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The Cedar Creek CBC covers the central southern portion of Essex County, Ontario including Kingsville, Harrow, McGregor, Essex and a portion of the Lake Erie shoreline.
2001 Cedar Creek Christmas Bird Count
The seventeenth Cedar Creek CBC on December 15th, 2001 attracted thirty-two participants who tallied 88 species and 80,731 individuals. Ross's Goose, Surf Scoter, Wild Turkey and Sandhill Crane were recorded for the first time. Record high counts were observed for Double-crested Cormorant, Snow Goose, Ring-necked Duck, Bufflehead, Cooper's Hawk, Carolina Wren, Black-capped Chickadee, Northern Cardinal and Red-winged Blackbird. Other rare species included Virginia Rail, Northern Goshawk and one exotic game bird, a Chukar.
Weather conditions were much improved from last year with no snow cover, temperatures above freezing and open water on the creeks and lake. At the end of the day everyone gathered at Tom and Peggy Hurst's for the tally and a pot luck dinner.
PARTICIPANTS: Area 1 Kingsville: (40 species, 16 party-hr) Gordon Barnett, Paul DesJardins, Pauline Renaud, Heather Campbell, Dean Ware, Peggy Hurst, Sarah Kuipers. Area 2 Cedar Beach: (47 species, 21 party-hr) Betty Learmouth, Kathy Lesperance, Margaret Calder, Anne Muir, Ron Muir, David D'hondt, Bob Wickett. Area 3 Gesto: (27 species, 10 party-hr) Shirley Grondin, JoAnn Grondin, Phil Roberts, Gary Balkwill, Dorothy Balkwill, Bruno Sfalcin. Area 4 South Colchester: (70 species, 20 party-hr) Thomas Hurst, Keith Burk, Jim Burk, Randy Horvath, Steve Pike. Area 5 Harrow: (53 species, 12 party-hr) Paul Pratt, Karen Cedar, June Hurley, Dan Dufour, Amy Tesolin, Kristin Fawdry, Fred Urie.
The list below is divided into four columns: (SPECIES); (#) the number of counts recording this species; (MAX) maximum number recorded for a single count; (2001) results for 2001 count. Species recorded during count week but never on the count are shown as (cw).
