The Lake Erie Islands Christmas Bird Count was held this past Sunday,
December 20.  This was the first year in a while that it was an
international count with counters on Pelee Island.  Kelleys, South Bass and
Middle Bass Islands were covered.  A total of 82 species were seen during
the count.  Birds of note were all 1 white-winged, 1 surf, and 5 black
scoters, 5 long-tailed ducks, 7 killdeer, 1 dunlin, 1 purple sandpiper, 1
lesser black-backed gull, a count week long-eared owl, 5 northern saw-whet
owls, and 29 hermit thrushes.  The purple sandpiper was on South Bass
Island.  The owls  were all on Kelleys Island.  Also of interest were counts
of 3217 bufflehead and 3255 common goldeneye.


      Species
      Canada Goose 421
      Tundra Swan 302
      Gadwall 93
      American Wigeon 2
      American Black Duck 316
      Mallard 1895
      Northern Shoveler 1
      Northern Pintail 5
      Canvasback 77
      Redhead 16
      Ring-necked Duck 1
      Greater Scaup 180
      Lesser Scaup 839
      Scaup spp. 1571
      White-winged Scoter 1
      Surf Scoter 1
      Black Scoter 5
      Long-tailed Duck 5
      Bufflehead 3217
      Common Goldeneye 3255
      Hooded Merganser 9
      Common Merganser 859
      Red-breasted Merganser 7092
      Merganser spp. 982
      Ruddy Duck 1
      Divers spp. 726
      Ring-necked Pheasant 6
      Wild Turkey 150
      Common Loon 1
      Horned Grebe 3
      Double-crested Cormorant 5
      Great Blue Heron 2
      Bald Eagle 7
      Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
      Cooper's Hawk 3
      Red-tailed Hawk 4
      American Coot 1
      Killdeer 7
      Dunlin 1
      Purple Sandpiper 1
      Bonaparte's Gull 1617
      Ring-billed Gull 1972
      Herring Gull 2241
      Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
      Great Black-backed Gull 92
      Gull spp. 483
      Mourning Dove 12
      Eastern Screech-Owl 13
      Great Horned Owl 10
      Long-eared Owl CW
      Northern Saw-whet Owl 5
      Belted Kingfisher 4
      Red-bellied Woodpecker 34
      Downy Woodpecker 105
      Northern Flicker 11
      Blue Jay 57
      American Crow 97
      Horned Lark 12
      Black-capped Chickadee 438
      Red-breasted Nuthatch 5
      White-breasted Nuthatch 27
      Brown Creeper 22
      Carolina Wren 14
      Winter Wren 4
      Golden-crowned Kinglet   14
      Kinglet spp. 1
      Eastern Bluebird 6
      Hermit Thrush 29
      American Robin 385
      Northern Mockingbird 1
      European Starling 5884
      Cedar Waxwing 6
      Yellow-rumped Warbler 26
      American Tree Sparrow 17
      Song Sparrow 4
      Swamp Sparrow 3
      White-throated Sparrow 40
      White-crowned Sparrow 5
      Sparrow spp. 78
      Dark-eyed Junco 50
      Lapland Longspur 1
      Northern Cardinal 203
      Red-winged Blackbird 41
      Common Grackle 8
      Brown-headed Cowbird 50
      Purple Finch 2
      House Finch 124
      American Goldfinch 56
      House Sparrow 629

     37005

      82 sp


John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
(440) 259-2751

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