This is almost anti-climatic with all the great birding in northern Ohio
this past weekend.  The 13th May monthly census on Kelleys Island was
conducted on Friday, May 15.  Paula, Bartlett, John Lortz, and myself
attempted to conduct the census but were interrupted.  We started at 0630
but at 9:30 I was called by the banding station that they were over-loaded.
Nets were shut down and Paula drove John out to help.  John soon called and
I stopped the census at 1000 near the KI school.  After an hour and half,
the banders were caught up, net raised again, and we finished the census.
It was a record census.  In fact the record had been broken by 1000.  We
recorded 108 species and 3618 individuals.  The 13 year average is 89
species and 2868 individuals.  Osprey and Prothonotary Warbler were added to
the May species list which stands at 156 species over the last 13 years.  We
had 26 species of warbler on this census.  Two additional warbler species
were observed by others, making 28 species of warbler observed on the island
on this day.  Unfortunately, the Kirtland's Warbler I had schedule for the
island missed and landed on the beach at Magee Marsh...  ;>)


Number        Species
  46 Canada Goose  5 Wood Duck  49 Mallard  * Wild Turkey  1 Common
Loon  78 Double-crested
Cormorant  43 Great Blue Heron  3 Black-crowned Night-Heron  5 Turkey
Vulture  1 Osprey  1 Bald Eagle  1 Sharp-shinned Hawk  3 Cooper's Hawk
 4 Broad-winged
Hawk  3 Red-tailed Hawk  1 Sora  8 Killdeer  * Solitary Sandpiper  2 Spotted
Sandpiper  75 Ring-billed Gull  121 Herring Gull  * Great Black-backed Gull
* Caspian Tern  1 Common Tern  5 Mourning Dove  2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
 19 Chimney
Swift  7 Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1 Red-bellied Woodpecker  22 Downy
Woodpecker  4 Northern Flicker  13 Eastern Wood-Pewee  1 Acadian Flycatcher
1 "Trail's" Flycatcher  35 Least Flycatcher  5 Eastern Phoebe  11 Great
Crested Flycatcher  33 Eastern Kingbird  2 Yellow-throated Vireo  1 Blue-headed
Vireo  22 Warbling Vireo  2 Philadelphia Vireo  30 Red-eyed Vireo  12 Vireo
species?  285 Blue Jay  13 American Crow  81 Purple Martin  114 Tree Swallow
9 Northern Rough-winged Swallow  162 Barn Swallow  32 Black-capped Chickadee
2 Carolina Wren  19 House Wren  3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1 Blue-gray
Gnatcatcher  * Eastern Bluebird  20 Veery  1 Gray-cheeked Thrush  13 Swainson's
Thrush  3 Wood Thrush  186 American Robin  32 Gray Catbird  1 Brown Thrasher
73 European Starling  4 American Pipit  11 Cedar Waxwing  * Golden-winged
Warbler  35 Tennessee Warbler  1 Orange-crowned Warbler  18 Nashville
Warbler  9 Northern Parula  111 Yellow Warbler  38 Chestnut-sided Warbler
50 Magnolia Warbler  8 Cape May Warbler  15 Black-throated Blue
Warbler  8 Yellow-rumped
Warbler  29 Black-throated Green Warbler  22 Blackburnian Warbler  5 Palm
Warbler  14 Bay-breasted Warbler  4 Blackpoll Warbler  5 Cerulean Warbler
19 Black-and-white Warbler  69 American Redstart  1 Prothonotary Warbler  22
Ovenbird  16 Northern Waterthrush  * Kentucky Warbler  7 Mourning
Warbler  7 Common
Yellowthroat  1 Hooded Warbler  2 Wilson's Warbler  3 Canada Warbler
81 Warbler
species?  19 Scarlet Tanager  2 Eastern Towhee  15 Chipping Sparrow  1 Field
Sparrow  7 Savannah Sparrow  1 Song Sparrow  13 Lincoln's Sparrow  2 Swamp
Sparrow  48 White-throated Sparrow  16 White-crowned Sparrow  29 Northern
Cardinal  11 Rose-breasted Grosbeak  29 Indigo Bunting  1 Bobolink
361 Red-winged
Blackbird  492 Common Grackle  33 Brown-headed Cowbird  22 Orchard Oriole
93 Baltimore Oriole  21 House Finch  21 American Goldfinch  37 House Sparrow
* = observed on the island on count day but not during the census

--
H. Thomas Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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