[Birdtalk] Evanston WY/UT CBC

[Tim Gorman]

16 individuals spent a beautiful day afield on Sunday, December 16 participating in the Evanston Wyoming/Utah Christmas Bird Count. The count center is were Rt 89 crosses the Wyoming/Utah border between Evanston Wyoming and Woodruff Utah. 

35 species were found and total bird count was 1,757, both numbers being lower than average. 211 Greater Sage-Grouse were tallied, again lower than average. 

Noticably absent were woodpeckers, rosy-finches and kingfisher.
 
The only unusual bird on this years list below is Sandhill Crane:

Canada Goose                      22
Mallard                                 25
Green-winged Teal                  5
Common Goldeneye            101
Barrow's Goldeneye                1
Common Merganser                2
Greater Sage-Grouse           211
Bald eagle                            21
Northern Harrier                      3
Sharp-shinned Hawk               4
Cooper's Hawk                       1
Red-tailed Hawk                     2
Buteo sp.                               2
Golden Eagle                        11
Prairie Falcon                         1
Sandhill Crane                        1
Wilson's Snipe                        2
Rock Pigeon                         13
Eurasion Collared-Dove            5
Great Horned Owl                   1
Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker  1
Loggerhead Shrike                  1
Northern Shrike                       2
Black-billed Magpie              286
Commaon Raven                    39
Horned Lark                           48
Black-capped Chickadee         54
Mountain Chickadee                 2
Townsend's Sloitaire                 1
Euopean Starling                   360
Bohemian Waxwing                   8
Cedar Waxwing                       20
Am. Tree Sparrow                    25
Harris's Sparrow                        3
sparrow sp.                           120
Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco          7
House Finch                            51
House Sparrow                       272

Tim Gorman
Evanston, WY
  

       
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