Breeding Bird Survey 2004
Jun. 28th, 2004 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaneramosI just finished submitting data for the Breeding Bird Survey, which I ran on June 25. I counted 53 species. You can see the list
Common Loon
American Bittern
Common Merganser
Broad-winged Hawk
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Cedar Waxwing
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Slate-colored Junco
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Common Grackle
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
I have run this route each June since 2000. The name of the route has changed from Dorset to Dwight to reflect geographic alterations that occurred before I started. I need to write a note to the Ontario co-ordinator to point out that all the data I have ever submitted should properly apply to the Dwight route. The previous volunteer changed the route, but died before he documented it properly. He changed it because one segment along Highway 60 approaching Algonquin Park became too heavy with traffic, which interferes with good observations. The current route shares a segment of Highway 35 with the old one, but finishes along a stretch of Livingstone Lake Road, the main road past my cottage, which is significantly quieter.
The entire route runs through mixed forest with numerous lakes and marshes. I stop at 50 specific locations (the same ones every year) along a 40-kilometre route and count every bird I see or hear in three minutes. In such dense forest, the vast majority is identified by ear.
I had nothing particularly unusual, but this was the first time I counted a willow flycatcher on the route. American bittern and purple finch I had only counted once before. Red-eyed vireo is normally the most numerous bird, but I heard far fewer this year (24), and chestnut-sided warblers outnumbered them (29).
Common Loon
American Bittern
Common Merganser
Broad-winged Hawk
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Cedar Waxwing
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Slate-colored Junco
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Common Grackle
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
I have run this route each June since 2000. The name of the route has changed from Dorset to Dwight to reflect geographic alterations that occurred before I started. I need to write a note to the Ontario co-ordinator to point out that all the data I have ever submitted should properly apply to the Dwight route. The previous volunteer changed the route, but died before he documented it properly. He changed it because one segment along Highway 60 approaching Algonquin Park became too heavy with traffic, which interferes with good observations. The current route shares a segment of Highway 35 with the old one, but finishes along a stretch of Livingstone Lake Road, the main road past my cottage, which is significantly quieter.
The entire route runs through mixed forest with numerous lakes and marshes. I stop at 50 specific locations (the same ones every year) along a 40-kilometre route and count every bird I see or hear in three minutes. In such dense forest, the vast majority is identified by ear.
I had nothing particularly unusual, but this was the first time I counted a willow flycatcher on the route. American bittern and purple finch I had only counted once before. Red-eyed vireo is normally the most numerous bird, but I heard far fewer this year (24), and chestnut-sided warblers outnumbered them (29).
