Compiled by Stan Riggs, with help on
feeders by Jim Wolford
 

Our weather on Count Day was quite varied (i.e., the Maritimes in spades!);
thankfully we had snow-cover from the storm of Dec. 18 (very well timed);
most of the day was fairly warm (a few degrees above 0 C.), often sunny
(argh!); in afternoon a stiff wind from the northwest developed and
temperature dropped, then the wind abated a lot and it was warm again.
 

We had 44 field observers in 24 field-parties plus 82 feeder-watchers at 62
feeders.
 

Our totals were 72 species on Count Day plus 10 more for Count Week (plus 2
more species seen since Count Week).
 

Great Blue Heron - 2
Canada Goose - 854
Green-winged Teal - 60
American Black Duck - 1259
Mallard - 504
Northern Pintail - 4
Northern Shoveler - 2
Common Eider - 2
Surf Scoter - 2
White -winged Scoter - 7
 

Common Goldeneye - 9
Common Merganser - 13
Bald Eagle - 163 adults: 152 immatures: 5 unknown = total of 320 Bald Eagles
Northern Harrier - 16
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 6 (one had almost no tail!)
Northern Goshawk - 3
Red-tailed Hawk - 133 (including one nearly all-white individual)(10th winter?)
Rough-legged Hawk - 7
Merlin - 7
Ring-necked Pheasant - 235
 

Ruffed Grouse - 5
Killdeer - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 265
Herring Gull - 30,610 (exactly!)
Iceland Gull - 10
Great Black-backed Gull - 3586
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1
Rock Dove - 873
Mourning Dove - 1683
Barred Owl - 2
 

Short-eared Owl - 3
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 90
Hairy Woodpecker -49
Northern Flicker - 46
Pileated Woodpecker - 9
Horned Lark - 280
Gray Jay - 6
Blue Jay - 473
American Crow - 17,658 (exactly!)
 

Common Raven - 432
Black-capped Chickadee - 1069
Boreal Chickadee - 127
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 140
White-breasted Nuthatch - 21
Brown Creeper - 16
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 184
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 (one even SANG once!)
American Robin - 34
Northern Mockingbird - 7
 

European Starling - 30,032 (exactly!)
Common Yellowthroat - 3
Northern Cardinal - 3
American Tree Sparrow - 308
Savannah Sparrow - 16
Song Sparrow - 120
Swamp Sparrow - 3
White-throated Sparrow - 24
White-crowned Sparrow - 2
Chipping Sparrow - 13
 

Dark-eyed Junco - 573
Snow Bunting - 82
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
Common Grackle - 4
Brown-headed Cowbird - 8
Pine Grosbeak - 8
Purple Finch - 50
White-winged Crossbill - 234
Pine Siskin - 53
American Goldfinch - 1028 (plus one blackish melanistic bird in Count Week)
 

Evening Grosbeak - 150
House Sparrow - 1477 (including one all-white near-albino)
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Total of 72 species on Count Day
Count Week Species (10) for Wolfville Xmas Count, 1998
 

Red-throated Loon
Horned Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Virginia Rail
Bonaparte's Gull
 

Black Guillemot
Long-eared Owl
Wilson's Warbler
Tanager sp. (prob. Summer? Tanager)
Lapland Longspur
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As I (JW) write these lists above (Jan. 4/99), two more species have been
found in our circle since our Count Week (of course there's no way to tell
if they were present but undetected earlier):
 

American Pipit - Jan. 1 & 3/99 (at least 5 individuals)
Field Sparrow - Dec. 26/98
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