Thank you for organizing this!!

Tentative results for the count include 

101 birds for count day and

2 birds for count week.  

Two bird species were new to the count this year, Western Bluebird and Chestnut-backed Chickadee.  

We had 52 participants out in the field and watching feeders.  A Blue Jay has been visiting one feeder for several weeks and a feeder watcher in Nampa has had an Anna’s Hummingbird that has showed up for several weeks except for count day.  So it’s a count week bird.  A single Greater Yellowlegs was found on Pond Road.  

I haven’t had a chance to start looking at the checklists but tentative counts for Snow Geese (30,000+), Canada Geese (10,000+), and (23,000+) Starlings.  American Kestrel numbers seem to be high with more than 250 individuals.  

Cheryl and I want to thank everyone for supporting our Christmas count, whether you were in the field or helping to feed the participants.