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Belmont Area birds
Six Years of Birding Observation by David Lange and Menotomy Bird Club

Christmas Bird Count at Alewife 2006

December 17, 2006

Thanks very much for your help on the Greater Boston CBC. We found 54 species in Belmont with 1986 individuals not counting the robin roost with 1070 robins this year (405 last year and 2415 three years ago) and 930 starlings.

Belmont contributed the only Canvasbacks and the Lincoln's Sparrow to the Greater Boston count; both were at Fresh Pond. Other species of note for Belmont were the Ruby-crowned Kinglet and Savannah Sparrow at the incinerator and 3 Fox Sparrows at the Belmont Springs Country Club dump.

Thanks again for your help and hope to see you next year.
Happy Holidays,
David Lange

Alewife numbers: Canada Goose 10
Mallard 11
Hooded Merganser 2
Common Merganser 3
Great Blue Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 12
Downy Woodpecker 5
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Carolina Wren 2
American Robin 1070 at roost
European Starling 930 at roost
Am Tree Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 12
White-throated Sparrow 6
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Northern Cardinal 3
American Goldfinch 7



Greater Boston Christmas Bird Count, Belmont
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Species:
Common Loon 1 2
Pied-billed Grebe 3 2 3 1 3
Red-necked Grebe 1
Great Blue Heron 1 1 1 3
Canada Goose 110 52 9 135 119 453
Mute Swan 1 2
Averican Wigeon 9 1
American Black Duck 9 14 7 25 20 12
Mallard 77 205 100 254 261 145
Northern Shoveler 1
Green-winged Teal 3 2 1
Canvasback 76 48 2 11 30 35
Ring-necked Duck 6 7 11
Greater Scaup 1 2 2 2 2
Lesser Scaup 7 2
Bufflehead 1
Hooded Merganser 28 15 6 5 10 16
Common Merganser 14 15 65 5 3 8
Ruddy Duck 3 26 3 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 2 1 1
Cooper's Hawk 1 2 2 2
Red-tailed Hawk 4 6 6 6 7 5
American Kestrel 1 1
Peregrine Falcon 1 1 1 1 1
American Coot 10 6 1 5 5
Ring-billed Gull 30 92 72 38 91 66
Herring Gull 13 37 22 8 25 43
Great Black-backed Gull 2 16 1 1 2
Rock Dove 12 102 60 25 17 113
Mourning Dove 24 33 16 41 44 121
Eastern Screech-Owl 1 4 11 9 2 13
Great Horned Owl 1 1 2 1 1
Barred Owl 1 1
Belted Kingfisher 1 2 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 3 3 1 2 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 13 13 11 19 16 34
Hairy Woodpecker 1 3 1 4
Northern Flicker 1 5 3 2 3
Blue Jay 45 42 32 2 32 51
American Crow 22 402 55 29 273 15
Fish Crow 1 2
Black-capped Chickadee 70 69 64 121 71 87
Tufted Timouse 42 22 12 44 33 20
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 31 18 11 18 16 15
Brown Creeper 2 1 1 2
Carolina Wren 10 8 6 9 4 8
Winter Wren 2 4
House or Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 7 3 1 5 1 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 1 2
Eastern Bluebird 3
Hermit Thrush 3 1 1 3 1
American Robin 580 68 184 36 131 94
Gray Catbird 1 1
Northern Mockingbird 16 18 6 17 10 8
European Starling 1400 720 33 153 253 73
Cedar Waxwing 20 2 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Eastern Towhee 2
American Tree Sparrow 12 8 4 15 8 23
Savannah Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow 1 3 3 3
Song Sparrow 14 30 17 51 27 62
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Swamp Sparrow 1 1 1
White-throated Sparrow 25 40 14 24 46 105
Dark-eyed Junco 60 33 19 75 19 83
Northern Cardinal 26 15 7 25 25 27
Red-winged Blackbird 1 5 2
Common Grackle 1 1 1 1
House Finch 15 35 23 23 19 20
American Goldfinch 24 40 82 66 104 24
House Sparrow 22 22 37 47 49 153
Total individuals 2900 2311 1021 1396 1812 1986
Total species 54 57 46 49 55 54
Robin roost 1915 327 2415 1060 405 1070
Starling roost 2600 930
Ted Atkinson x x x x x x
Ken Barney x
Fred Bouchard x
Tim Christensen-Kirby x
Jon Damian x x x x x x
Ann Gurka x
Gary Gurka x
Mary Lou Kaufman x
Dave Lange x x x x x x
Ellen Mass x
Bob Petersen x x
Steven Simpson x x
Carol Thrope x