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Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:41:08 -0500
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Spent the last three days on the island.  Below is a list of species
observed.  The mild weather is still showing in species and species numbers.
The Turkey Vulture observed Friday was clearly a young bird with dark bill
and head.  Hopefully it lives long enough to mature, the cold has to come
sometime.  Strangely, I could find no Double-crested Cormorants.  The
European Starling numbers have grown to 110,000.  I found their island roost
in the NW corner of the island.  So this group didn't leave the island as
has been observed at other times.  Also, the "puddle duck" numbers decline
greatly by Friday.  It seems they left on Thursday night.  The Red-throated
Loon has a somewhat different plumage.  I got several good photos at close
range.  This was not a census time so I just birded, hiked, etc.  Species
numbers are ball-park numbers not actual counts in most cases.  54 species
observed.

1       Red-throated Loon (12/28)
6+      Common Loon
6+      Horned Grebe
1       Turkey Vulture (12/29)
300+    Canada Goose
100+    Gadwall
4       American Wigeon
250+    American Black Duck
500+    Mallard
1       Black Scoter - 1 male on 12/28
1000+   Bufflehead
1000+   Common Goldeneye
10+     Common Merganser
1500+   Red-breasted Merganser
2       Bald Eagle (both adults)
1       Cooper's Hawk
3       Red-tailed Hawk
20+     Bonaparte's Gull
30+     Ring-billed Gull
500+    Herring Gull
3       Great Black-backed Gull
1       Mourning Dove
4       Eastern Screech-Owl
5+      Great Horned Owl
2+      Long-eared Owl
7+      Northern Saw-whet Owl
4       Red-bellied Woodpecker
2       Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
12+     Downy Woodpecker
6+      Northern Flicker
3       Blue Jay
40+     American Crow
6+      Horned Lark
50+     Black-capped Chickadee
2       White-breasted Nuthatch
4       Brown Creeper
8       Carolina Wren
2       Winter Wren
20+     Golden-crowned Kinglet
12+     Eastern Bluebird
20+     Hermit Thrush
300+    American Robin
110000  European Starling
6+      Cedar Waxwing
20+     Yellow-rumped Warbler
2       Eastern Towhee
2       Song Sparrow
40+     White-throated Sparrow
12+     Dark-eyed Junco
2       Snow Bunting
20+     Northern Cardinal
12+     House Finch
4+      American Goldfinch
20+     House Sparrow

Tom Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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