29th Annual Winter Bird Census – 27 species, 800 birds

Great Horned Owl; photo by Greg Hume
Great Horned Owl; photo by Greg Hume

Bald Eagle, Red Tailed Hawk, Great Horned Owl, Great Blue Heron, Northern Flicker, Red Bellied Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Ring-billed Gulls and much much more. Actually there were two winter bird censuses. On the Medford campus there were 27 species, 800 birds; at the 17th winter census on the Lumberton Campus there were 34 species and more than 2000 birds, more than a thousand of which were Canada Geese. Both campuses had swarms of robins filling up on bright red holly berries.

January 13 was a windy 20-degree day for the Medford count; in Lumberton on January 20 it was a windless day in the upper 20s.  The Medford Leas Birders Website has a blog where Robert Koch has posted interesting narratives and detailed reports on both of the censuses.

29th Annual Census Medford Campus …..   17th Annual Census Lumberton Campus

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