Benewah County Century Count
May 31, 2003
12 PARTICIPANTS Kris Buchler, Janet Callen, Roland Craft, Bill Gundlach, Lisa Hardy, Stephen Johnson, Nancy Mertz, Theresa Potts, Scott Rea, Jan Severtson, Gina Sheridan, Shirley Sturts
Met in Coeur d'Alene 4:30 a.m. arrived home about 7:30 p.m. Started birding along the west side of St. Maries River around 6:00 a.m. Route: West Side of St. Maries River, Benewah Road, Heyburn State Park, St. Maries, St. Maries Sewage Ponds, Mission Point Raod, Goose Haven Road. 114 species of birds
See the chart below to compare 2008 with our 2003 count.
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May 31, 2008
9 PARTICIPANTS Peggy Alderman, Kris Buchler, Janet Callen, Roland Craft, Dick Cripe, Lisa Hardy, Donni Moen, Jan Severtson, Shirley Sturts 5 of us stayed in a cabin and 2 in campground on May 30th and 31st and 2 joined us for the day.
We started off the day by walking around the cabin area and then 3 of us went by bicycle on the Trail to the Coeur d'Alenes while the others covered part of the trail by foot. The bicycle group went west toward Plummer while the others headed east to the bridge. We then joined our two groups and birded by car. We drove to Desmet to check the sewage ponds and then back through Heyburn State Park to St. Maries, Round Lake (Mission Point Road), Goose Haven Road,along the St. Maries River and finished our day along Benewah Lake and back through Heyburn State Park . We had a total of 103 species.
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June 6, 2013 - no write-up
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Species - 130 Total | 2003 | 2008 | 2013 |
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Canada Goose |
x | x | x |
Wood Duck | x | x | x |
Gadwall | x | x | x |
American Wigeon | x | ||
Mallard | x | x | x |
Blue-winged Teal | x | x | x |
Cinnamon Teal | x | x | x |
Northern Shoveler | x | x | x |
Green-winged Teal | x | x | |
Canvasback |
x | ||
Redhead | x | x | x |
Ring-necked Duck | x | x | x |
Lesser scaup | x | x | |
Bufflehead | x | x | x |
Common Goldeneye | x | x | x |
Hooded Merganser | x | x | |
Common Merganser | x | x | x |
Ruddy Duck | x | x | x |
Ring-necked Pheasant | x | x | |
Ruffed Grouse | x | x | x |
Wild Turkey | x | x | x |
California Quail | x | x | x |
Common Loon | x | ||
Pied-billed Grebe | x | x | x |
Red-neckded Grebe | x | x | x |
Eared Grebe | x | ||
Western Grebe | x | x | x |
American White Pelican | x | x | x |
Double-crested Cormorant | x | x | x |
Great Blue Heron | x | x | x |
Turkey Vulture | x | ||
Osprey | x | x | x |
Bald Eagle | x | x | x |
Northern Harrier | x | ||
Cooper's Hawk | x | ||
Red-tailed Hawk | x | x | x |
American Kestrel | x | x | |
Virginia Rail | x | x | x |
Sora | x | x | x |
American Coot | x | x | x |
Killdeer | x | x | x |
Spotted Sandpiper | x | x | x |
Wilson's Snie\pe | x | ||
Wilson's Phalarope | x | x | |
Bonaparte's Gull | x | ||
Ring-billed Gull | x | x | x |
Caspian Tern | x | ||
Rock Pigeon | x | ||
Eurasian Colored-Dove | x | ||
Mourning Dove | x | x | x |
Great Horned Owl | x | ||
Northern Pygmy-Owl | x | ||
Vaux's Swift | x | x | x |
Black-chinned Hummingbird | x | x | x |
Calliope Hummingbird | x | x | x |
Rufous Hummingbird | x | x | |
Belted Kingfisher | x | x | |
Red-naped Sapsuker | x | x | x |
Downy Woodpecker | x | x | |
Hairy Woodpecker | x | x | x |
Northern Flicker | x | x | x |
Pileaed Woodpecker | x | x | x |
Olive-sided Flycatcher | x | x | |
Western Wood-Pewee | x | x | x |
Willow Flycatcher | x | x | |
Least Flcatcher | x | ||
Hammond's Flycatcher | x | x | |
Dusky Flycatcher | x | x | |
Western Flycatcher | x | x | x |
Eastern Kingbird | x | x | x |
Cassin's Vireo | x | x | x |
Warbling Vireo | x | x | x |
Red-eyed Vireo | x | x | x |
Gray Jay | x | ||
Steller's Jay | x | x | |
Black-billed Magpie | x | x | x |
American Crow | x | x | x |
Common Raven | x | x | x |
Tree Swallow | x | x | x |
Violet-green Swallow | x | x | x |
N-Rough-winged Swallow | x | x | x |
Cliff Swallow | x | x | x |
Barn Swallow | x | x | x |
Black-capped Chickadee | x | x | x |
Mountain Chickadee | x | x | x |
Chestnut-b Chickadee | x | x | x |
Red-breasted Nuthatch | x | x | x |
Pygmy Nuthatch | x | ||
House Wren | x | x | x |
Pacific Wren | x | x | |
Marsh Wren | x | ||
Golden-crowned Kinglet | x | ||
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | x | ||
Western Bluebird | x | ||
Swainson's Thrush | x | x | x |
American Robin | x | x | x |
Varied Thrush | x | x | |
Gray Catbird | x | x | x |
European Starling | x | x | x |
Cedar Waxing | x | x | x |
Orange-crowned Warbler | x | x | x |
Nashville Warbler | x | ||
Yellow Warbler | x | x | x |
Yellow-rumped Warbler | x | x | x |
Townsend's Warbler | x | x | x |
American Redstart | x | x | x |
Northern Waterthrush | x | x | x |
MacGillivray's Warbler | x | x | x |
Common Yellowthroat | x | x | x |
Western Tanager | x | x | x |
Spotted Towhee | x | x | x |
Chipping Sparrow | x | x | x |
Savannah Sparrow | x | x | x |
Song Sparrow | x | x | x |
Dark-eyed Junco | x | x | x |
Black-headed Grosbeak | x | x | x |
Lazuli Bunting | x | x | x |
Red-winged Blackbird | x | x | x |
Western Meadowlark | x | x | x |
Yellow-headed Blackbird | x | x | x |
Brewer's Blackbird | x | x | x |
Brown-headed Cowbird | x | x | x |
Bullock's Oriolle | x | x | |
Cassin's Finch | x | ||
House Finch | x | x | x |
Red Crossbill | x | ||
Pine Siskin | x | x | x |
Ameican Goldfinch | x | x | |
Evening Grosbeak | x | x | |
House Sparrow | x | x | x |