On Friday, I manned the hawk tower from 0820-1500.  Winds were out of the NE
to N all day but light.  Evidently, not light enough as almost no raptors
were moving along the lake front.  All migrant raptors observed were well
south of the tower except for the Merlin which was right to the north of the
tower.  Below is the list of what was observed from the tower during that
time period.  

In addition, an adult male Yellow-headed Blackbird was observed singing (if
you can call what comes out of their mouth a song) in the grasses to the
east of the bridge along the causeway around 0800.

17      Canada Goose
2       Trumpeter Swan
18      Wood Duck
123     Gadwall
19      American Wigeon
5       American Black Duck
103     Mallard
9       Blue-winged Teal
11      Northern Shoveler
5       Northern Pintail
29      Green-winged Teal
4       Redhead
2       Lesser Scaup
4       Hooded Merganser
7       Common Merganser
3       Pied-billed Grebe
19      Double-crested Cormorant
8       Great Blue Heron
4       Great Egret
40      Turkey Vulture (all migrants)
5       Bald Eagle (all locals)
3       Red-tailed Hawk (2 migrants)
1       Merlin (one dark migrant)
1       Virginia Rail
1       Sora
13      American Coot
3       Sandhill Crane (2 + 1; all moving east)
14      American Golden Plover
2       Greater Yellowlegs
1       Lesser Yellowlegs
123     Pectoral Sandpiper
2       Bonaparte's Gull
23      Ring-billed Gull
47      Herring Gull
8       Mourning Dove
2       Belted Kingfisher
1       Red-bellied Woodpecker
1       Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
4       Downy Woodpecker
1       Hairy Woodpecker
20      Northern Flicker
2       Eastern Phoebe
3       Blue Jay
13      American Crow
3       Horned Lark
35      Tree Swallow
3       Black-capped Chickadee
2       Carolina Wren
1       Winter Wren
14      Golden-crowned Kinglet
24      American Robin
12      European Starling
3       Yellow-rumped Warbler
1       Eastern Towhee
9       American Tree Sparrow
23      Fox Sparrow
8       Song Sparrow
4       Swamp Sparrow
7       Dark-eyed Junco
8       Snow Bunting
150+    Red-winged Blackbird
35+     Rusty Blackbird
75+     Common Grackle
45+     Brown-headed Cowbird
7       Northern Cardinal
7       House Finch
13      American Goldfinch
8       House Sparrow


Tom Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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