Every animal leaves traces of what it was, man alone leaves traces of what he created. Jacob Bronowski.

Christmas Bird Counts for 2005 can be viewed in Adobe Reader below.

The Woodstock Bird Count was held on Saturday December 17th of 2005. There was more snow than typical and standing water was all frozen (also atypical), but there was a good berry crop. That meant that we had next to no waterfowl, but there were some great birds, mostly associated with the abundant grapes and other berries. All of the southern Ontario bird counts experienced higher than usual numbers of birds that are associated with berries and grass seeds (sparrows and Hermit Thrush for example). To see online summaries of all the Christmas Bird Counts, go to http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/. The Woodstock count total for species was down somewhat from our average of 60 (56), but was still respectable because of the numerous rare birds that were found. Below are the highlights and lowlights of the count:

The database for the Woodstock Christmas Bird Counts from 1960-2005 are large and in table format. We have offered these counts in Adobe pdf. format and can be read with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader

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