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Normally scheduled 1 Jan, the Gypsum CBC (Sandusky Bay)
was postponed to 3 Jan due to dire warmings of inclement
weather. Turns out the weather was just fine Tuesday as the
Shieldcastle's discovered covering the Port Clinton/Darby Marsh
area that day. Yesterday, 8 deg temps with 12 mph winds
had myself, Tom Bartlett, and Paul Sherwood out in
sub-zero wind chills. But the big difference was that mostly open
water in the marshes as well as offshore Tue was 95% frozen
yesterday. The count managed 62 species plus 1 hybrid. I
give the entire list below for those pursuing January lists.
X- count week obs. of 7 species are from the Shieldcastles on Tue.
Where they had 350 Bonaparte's Gulls off Catawba Tue (a good
count for Jan in the Bay area), we had none yesterday. Nor does our
Common Merganser total stand up to the 600 present Tue. Their
2 Fox Sparrows were also locally uncommon. Our woodpecker,
kinglet, creeper, warbler, and wren tallies from yesterday were
noticeably depressed. Cardinal and White-throated Sparrow numbers
were above average. Also in good numbers were Black-capped
Chickadee and American Tree Sparrow. The American Coot was
in a drainage canal of Pickerel Creek W.A. visible from Rt. 6. The
bulk of the Snow Buntings were at Bayview. Castalia duck numbers
were poor but for the Gadwall. I tacked on Sheryl Young's Common
Redpoll ...
Canada Goose 893
Mute Swan 18
Trumpeter Swan 1
Gadwall 88
American Wigeon 49
American Black Duck 76
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 1
Mallard 624
Northern Shoveler 57
Redhead X
Lesser Scaup X
Bufflehead 3
Common Goldeneye 34
Common Merganser 32
Red-breasted Merganser X
Ruddy Duck 9
Double-crested Cormorant X
Great Blue Heron 14
Bald Eagle 20
Northern Harrier 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 3
Red-tailed Hawk 24
Rough-legged Hawk 2
American Kestrel 2
American Coot 1
Bonaparte's Gull X
Ring-billed Gull 6560
Herring Gull 1628
Great Black-backed Gull 48
Rock Pigeon 159
Mourning Dove 34
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Great Horned Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 12
Downy Woodpecker 53
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
Blue Jay 19
American Crow 6
Horned Lark 60
Black-capped Chickadee 62
Tufted Titmouse 17
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 13
Brown Creeper 16
Carolina Wren 16
Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 19
American Robin 235
European Starling 576
Cedar Waxwing 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
American Tree Sparrow 714
Fox Sparrow X
Song Sparrow 16
Swamp Sparrow 10
White-throated Sparrow 195
White-crowned Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 210
Lapland Longspur 28
Snow Bunting 454
Northern Cardinal 281
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Common Grackle 13
Brown-headed Cowbird 691
Purple Finch X
House Finch 53
Common Redpoll 1
American Goldfinch 62
House Sparrow 287
cheers
Vic Fazio
Shaker Heights, OH
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