35th Christmas Bird Count, Woodhouse
Report by Adam Timpf These are the results of the 35th Woodhouse Christmas Bird Count (CBC) held on Sunday December 19th, 2021. The Woodhouse CBC is centred 7 km east of Simcoe, at the crossroads of Highway 3 and Cockshutt Road at Renton, and roughly covers from Port Dover to Waterford and just west of Simcoe to east of Jarvis. Conditions were pretty much ideal with temps just below freezing, little to no wind, clear skies, and a light dusting of snow on the ground. 31 field birders covered the count area split between 17 groups, plus 5 feeder watchers. While I initially reported we tallied 94 species, and then 95, I can confirm we tallied 94 species on the day which ties last year's count as the 3rd highest species total ever, and the highest since the record of…continue reading