A Durham Christmas Bird Count Along Ellerbe Creek

December 17, 2002

Josh Rose, Duke University

Bird

Count

Great Blue Heron

6

Canada Goose

141

Hooded Merganser

3

all in the beaver swamp

Turkey Vulture

12

all but one at Glennstone

Red-tailed Hawk

3

Hamlin Rd, Glenn-Veasey, I-85

American Kestrel

2

both on Hamlin Rd

American Woodcock

1

Hamlin Rd, lekking and calling after dark

Ring-billed Gull

75

about 1/2 flyovers, 1/2 in K-Mart parking lot

Mourning Dove

14

Belted Kingfisher

1

beaver swamp

Red-headed Woodpecker

1

beaver swamp

Red-bellied Woodpecker

7

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

2

beaver swamp, 6 acre woods

Downy Woodpecker

7

Northern Flicker

10

Eastern Phoebe

4

Blue Jay

6

American Crow

16

Carolina Chickadee

15

Tufted Titmouse

7

White-breasted Nuthatch

2

railroad and beaver swamp

Brown-headed Nuthatch

2

beaver swamp and 6 acre wood

Carolina Wren

17

House Wren

1

railroad

Winter Wren

3

railroad and beaver swamp

Golden-crowned Kinglet

4

railroad

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

10

Eastern Bluebird

14

American Robin

25

Northern Mockingbird

6

American Pipit

1

flying overhead along the railroad tracks

Cedar Waxwing

16

beaver swamp

European Starling

11

Yellow-rumped Warbler

32

Pine Warbler

1

railroad

Palm Warbler

1

Hamlin road

Northern Cardinal

20

Rufous-sided Towhee

13

Chipping Sparrow

1

Glenn-Veasey House

Field Sparrow

3

railroad and beaver swamp

Fox Sparrow

1

lower Ellerbe gamelands

Song Sparrow

33

Swamp Sparrow

2

gamelands and beaver swamp

White-throated Sparrow

44

Dark-eyed Junco

36

House Finch

34

American Goldfinch

36

mostly along the railroad tracks

House Sparrow

2

behind Super K-Mart