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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
( third Sat in the CBC count period 12/14 to 1/5
12/28 at the earliest and 1/3 at the latest. )
Jan 2, 2010 . . . Jan 1, 2011 . . . Dec 31, 2011

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 and late evening for owls
and all day for other birds.

MapQuest - circle center: http://tinyurl.com/fr3bf
Very large file - detailed map of entire circle:
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/Quincy%20Bluff%20CBC%20circle%202006a.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, Appleton and Adams County
on the second year of this new count circle.
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 the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology.
http://www.wsobirds.org/wso_christmas_bird_counts.html

Part of the National Audubon's efforts since 2007. 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		01/01/
2011		12/31/
2011
Canada Goose 445 313 79
Mute Swan 0 1 0
American Black Duck0 0 1
Mallard 11 19 19
Common Goldeneye 0 0 29
Common Merganser 0 3 29
Ruffed Grouse 3 1 1
Wild Turkey 277 78 257
Great Blue Heron 1 0 0
Bald Eagle 16 3 9
Norther Harrier 1 0 0
Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 1 0
Cooper's Hawk 0 1 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 0
Red-tailed Hawk 10 6 9
Rough-legged Hawk 2 1 1
Golden Eagle 1 0 0
American Kestrel 2 1 0
Sandhill Crane 1 0 0
Rock Pigeon 214 46 117
Mourning Dove 6 51 100
Eastern Screech Owl 1 0 0
Great Horned Owl 6 2 0
Red-headed Woodpecker 2 0 7
Red-bellied Woodpecker 13 9 33
Downy Woodpecker 27 19 66
Hairy Woodpecker 20 9 14
Northern Flicker 2 0 0
Pileated Woodpecker 5 3 4
Northern Shrike 2 1 1
Blue Jay 10 222 392
American Crow 589 172 436
Common Raven 4 12 10
Black-capped Chickadee 193 139 318
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 10 27
White-breasted Nuthatch 55 35 93
Brown creeper 0 0 7
Tufted Titmouse 4 3 18
American Robin 0 28 17
European Starling 46 173 69
Cedar Waxwing 37 185 197
American Tree Sparrow 68 4 113
White-throated Sparrow 1 0 0
Dark-eyed Junco 174 104 403
Northern Cardinal 11 13 15
Purple Finch 2 8 6
House Finch 4 4 2
White-winged crossbill 0 0 139
Common redpoll 0 0 39
Pine Siskin 0 1 22
American Goldfinch 50 140 164
House Sparrow 28 95 64
.
# of Species 39 40 40
# of Individuals 2344 1919
# of Counters
# of Party Hours


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:
He comemorates the lives of his first son and his parents there.

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.
We saw a Golden Eagle in 2006 and a couple of over-wintering Red-headed Woodpeckers in 2007.

Accomodations in southern Adams County
Map of Motels
Super 8 Motel-Adams 204 E. 2nd Street, Adams, WI (608) 339-6088
List species and individuals by the 7 areas. Golden-eye, brown creeper, white-winged crossbill and common redpoll are new species for 2009