2015 Fall Count

9/19/15
The Carroll County Bird Club Fall Count took place on September 19, 2015. Twenty-one observers in twelve parties covered a total of 40.5 miles on foot and 222.5 miles in vehicles. We also had quite few feeder-watchers this time.
4944 individual birds were recorded, belonging to 93 different species. This last number was down a bit compared to previous years. Counters commented that it was a slow day. Dense fog at some locations in the morning probably didn’t help.
Still, there were some good birds seen including 14 warbler and 5 vireo species. There were write-ins for three of the latter. Warbling, Yellow-throated, and Philadelphia were all recorded. Flycatchers also put on a good show, with some actually singing. Least, Yellow-bellied, and Acadian were very good finds. Maureen and Dave hosted the Tally Rally. Thanks. The food and the atmosphere were great.
Our next count will be the Mid-winter Count, on January 16th, 2016. Please try to save the date. I will be contacting you when we get closer to the time. Again, thanks to everyone for counting. I have listed below the top 20 bird species in terms of numbers.  Most, but not all, are pretty predictable.

Canada Goose	719
European Starling	520
American Crow	291
Blue Jay	259
Gray Catbird	225
Red-winged Blackbird	183
Carolina Chickadee	175
American Goldfinch	168
Turkey Vulture	163
Mourning Dove	157
Northern Cardinal	155
Rock Pigeon	152
House Sparrow	141
Fish Crow	130
Tufted Titmouse	117
Carolina Wren	90
Eastern Bluebird and American Robin	83
Chimney Swift	81
Red-bellied Woodpecker	79
Northern Mockingbird	70