Loveland CBC on Jan 1 - summary

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The 17th consecutive annual Christmas Bird Count was held in Loveland, CO on January 1, 2017. Participation was down slightly (50 participants) but weather was pleasant and birds were plentiful, with almost 46,000 tallied (2nd highest ever). We surpassed our previous highest species total with 105, including two new species for Count Day: Swamp Sparrow and Glaucous-winged Gull. Other rare species included Common Loon, Western Grebe, Eared Grebe, Snow Goose, Barrow's Goldeneye, Long-tailed Duck, Iceland Gull, Mew Gull, Great Black--backed Gull, Northern Goshawk, Virginia Rail, White-winged Dove, Long-eared Owl, Barn Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, American Pipit, Yellow-rumped Warbler, and Lesser Goldfinch. New high counts were achieved for Cackling Goose (19300), Green-winged Teal (32), Bufflehead (15), Ruddy Duck (68), Thayer's Gull (6), Lesser Black-backed Gull (5), Belted Kingfisher (22), Pygmy Nuthatch (217), American Dipper (27), Townsend's Solitaire (95) and Great-tailed Grackle (650). We failed to detect any of the following species that were expected: Northern Pygmy-Owl, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Killdeer, Harris's Sparrow and Pine Siskin. Count Week ends tomorrow, Jan 4, so if you see one of these in the Loveland CBC circle, please let me know. A special thanks to everyone involved.

Nick Komar

Loveland CBC compiler

[Jerry Welch]

What is the Loveland CBC Boundary on the East and North. I close to the loveland City Limits by about 1/2 mile and could add some to the count.i

[Dick]

Jerry Welch asked about the Loveland CBC count circle boundary

 

Here’s a great link for all the 2016/17 CBC count circles – zoom in and get a very accurate, clearly defined answer, for Loveland, for all of them, plus dates and other details!

 

http://audubon.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=3dcefef2f4654a94960fc3c8d1cfcc6d

 

Best wishes and Happy New Year all

 

Dick Filby

Carbondale, Garfield Cty

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