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Paula Bartlett, Pat Hayes and myself conducted the monthly census yesterday
morning from 0730 to 1230. Weather was beautiful and birds were moving. We
ended the day with 60 species which is slightly above the 11 year average
for October (58 species). Three new species were added to the October
list. Those were Wild Turkey, Hairy oodpecker, and Clay-colored Sparrow. I
am not sure what to do with the Wild Turkey. There is a flock of 19+ which
are rumored to have been brought over to the island by a local and
released. Not sure that was a good idea or what ODOW thinks of it. The
Hairy Woodpecker is not unexpected and should have been recorded before. It
is not a common bird at anytime on the island. The Clay-colored Sparrow was
an immature found along the wet area of the North Pond trail.
We began our Northern Saw-whet Owl banding project Saturday evening
(10/18/2008). 11 saw-whets were captured and banded. 2 additional
saw-whets were captured and banded Sunday night. The owls have arrived!!
Census Results:
* Pied-billed Grebe
5393 Double-crested Cormorant
3 Great Blue Heron
172 Canada Goose
53 Mallard
1 Red-breasted Merganser
3 Turkey Vulture
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk
* Red-tailed Hawk
19 Wild Turkey
4 Killdeer
628 Bonapartes Gull
1666 Ring-billed Gull 182 Herring Gull
2 Great Black-backed Gll
900 Gull species?
1 Caspian Tern
13 Mourning Dove
* Eastern Screech-Owl
* Great Horned Owl
* Northern Saw-whet Owl
* Belted Kingfisher
6 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
9 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
11 Northern Flicker
2 Eastern Phoebe
5 Blue-headed Vireo
15 Blue Jay
24 American Crow
3 Horned Lark
71 Black-capped Chickadee
2 Red-breasted Nuthatch
2 White-breasted Nuthatch
11 Brown Creeper
9 Carolina Wren
27 Winter Wren
189 Golden-crowned Kinglet
63 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
44 Kinglet species?
41 Hermit Thrush
193 American Robin
60 European Starling
1 American Pipit
10 Cedar Waxwing
1 Nashville Warber
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
254 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
75 Warbler species?
8 Eastern Towhee
13 Chipping Sparrow
1 Clay-colored Sparrow
5 Song Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
165 White-throated Sparrow
2 White-crowned Sparrow
47 Dark-eyed Junco
25 Northern Cardinal
220 Red-winged Blackbird
4 Rusty Blackbird
3 Common Grackle
1 Brown-headed Cowbird
2 Purple Finch
22 House Finch
4 American Goldfinch
81 House Sparrow
* = observed on the island during census day but not on census route
60 species
10779 individuals observed
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H. Thomas Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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