2004 BAIN BIRD COUNT:

Peregrine Falcon

by Dan McAskill, Ray Cooke, David Seeler, Eric Marcum, Bill Bowerbank, Gerald, Gene, & Richard MacDonald, Paul & Arlene McGuigan, Jean Watts, and Elaine Murley

year’s Bain Bird Count. The participants are listed above. One team birded from 6:00 am to 5:30 pm and covered 80 km while the other team went from 2:00 am to 9:00 pm and covered some 480 kilometres. The remaining person provided observations from her home. Together, they observed and/or heard 139 species. All enjoyed the days outing and had a great time during the trip. Needless to say, the species bolded in the text marked highlights of

the day with some participants obtaining their first Island records.

Common Loon Pied—billed Grebe Northern Gannet Double—crested Cormorant Great Cormorant American Bittem Great Blue Heron Little Blue Heron Canada Goose

Wood Duck

Gadwall

American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard

Blue-winged Teal Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Common Eider

Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Common Goldeneye Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Osprey

Bald Eagle

Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Dark phase Rough-legged Hawk UlD Buteo like raptor American Kestrel

Merlin

Peregrine Falcon Ruffed Grouse

Virginia Rail

Sora

Black-bellied Plover Piping Plover

Killdeer

Greater Yellowlegs Willet

Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semi-palmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Iceland Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull

Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern

Common Tern

Black Guillemot

Rock Dove

Mourning Dove

Great Horned Owl Barred Owl

Long-eared Owl

On 2 am, the first team assembled in Charlottetown and commenced the 2004 Bain Bird Count. It was warm for a change with the temperature starting at 14°C and it was quite calm. From then on, the temperature dropped and, in mid morning, the winds freshened with the winds mounting to over 20 km/hr by late afternoon. After mid-moming, the showers commenced and went intermittently for the balance of the day. Two teams and a single person provided reports for this

Northern Saw-whet Owl Ruby-throath Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Three-toed Woodpecker Northern Flicker

Alder Flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Kingbird Blue-headed (Solitary) Vireo Red-eyed Vireo

Blue Jay

American Crow

Common Raven

Tree Swallow

Bank Swallow

Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Boreal Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Veery

Swainson‘s Thrush Hermit Thrush

American Robin

Gray Catbird

Brown Thrasher