Quick update:
– tally sheets that arrived yesterday included a single Ring-necked Pheasant and a single Western Meadowlark – bringing our count day total to 98 species
– Yesterday 2 species were added for count week:

– Tom McCabe saw a Northern Pintail along the greenbelt
– Paul Grabe saw a Peregrine downtown (that was absent or hiding for visits by 4 different people on Saturday 🙂

– also, in addition to the high #s of Bewick’s Wrens, it’s looking like it’ll be a record high count for Anna’s Hummingbirds – still checking/comparing among feeder-watchers but likely 7+!

Thanks again to everyone & let us know if you see a Killdeer or anything else unusual today or tomorrow,
Jay

On Saturday, December 22, 2018, 9:08:45 PM MST, Jay Carlisle carlislejay@yahoo.com [ible] wrote:

Howdy IBLE
Well over 40 people helped out on a very nice winter day today.  Currently sitting at 96 species for count day …
No mega-surprises but a few highlights I heard of:
– 5 owl species!
– multiple Harris’s Sparrows and a returning, now adult-plumaged Golden-crowned Sparrow
– 2+ Double-crested Cormorant (perhaps becoming more regular now?)
– 3+ Anna’s Hummingbirds
– 2 Say’s Phoebe
– 4+ Bewick’s Wrens (among 5 wren species)
A few notable misses:
– Peregrine Falcon (despite a lot of looking downtown)

– Killdeer
– Western Meadowlark (though we have less habitat than historically)
– a few waterfowl including Ruddy Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, & Northern Pintail

Thanks to everyone who helped – especially RL (now retired as compiler to specialize in Zonotrichia sparrow finding 🙂 for passing on key info and Rob Magill for putting it to use in helping compile!
Happy holidays,
Jay