Bird Counting Weekend

[Donna]

Jeeez, Carol P! Make us all feel bad, why don't you?! You could at least have put the list in taxonomic order while you were at it...

 

Um, wow, I quit?     

Oh, no!  Don't quit!  Like I said, I just happened to be in Montezuma for the day on Saturday.  Otherwise, I would have only had a very short list.  Just good timing.   

LOL OK! Good job though!!

[Aafke]

On the way to & from the grocery store...

3 ducks in flight-couldn't tell what kind-just the flapping like mad & not getting very far of a duck
2 kettles of Turkey Vultures
2 probably blue jays-size was right & they were doing the single flap/bullet glide of a blue jay
Small flock of LBJs
3 mourning doves

Sorry but I'm thinking and thinking, what are LBJ's?
Greetings Aafke

[Carol P.]

On the way to & from the grocery store...

3 ducks in flight-couldn't tell what kind-just the flapping like mad & not getting very far of a duck
2 kettles of Turkey Vultures
2 probably blue jays-size was right & they were doing the single flap/bullet glide of a blue jay
Small flock of LBJs
3 mourning doves

Sorry but I'm thinking and thinking, what are LBJ's?
Greetings Aafke

Aafke - That means little brown jobbies.  Meaning a small brown unidentifiable bird. 

[Aafke]

O, ok thanks, that is new to me, funny.
greetings Aafke

[Aafke]

Here is the total list of the Bird Watching Weekend
 
Thanks everybody for sending your lists, next time it would be nice when there will be more lists.
I tried to make it as carefully as possible, but I had some problems with the birds like the Sparrows and the House Sparrow, are they the same? There were more. Let me know when you see a mistake.
I made this list starting with the bird that is seen the most, by different people and on different days.
It’s the number after the bird. The birds with no number were only seen by one person.

The winner is the Mourning Dove that is seen by 13 different persons.

Mourning Doves (13)
Blue Jay (12)
Crow (11)
Starling (9)
Cardinal (8
House Sparrows (8
Canada geese (7)
Turkey Vultures (6)
Gold Finches (5)
Chickadee (4)
duck (4)
Grackel (4)
Great Blue Herons (4)
Gull (4)
Jack daws (4)
Mallard (4)
Peregrine Falcon (4)
Robin (4)
Rock Doves (4)
Sea Gulls (4)
Coot (3)
Cormorants (3)
Flicker (3)
Kestrel (3)
Magpie (3)
Pigeon (3)
Redtail Hawk (3)
American Goldfinches (2)
Blue Tit (2)
Buzzard (2)
egret (2)
Golden Plover (2)
Great Egret (2)
Great Tit (2)
Greylag Goose (2)
House Finch (2)
Lapwing (2)
Northern Shoveler (2)
Osprey (2)
Rook (2)
Sparrows (2)
Swan (2)
Wigeon (2)
Wild Turkeys (2)
American Robin
Avocet
Black Vultures
Black-crowned Night Herons
Blackbird
blue jays-sized
bluebirds
Caspian Tern
Catbird
chicken
Chimney Swift
Collared Turtle Dove
coopers hawk
Curlew
Double-crested Cormorants
Doves
Downey Woodpecker
Egyptian Goose
European Starling
European Robin
Gadwall
Geese
Great Black-back Gull
Great crested grebe
Greater Yellowlegs
Grebes
Green Heron
grey catbirds
Grey Heron
Harriers
Hawks
heron
House Martins
Hummingbird
Killdeer
Kingfisher
LBJs probably house sparrows.
Little Egret
Male Hairy Woodpecker
Marsh Harrier
Mute Swan
Northern Cardinal
not sure-small birds
Nuthatch
Oystercatcher
pelicans
Redshank
Redwing blackbirds
Ringed Plover
Ring-bill Gulls
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Sandwich Tern
Shelduck
small white geese or large white ducks
Snipe
Spoonbill
Swallows
Teal
Tern
Titmice
Tree swallows
Tufted Duck
Tufted titmouse
Turnstone
Twite
Waxwings
White Wagtail
Wood Ducks
Woodpecker

greetings Aafke

[Patti from Kentucky]

Thanks for the hard work of putting together the list, Aafke!  I'm sure it wasn't easy given that people used all sorts of different names for the same birds.

[Kris G.]

I also want to thank you for doing this, Aafke!  It was fun reading what everyone saw during the 3 days! 

[Donna]

What a great list and now I know what a Wigeon is. Thanks Aafke! Good spotting all! Even me, I'm excited for the very few I saw! 

[MAK]

  Good job Aafke! I appreciate your efforts to bring fun stuff to our forum! 

[Bobbie Ireland]

Fun and informative list, Aafke! Thanks!