Conducted the monthly census Saturday. Participants were Tom & Paula
Bartlett, June Campbell, Brian & Tyler McClain, and Sandy Tkach. Weather
was beautiful with winds out of the SE 5-10 mph. However, species number
were down somewhat from previous days as it appears many birds, especially
waterfowl, left overnight. We managed to log 63 species and 4241
individuals along the route. This is the 10th year for the April count.
72 Double-crested Cormorant
26 Great Blue Heron
70 Canada Goose
2 Wood Duck
72 Mallard
2 Green-winged Teal
1 Ring-necked Duck
38 Lesser Scaup
555 Bufflehead
24 American Goldeneye
2 Hooded Merganser
197 Red-breasted Merganser
11 Turkey Vulture
* Osprey
* Bald Eagle
* Northern Harrier
* Sharp-shinned Hawk
6 Cooper's Hawk
1 American Kestrel
2 American Coot
9 Killdeer
3 Greater Yellowlegs
359 Bonaparte's Gull
53 Herring Gull
2 Forster's Tern
9 Mourning Dove
1 Great Horned Owl
3 Red-bellied Woodpecker
4 Yellow-belied Sapsucker
11 Downy Woodpecker
15 Yellow-shafted Flicker
1 Blue-headed Vireo
* Blue Jay
8 American Crow
3 Purple Martin
208 Tree Swallow
1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
31 Barn Swallow
26 Black-capped Chickadee
23 Brown Creeper
3 Carolina Wren
6 Winter Wren
27 Golden-crowned Kinglet
15 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
41 Hermit Thrush
381 American Robin
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Brown Thrasher
96 European Starling
3 Yellow-rumped Warbler
32 Northern Cardinal
1 Eastern Towhee
34 Chipping Sparrow
6 Field Sparrow
2 Savannah Sparrow
10 Song Sparrow
1 White-throated Sparrow
2 White-crowned Sparrow
28 Dark-eyed Junco
818 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Eastern Meadowlark
8 Rusty Blackbird
651 Common Grackle
46 Brown-headed Cowbird
116 House Finch
5 American Goldfinch
53 House Sparrow
Noteworthy missing species which are usually observed on the April census:
Common Loon, Blue-winged Teal, Greater Scaup, Ring-billed Gull, Great
Black-backed Gull, Caspian Tern, Belted Kingfisher, Eastern Phoebe, and
Swamp Sparrow.
Tom Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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