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The 12th March census was conducted on Friday, March 20, 2009.
Participants were Sandy Tkach and myself. The ferry is still not
running but is to start on Thursday, March 26. Weather was cool with
a NW wind to start and finishing with a NE wind of 5-15 mph. Temps
were 26-45 and skies were cloudy to PC. Muskrats (5+) were active
along the shoreline but only 3 deer were observed on the census route.
The average number of species for a March route has been 55 with an
average number of individuals at 5573. We had 53 species and 5501
individuals. North winds cut our number of species as we had no
migrant raptors or larks/longspurs, etc. Highlights were our first
Common Redpolls for a March census route, an adult Lesser Black-backed
Gull and a second-year White-crowned Sparrow. We also missed Mourning
Dove on the route for the first time.
97 Canada Goose
4 Wood Duck
52 Mallard
8 Ring-necked Duck
671 Greater Scaup
45 Lesser Scaup
342 Bufflehead
824 Common Goldeneye
14 Hooded Merganser
18 Common Merganser
755 Red-breasted Merganser
5 Horned Grebe
13 Double-crested Cormorant
4 Great Blue Heron
1 Turkey Vulture
3 Bald Eagle
* Wild Turkey
4 Killdeer
22 Bonaparte's Gull
49 Ring-billed Gull
127 Herring Gull
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
4 Great Black-backed Gull
* Mourning Dove
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
11 Downy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
2 Eastern Phoebe
2 Blue Jay
23 American Crow
54 Black-capped Chickadee
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
4 Carolina Wren
11 Golden-crowned Kinglet
2 Hermit Thrush
311 American Robin
62 European Starling
3 Yellow-rumped Warbler
* Eastern Towhee
2 Fox Sparrow
14 Song Sparrow
26 White-throated Sparrow
1 White-crowned Sparrow
55 Dark-eyed Junco
44 Northern Cardinal
1211 Red-winged Blackbird
13 Rusty Blackbird
522 Common Grackle
11 Brown-headed Cowbird
4 Purple Finch
12 House Finch
5 Common Redpoll
* Pine Siskin
2 American Goldfinch
22 House Sparrow
53 Total Species
5501 Total individuals
* = species observed on island but not on census route
The April census route is currently scheduled for April 18, 2009 and
the May census on May 15, 2009.
--
H. Thomas Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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