Afton Lifetime Statistics Tracking

Considering my desire to use Afton State Park as my "bulk birding" location for this years state wide big year I wanted to get a stats tracking post up for the park. This is where I'll keep my visit statistics for Afton to give me an idea of my trip count, miles hiked, species seen, life birds, etc...

This will be posted on the side of the main blog webpage along with my overall statistics post that is also continually updated.

Lifetime Bird Species Count:

146 at end of 2017
181 as of 6/4/2018
183 as of 7/31/2018
186 as of 9/6/2018
189 as of 10/2/2018

Single Year Count: 180 species (10/2)

Total Trips in 2018: 50 (9/4)
Total Miles Hiked in 2018: 215

January: 20 species seen
February: 21 species seen
March: 42 species seen
April:109 species seen
May: 104 species seen (Can really tell I went on a 10 day trip away from Afton missing the prime migration window for Warblers and other species otherwise this should have been higher than April.)
June: 57
July: 47
August: 49
September: 86
October: 40

Best 2018 Personal Finds:
1. Golden Eagle
2. Ruffed Grouse
3. Solitary Sandpiper (Really tough with a flooded river and no other habitat.)
4. Sora (Also super tough, found in flooded forest.)
5. Lesser Yellowlegs (First ever in the park for me.)
6. Northern Saw-whet Owl
7. Acadian Flycatcher
8. Pine Warbler
9. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
10. Conecticut Warbler
11. Purple Finch

All Time Best Bird Species:
1. Bell's Vireo (2016)
2. Black-billed Cuckoo (2014)
3. Black-throated Blue Warbler (2014)
4. Common Raven (2018)
5. Golden Eagle (2018)
6. Henslow's Sparrow (2014)
7. Hooded Warbler (2015)
8. Horned Grebe (2016)
9. Long-eared Owl (2016)
10. Northern Saw-whet Owl
11. Ruffed Grouse (2017)
12. Short-eared Owl (2015)
13. Townsend's Solitaire (2016)
14. Western Kingbird (2017)
15. Yellow-breasted Chat (2017)
16. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (2018)

Mammals: 9 [White-tailed Deer, Coyote, Grey Squirrel, Red Squirrel, 13-Lined Ground Squirrel, Fox Squirrel, Muskrat, Eastern Chipmunk, Eastern Cottontail]
Reptile: 2 [Snapping Turtle, Northern Map Turtle]

*Total number of species seen by day. Meaning you can tick a Chickadee once per day every day of the year.