Sunday marked the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Across the Northern hemisphere, tens of thousands of birders spent the day collecting data and counting birds. On the Vineyard, teams spread out across the Island to record over 120 species and over 17,000 individual birds.

An eastern bluebird seen on Jow Walker Road. – Ray Ewing
Robert Culbert of the Long Point team. – Ray Ewing
About 150 hooded mergansers were counted at the head of Town Cove. – Ray Ewing
Robert Culbert and John Clark walk out to Long Point. – Ray Ewing
Several belted kingfishers were seen. – Ray Ewing
Looking for oceanic birds from the dunes. – Ray Ewing
A great blue heron in Tisbury Great Pond near Sepiessa. – Ray Ewing
John Clark walks the field at Scrubby Neck Farm – Ray Ewing
An immature snowy egret seen. – Ray Ewing
The Long Point team walks down Joe Walker Road. – Ray Ewing
Gulls take off from a frigid Oyster Pond. – Ray Ewing
On the beach near Oyster Pond. – Ray Ewing
A red-breasted nuthatch hops along a branch. – Ray Ewing
Robert Culbert is team captain at Long Point. – Ray Ewing
Prevalent ice made made some species hard to come by. – Ray Ewing
Walking the strand. – Ray Ewing
Savannah sparrows in the dunes at Long Point. – Ray Ewing

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