 1
27. Golden-Crowned Kinglet 4
28. Golden-Crowned Sparrow 9
29. Great Blue Heron 29
30. Great Egret 4
31. Greater White Fronted Goose 1
32. Greater Yellowlegs 2
33. Green-Winged Teal 34
34. Hairy Woodpecker 1
35. Hooded Merganser 2
36. House Sparrow 5
37. House Finch 25
38. Killdeer 6
39. Least Sandpiper 6
40. Lesser Scaup 65
41. Long-Billed Dowitcher 14
42. Mallard 60
43. Marsh Wren 2
44. Mourning Dove 2
45. Northern Pintail 10
46. Northern Shoveler 10
47. Northern Harrier 1
48. Northern Flicker 8
49. Northern Bushtits 25
50. Pied-Billed Grebe 2
51. Pine Siskin 2
52. Red-Tailed Hawk 5
53. Red-winged Blackbird 4
54. Ring-Necked Duck 3
55. Rough-Legged Hawk 1
56. Ruby-Crowned Kinglet 12
57. Ruddy Duck 65
58. Savannah Sparrow 1
59. Song Sparrow 14
60. Spotted Towhee 3
61. Spotted Sandpiper 1
62. Steller's Jay 3
63. Tree Swallow 1 (first of the year)
64. Western Bluebird 2 (first of the year)
65. Western Scrub-Jay 4
66. Western Gull 1
67. Winter Wren 2
68. Wood Duck 25
69. Yellow-Rumped Warbler 43

Dunlin at Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge

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