For those of you who participated in the 2007 Christmas Count, thank you very much for helping us. To those who were in previous counts, I hope you will be able to join us another year. We had 19 parties with 72 participants, and covered all but one area and some of the gated communities. The total number of species is 118, as compared with 114 last year, not a significant difference.

Here are some of the best finds of our count on Dec. 30, 2006, not reported last year, and seen on fewer than half of Stuart's 43 counts:

There was 1 Roseate Spoonbill seen by Greg Kaufman's party in the Savannas.

A Marsh Wren was seen by Phillip Kline in Liz Albertson's area in Jensen Beach and the Savannas.

Jack Hailman's party picked up 5 Piping Plovers and 50 American Widgeon.

Cedar Waxwings have reappeared on the scene, with over 200 seen by 4 parties.

In striking numbers were American Robins (over 3000, vs. 81 last year) and Tree Swallows (about 2700, 10 times more than last year.

Again, thanks for participating and I hope you will be able to do it again next year. - Liz Elizabeth D. Hailman Compiler, Stuart Christmas Bird Count ehailman@wisc.edu

118 species - 20472 individuals

5 Common Loon 22 Pied-billed Grebe 68 Northern Gannet 647 Brown Pelican 192 Double-crested Cormorant 125 Anhinga 38 Magnificent Frigatebird 110 Great Blue Heron 159 Great Egret 105 Snowy Egret 151 Little Blue Heron 63 Tricolored Heron 575 Cattle Egret 13 Green Heron 3 Black-cr. Night-Heron 9 Yellow-cr. Night-Heron 1564 white Ibis 251 Glossy Ibis 1 Roseate Spoonbill 42 Wood Stork 191 Black Vulture 585 Turkey Vulture 51 Muscovy Duck 8 Wood Duck 50 American Wigeon 7 Mallard 7 Mottled-Mallard hybrid 355 Mottled Duck 84 Blue-winged Teal 1 Northern Shoveler 18 Ring-necked Duck 795 Lesser Scaup 6 Hooded Merganser 15 Red-breasted Merganser 155 Osprey 8 Bald Eagle 4 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 5 Cooper's Hawk 22 Red-shouldered Hawk

16 Red-tailed Hawk 113 American Kestrel 1 Purple Gallinule 94 Common Moorhen 56 American Coot 93 Sandhill Crane 32 Black-bellied Plover 5 Piping Plover 121 Killdeer 5 American Oystercatcher 1 Greater Yellowlegs 106 Willet 17 Spotted Sandpiper 27 Ruddy Turnstone 154 Sanderling 1 Western Sandpiper 23 Dunlin 2 Wilson's Snipe 445 Laughing Gull 3 Bonaparte's Gull 431 Ring-billed Gull 20 Herring Gull 12 Great Black-backed Gull 6 Caspian Tern 39 Royal Tern 2 Sandwich Tern 44 Forster's Tern 56 Black Skimmer 307 Rock Pigeon (Rock Dove) 78 Eurasian Collared-Dove 48 White-winged Dove 453 Mourning Dove 11 Common Ground-Dove 20 Monk Parakeet 2 Great Horned Owl 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird (male) 4 Archilochus sp. 1 hummingbird sp. 47 Belted Kingfisher

54 Red-bellied Woodpecker 8 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 18 Downy Woodpecker 7 Pileated Woodpecker 27 Eastern Phoebe 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 30 Loggerhead Shrike 3 White-eyed Vireo 11 Blue-headed Vireo 44 Blue Jay 10 Florida Scrub-Jay 147 American Crow 2299 Fish Crow 2684 Tree Swallow 10 Carolina Wren 1 Marsh Wren 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 49 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3050 American Robin 70 Gray Catbird 157 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher 284 European Starling 203 Cedar Waxwing 723 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler 16 Yellow-throated Warbler 44 Pine Warbler 6 Prairie Warbler 185 Palm Warbler 2 Black-and-white Warbler 21 Common Yellowthroat 9 Eastern Towhee 1 Savannah Sparrow 72 Northern Cardinal 7 Painted Bunting 51 Red-winged Blackbird 429 Common Grackle 289 Boat-tailed Grackle 10 Brown-headed Cowbird 16 House Sparrow