I spent the last 4 days on Kelley's Island in an attempt to monitor
migrating Northern Saw-whet Owls.  My efforts were unrewarded, much to my
surprise.  Evidently, the birds are not migrating across the lake in
numbers, yet !  A southern Ohio station has banded 6 birds to date this fall
and a bird at Mentor Headlands seem to be the only saw-whets around.  I will
be on Kelley's for the next three weekends trying.

Other bird highlights were:

24+     Common Loons  - most showed up on Monday (10/30)
75+     Horned Grebes - showed up on Monday (10/30)
1       Lesser Scaup  - 10/31 female
6       Surf Scoters  - 10/30 and 10/31 o north side of island 
                                east of state park
115+    Bufflehead        - showed up on Monday
1       Merlin    - 10/30
1       Common Tern       - 10/28
3       Eastern Phoebe - 10/30
1       Red-eyed Vireo - 10/30
1       Indigo Bunting - 10/30



Tom Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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