On Saturday December 30th I did my usual CBC route with Natasha, Sue, Jay and Heidi and we totaled 45 species for the day. The most remarkable thing about the count was a record high temperature for the count at 62 degrees - beating 57 degrees from 1980. This meant that I spent half the count in a T-shirt!
We began the day with Great-tailed Grackles at WalMart and Brewer's Blackbirds at Little America and ended with European Starlings at Purina, but pent most of our day on and around the the golf course. The wind had gotten up before we got to Walnut Canyon and so we saw little out there. Our 45 species did not include anything too special but Killdeer and Northern Pintail had not be recorded since 2011 and 2010 respectively. Seeing 20 Red Crossbills (in two flocks) was a personal day high for me.
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