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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