Pat Hayes and I conducted the monthly census on Saturday under cool
but normal fall conditions.  Had we done it on Friday we would have
added several more species.  For the day we had 51 species and 4384
individuals.  The 51 species is the lowest October count in 12 years.
The 12 year average is 57.5 species.  No new species were added to the
October census list which is 116 species.  Four species species were
observed for only the second time in 12 years of an October census.
Those were Green-winged Teal, Blackpoll Warbler, Lincoln's Sparrow,
and Rose-breasted Grosbeak.  Unusual for the count were numbers of
kinglets, they were everywhere.  At times they were under foot and
didn't want to move.  High numbers of Brown Creepers and Winter Wren
were of note.

158     Canada Goose
*          Wood Duck
*          American Black Duck
97       Mallard
4         Green-winged Teal
*          Lesser Scaup
*          Wild Turkey
131     Double-crested Cormorant
3          Great Blue Heron
6          Turkey Vulture
1          Bald Eagle
*          Cooper's Hawk
2         Killdeer
245    Bonaparte's Gull
643    Ring-billed Gull
251    Herring Gull
200    Gull species
*         Mourning Dove
1         Eastern Screech-Owl
3         Red-bellied Woodpecker
1         Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
16       Downy Woodpecker
9         Northern Flicker
1         Eastern Phoebe
5         Blue Jay
31       American Crow
53       Black-capped Chickadee
1         Red-breasted Nuthatch
3         White-breasted Nuthatch
29       Brown Creeper
5         Carolina Wren
1         House Wren
17       Winter Wren
449     Golden-crowned Kinglet
157     Ruby-crowned Kinglet
100     Kinglet species
37       Hermit Thrush
394     American Robin
1          Gray Catbird
1          Brown Thrasher
129      European Starling
13        Ceder Waxwing
144      Yellow-rumped Warbler
2           Blackpoll Warbler
14         Chipping Sparrow
7           Song Sparrow
2           Lincoln's Sparrow
1           Swamp Sparrow
203       White-throated Sparrow
79         White-crowned Sparrow
245       Dark-eyed Junco
125       Sparrow species
46         Northern Cardinal
1            Rose-breasted Grosbeak
38          Red-winged Blackbird
14          Rusty Blackbird
123        Common Grackle
12          House Finch
66          American Goldfinch
64          House Sparrow

51 Species
4384 individuals observed
--
H. Thomas Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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