Hampstead Unofficial Xmas Bird Count

[Alfred Maley]

Hampstead Xmas Bird Count

December 25 2025

Participants: Al & Linda Maley, Bob Preble

Comments: 

Most water frozen, no finches or half-hardies, plus cold weather before and on count day made for a challenging count .Best birds were a kingfisher and a Great Blue Heron associated with bits of open water in the Sawmill Swamp. Robins were missed for the first time, White-throated Sparrows were hunkered down somewhere unknown and the daily Cooper’s Hawk after the feeder birds was missed. Bright spot: sapsuckers seem to have discovered bird feeders.

The count lasted a half day until we retired to enjoy a fine Christmas dinner.

Total Species 28

Wild Turkey  12

Great Blue Heron  1

Red-tailed Hawk  5

Mourning Dove  17

Great Horned Owl  2

Barred Owl  2

Belted Kingfisher  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  9

Downy Woodpecker  21

Hairy Woodpecker  7

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  4

Northern Flicker  3

Blue Jay  12

American Crow  25

Black-capped Chickadee  28

Tufted Titmouse  27

White-breasted Nuthatch  10

Brown Creeper  2

Carolina Wren  3

Eastern Bluebird  18

European Starling 1

American Tree Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow 5

Dark-eyed Junco  35

Northern Cardinal  6

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  23

House Sparrow  3

Count Week: Red-shouldered Hawk, Cooper’s Hawk, Pileated Woodpecker