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BRIER ISLAND CHRISTMAS COUNT, 15 DECEMBER 2009
Weather overcast, 4-8C; wind E 10kph, then SSE 10 kph
0730-1700 AST
Participants: Anne Mills, Eric Mills (compiler), Jim Wolford
52 species; about 2207 individuals
Canada Goose - 9; Black Duck - 103; Mallard - 5; Green-winged Teal - 1; Common Eider -
61; Surf Scoter - 3; White-winged Scoter - 10; Black Scoter - 2; Long-tailed Duck - 106;
Bufflehead - 3; Common Goldeneye - 35; Red-breasted Merganser - 29; Ring-necked
Pheasant - 5; Ruffed Grouse - 1; Common Loon - 45; Red-necked Grebe - 6; Northern
Gannet - 71; Double-crested Cormorant - 2; Great Cormorant - 127; Turkey Vulture - 12;
Bald Eagle - 1; Northern Harrier - 1; Red-tailed Hawk - 1; Peregrine Falcon - 1; Pomarine
Jaeger - 1; Ring-billed Gull - 8; Herring Gull - 812; Iceland Gull - 13; Glaucous Gull - 1; Great
Black-backed Gull - 287; Black-legged Kittiwake - 58; Razorbill - 1; Black Guillemot - 24; alcid
sp. - 40; Rock Pigeon - 4; Mourning Dove - 33; Hairy Woodpecker - 1; Blue Jay - 13;
American Crow - 93; Common Raven - 11; Black-capped Chickadee - 32; Boreal Chickadee
- 1; Golden-crowned Kinglet - 22; Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1; European Starling - 52;
American Pipit - 11; American Tree Sparrow - 11; Song Sparrow - 2; White-throated Sparrow
- 1; Red-winged Blackbird - 1; Common Grackle - 25; Brown-headed Cowbird - 3; American
Goldfinch - 5.
Birds in the count week but not on count day: Red-throated Loon, Horned Lark, Bohemian
Waxwing.
Comments: There can't have been many Brier Island counts without a single Junco. There
was also a real dearth of Song Sparrows, White-throated Sparrows, and not a single Cardinal
remaining from another successful breeding season. But despite the scarcity of land birds,
bringing the count of the individuals below average, the total number of species was about
average, and birding conditions were good, which is rare during these counts. Calm winds
and very good visibility on the sea helped a lot, although it was not a year of sea bird
spectaculars. Nonetheless, several hours of sea-watching added significantly to the species
count and to numbers. The highlight on the sea was a distant but very well seen adult
Pomarine Jaeger hurrying to the southwest out of the Bay of Fundy. The big pond in Pond
Cove, which had been totally frozen up to 24 hours before count day opened up when the
temperature rose and an east wind came up, and the ducks responded, to the advantage of
the count. Great sights: the jaeger, of course, but also a stunning adult Peregrine surveying
Pea Jack Cove from atop a rocky pinnacle. It was good to have a Ruby-crowned Kinglet for
the count - definitely an off again - on again species in December on Brier Island.
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Eric L. Mills
286 Kingsburg Road
RR#1, Rose Bay, Nova Scotia B0J 2X0, Canada
e.mills@dal.ca
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Canada Goose - 9; Black Duck - 103; Mallard - 5; Green-winged Teal - 1; Common Eider -
61; Surf Scoter - 3; White-winged Scoter - 10; Black Scoter - 2; Long-tailed Duck - 106;
Bufflehead - 3; Common Goldeneye - 35; Red-breasted Merganser - 29; Ring-necked
Pheasant - 5; Ruffed Grouse - 1; Common Loon - 45; Red-necked Grebe - 6; Northern
Gannet - 71; Double-crested Cormorant - 2; Great Cormorant - 127; Turkey Vulture - 12;
Bald Eagle - 1; Northern Harrier - 1; Red-tailed Hawk - 1; Peregrine Falcon - 1; <b>Pomarine
Jaeger - 1</b>; Ring-billed Gull - 8; Herring Gull - 812; Iceland Gull - 13; Glaucous Gull - 1; Great
Black-backed Gull - 287; Black-legged Kittiwake - 58; Razorbill - 1; Black Guillemot - 24; alcid
sp. - 40; Rock Pigeon - 4; Mourning Dove - 33; Hairy Woodpecker - 1; Blue Jay - 13;
American Crow - 93; Common Raven - 11; Black-capped Chickadee - 32; Boreal Chickadee
- 1; Golden-crowned Kinglet - 22; <b>Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1</b>; European Starling - 52;
American Pipit - 11; American Tree Sparrow - 11; Song Sparrow - 2; White-throated Sparrow
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Comments: There can't have been many Brier Island counts without a single Junco. There
was also a real dearth of Song Sparrows, White-throated Sparrows, and not a single Cardinal
remaining from another successful breeding season. But despite the scarcity of land birds,
bringing the count of the individuals below average, the total number of species was about
average, and birding conditions were good, which is rare during these counts. Calm winds
and very good visibility on the sea helped a lot, although it was not a year of sea bird
spectaculars. Nonetheless, several hours of sea-watching added significantly to the species
count and to numbers. The highlight on the sea was a distant but very well seen adult
Pomarine Jaeger hurrying to the southwest out of the Bay of Fundy. The big pond in Pond
Cove, which had been totally frozen up to 24 hours before count day opened up when the
temperature rose and an east wind came up, and the ducks responded, to the advantage of
the count. Great sights: the jaeger, of course, but also a stunning adult Peregrine surveying
Pea Jack Cove from atop a rocky pinnacle. It was good to have a Ruby-crowned Kinglet for
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