My apologies for the typos and improper names of species I trusted my 19 year old niece to help and should have proofread. I will have it fixed as soon as possible. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 15, 2020, at 7:52 PM, kevin66murphy@hotmail.com wrote: > >  > The 8th official Brantford Christmas Bird Count was held on Sunday , January the 5th , held on a day where weather conditions were in our favour , making it for the most part comfortable for all our observers. The temperature ranged from -2 , to plus 1 degrees , and at times felt like -7 with the wind chill. A brief hard snowfall came down for no longer than a half hour, but that was all for precipitation. 33 field observers and 5 feeder watchers tallied 66 species and 5 count week species in our count circle , with the center being the Brantford airport 79.5 hours were spent in the in the feild , 444.5 km were driven , and 99.65 were walked As well , 9 1/2 hours from our feeder watchers. A luncheon was held by Shelia Smith , as per the norm , giving the hardy group a nice break , whilst meeting some new participants Count week species observed were : Hermit Thrush , Ruby Crowned Kinglet , Common Grackle , Field Sparrow and Lesser Black Backed Gull. > > > > Canada geese - 1406 > Cackling goose - 3 > Mute swan - 1 > trumpter/ tundra swan - 11 > Mallard duck - 98 > Am. black duck - 8 > Common merganser - 59 > Common goldeneye - 135 > Bufflehead - 4 > Hooded merganser - 2 > Belted kingfisher - 7 > Blue heron - 6 > Ring billed gull - 192 > Herring gull - 273 > Gr. black backed gull - 20 > Iceland gull - 3 > Great horned owl - 2 > E. screech owl - 4 > Northern shrike - 2 > Eastern towhee - 3 > N. mockingbird - 1 > Turkey vulture - 12 > Bald eagle - 22 > Merlin -1 > American kestrel -2 > Red tailled hawk - 64 > Coopers hawk - 10 > Sharp shinned hawk -1 > Wild turkey - 62 > Pileated woodpecker - 4 > Northern flicker - 16 > Downy woodpecker - 81 > Hairy woodpecker - 17 > Red bellied woodpecker - 29 > Common crow - 316 > American robin - 11 > Carolina robin - 14 > Bluejay - 158 > Northern cardinal - 140 > Mourning dove - 359 > Rock dove - 853 > Black capped chickadee - 256 > Dark eyed junco - 360 > American tree sparrow - 185 > Whice breasted nut hatch - 50 > Red breasted nut hatch - 7 > Brown creeper - 13 > Golden crowned kinglet - 25 > American gold finch - 226 > House finch - 72 > House sparrow - 317 > White throated sparrow - 42 > White crowned sparrow - 30 > Swamp sparrow - 6 > Song sparrow - 47 > Brown headed cow bird - 22 > Red winged black bird - 5 > European starling - 2567 > Winter wren - 2 > Tuffted titmouse - 5 > Ceder wax wing - 12 > Horned lark - 12 > Commen raven- 4 > Paraguine falcon - 1 > Chipping sparrow - 1 > Eastern blue bird - 7 > > Kevin Murphy - Compiler > >