Lumberton Leas 11th Winter Bird Census, January 8, 2010
Light snow on the ground, beautiful blue sky, and cold!
Here are results of the Medford Leas Winter Bird Census, annual since January 1988, and other projects such as the Bluebird Trail.
Each year has a page, and summary tables are also available:
Light snow on the ground, beautiful blue sky, and cold!
It was quiet because the birds were all sheltering from the snow, but some “pishing” stirred up a few birds.
Lumberton Leas 9th Winter Bird Census, January 14, 2008
Species: 33, Individuals: 407
Lumberton Leas 8th Winter Bird Census, January 18, 2007. Participants: Louise Tompkins, Perry Krakora, Miriam Swartz
A cold, windy day. Bird List: 33 species and 505 individuals
Lumberton Leas 6th Winter Bird Census, January 10, 2005. Bird List: 28 Species, 400 individuals
29 species and 891 individuals were observered.
Lumberton Leas 4th Winter Bird Census, January 10, 2003. 27 species, 769 individuals; Highlights, Redhead, Gadwall.
Groups led by Robert Koch walked the Lumberton campus and woods in the morning and the Medford campus and woods in the afternoon of December 27, 2020. The day’s highlight was a group of three Bald Eagles, possibly a family, as they perched in the evening light in the trees between Lumberton and Creekview.
It was a great day to count the birds!! Bright and sunny day with calm winds and temperatures ranging from mid-40’s to low 50’s. The usual Winter population of song birds was present although some birds, like the Great Horned Owl seen on consecutive days on its roost, were missing. The variety and number of ducks were also lower than the past few censuses.
We started our count in the community garden area under bright sun and a chilly 24 F. Fortunately it was a dead calm day so the wind-chill factor was negligible. Most of the birds we expected to see were present but there were also unexpected misses.
We began our census under gray skies and cool weather and it remained such throughout. However, it turned out to be a rather birdy morning as we totaled 28 species and 574 individuals.
The 20th Winter Bird Census was conducted on a bright and sunny day with winds increasing through the morning. The high winds might have accounted for the low count of song and woodland birds.
On December 23 2019, the Medford Leas birders contributed a day’s censusing to the Audubon Christmas Bird Count.
The Medford Leas Birders set out to get some idea of the spring migrants that visit our campuses, as well as recording some numbers on our resident populations. Overall we totaled 30 species on each campus.
The ML Birders had to postpone their count by a day due to inclement weather. However, a late afternoon walk on the count day did garner three raptors and one duck species.
Four ML Birders lucked out with a bright, sunny, windless and by mid-morning almost “balmy” day to count the campus birds. Most of the expected birds we commonly see were present
After two rainy and windy days the ML Birders were able to take their census on a day that, weather wise at least, improved through the morning and ended in bright sun and relatively warm temperatures.
The Medford Leas avian census takers met at the Nature Center on a dreary day for the numerators as well as the objects of their pursuit. The woodland trails were eerily silent with only a scattering of birds seen or heard.
A cold (upper 20’s) sunny but windless day greeted the ML Birders at the start of the count. It was spotty for land birds early on but good for waterfowl.
On a cold blustery day the Medford Leas Birders met at the Nature Center at 8 a.m. to commence our sightings and listings. While the temperature never got out of the 20’s the bright sun slowly began to warm the day and rouse the birds.
In February ML birders heard a presentation of Scott McConnell’s new book Witmer Stone, The Fascination of Nature. Witmer Stone was an ornithologist in the early 20th century who wrote Bird Studies in Old Cape May.
The day was cloudy with temperatures in the upper 20 degrees. The ML birders counted 375 individual birds of 31 species on the Lumberton campus and nearby lake.
On January 15, ML birders conducted the 28th annual winter census on a cloudy day with the temperature in the low 30s.