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Friendship Christmas Bird Count

in Southern Adams County, Wisconsin, USA
featuring the Nature Conservancy's QuincyBluff

Tentative Dates of future Friendship Counts
Sunday, December 30, 2012 . . . Sunday, January 5, 2014 . . . Sunday, January 4, 2015
. . . Sunday, January 3, 2016. . . Monday, January 2, 2017. . . Saturday, December 30, 2017

24 hours of counting all birds within a 7.5 mile radius of
16th Ave and Hwy F, a few miles southwest of the city of Adams,
including early morning for owls
and all day for other birds.

MapQuest - circle center: http://tinyurl.com/fr3bf
Very large file (1.9 MB) - detailed map of entire circle:
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/FriendshipCBCmap.jpg


Counters will meet at noon for lunch
to go over how to complete the count forms, when and where to send the forms.
to discuss sightings from their sectors in the morning and
coordinate which areas to cover in the afternoon.

Join several birders from Milwaukee, Madison, and other parts of Wisconsin.
For more information contact:
Paul Hunter at phunter1 at wi.rr.com
7 areas within the count circle:
1 - West, Buckhorn St Park
2 - North, Roche a Cri St Park
3 - North Central, Klein Creek and Silver Lake
4 - North East, Adams-Friendship
5 - South West, Castle Rock Dam
6 - South Central, Quincy Bluff
7 - South East, Easton and Grand Marsh

Data will be submitted to
Wisconsin Society for Ornithology.
http://www.wsobirds.org/wso_christmas_bird_counts.html
and
National Audubon Society
http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/index.html


When playing owl tapes, play for 1 minute; then listen for 30 seconds.
If there is no response, play for a second minute, and listen again.
If you get a response, do NOT continue playing the tape to make the bird come closer to you.
Remember that large owl species eat smaller owls. If you continue to play a tape,
you could be the reason that a bird is no longer present the following day.
[advice from Bill Mueller fall 2006] http://home.earthlink.net/~iltlawas/index.html

12/30/
2006		12/27/
2007		01/03/
2009		01/02/
2010		01/02/
2011		01/02/
2012
Canada Goose 445 313 79 21 108
Mute Swan 0 1 0 0 0 0
American Black Duck0 0 1 0 0
Mallard 11 19 19 7 12
Common Goldeneye 0 0 29 0 16
Common Merganser 0 3 29 22 17
Ruffed Grouse 3 1 1 0 5
Wild Turkey 277 78 257 287 248
Great Blue Heron 1 0 0 0 0 0
Bald Eagle 16 3 9 7 8
Norther Harrier 1 0 0 0 0
Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 1 0 0 0
Cooper's Hawk 0 1 1 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 0 0 1
Red-tailed Hawk 10 6 9 15 6
Rough-legged Hawk 2 1 1 0 6
Golden Eagle 1 0 0 0 3 2
American Kestrel 2 1 0 0 1
Sandhill Crane 1 0 0 0 0 0
Rock Pigeon 214 46 117 301 178
Mourning Dove 6 51 100 51 101
Eastern Screech Owl 1 0 0 0 0 1
Great Horned Owl 6 2 0 1 2
Red-headed Woodpecker 2 0 7 2 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 13 9 33 25 16
Downy Woodpecker 27 19 66 73 47
Hairy Woodpecker 20 9 14 20 12
Northern Flicker 2 0 0 0 0
Pileated Woodpecker 5 3 4 4 4
Northern Shrike 2 1 1 1 1
Blue Jay 10 222 392 314 188
American Crow 589 172 436 309 413
Common Raven 4 12 10 12 10
Horned Lark 0 0 0 9 0
Black-capped Chickadee 193 139 318 319 323
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 10 27 13 13
White-breasted Nuthatch 55 35 93 77 83
Brown Creeper 0 0 7 3 3
Tufted Titmouse 4 3 18 24 7
Hermit Thrush 0 0 0 1 0 0
American Robin 0 28 17 67 0 >20
European Starling 46 173 69 51 65
Cedar Waxwing 37 185 197 18 0 >100
Bohemian Waxwing 0 0 0 0 0 1
American Tree Sparrow 68 4 113 88 193
Field Sparrow 0 0 0 1 0
Fox Sparrow 0 0 0 1 0
White-throated Sparrow 1 0 0 0 0
Dark-eyed Junco 174 104 403 468 379
Snow Bunting 0 0 0 30 25
Northern Cardinal 11 13 15 38 29
Purple Finch 2 8 6 17 13
House Finch 4 4 2 5 0
White-winged crossbill 0 0 139 0 0 0
Common redpoll 0 0 39 0 0 ~50
Pine Siskin 0 1 22 0 0
American Goldfinch 50 140 164 71 19
House Sparrow 28 95 64 51 20
.
# of Species 39 40 40 39 37
# of Individuals 2344 1919 2825
# of Counters 12 14
# of Party Hours 31


http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eiltlawas/id8.html
See "How not to do a CBC" at bottom of page.

versus

The Art of the Christmas Bird Count
http://home.pacifier.com/%7Empatters/cbc/acbc.html

Why do people from Milwaukee go to Adams County in winter to count birds?

Paul Hunter has a very strong personal connection to Quincy Bluff in southern Adams County.

There is a scientific purpose also.
Adams County is a particularly under covered part of the state as far as Christmas Bird Counts.

Finally, there are some interesting birds to see:
Ruffed Grouse, Bald and Golden Eagles, Red-headed and Pileated Woodpeckers, Ravens, and Tufted Titmice,

Accomodations in southern Adams County
Map of Motels
Super 8 Motel-Adams 204 E. 2nd Street, Adams, WI (608) 339-6088