Sandy Tkach, June Campbell, and I conducted the April monthly census today.
Weather was beautiful.  Temp started about 36 and got to about 50, clear
skies, winds out of the W-NW 10-20 mph.  We observed 77 species on the
census route and an additional 4 after the route.  The 77 species is the
best in 14 years of the April census.  In addition, we observed 10,113
individual which is also our top showing.  The 14 year average is 67 species
and 4825 individuals.  Nothing really unusual was observed but Northern
Harrier and Marsh Wren were firsts for the April count.

1        Common Loon
2        Horned Grebe
429    Double-crested Cormorant
13      Great Blue Heron
11      Turkey Vulture
33      Canada Goose
7        Wood Duck
53      Mallard
2        Blue-winged Teal
6        Redhead
25      Greater Scaup
63      Lesser Scaup
35      Common Goldeneye
393    Bufflehead
4        Hooded Merganser
11      Common Merganser
2943  Red-breasted Merganser
2        Bald Eagle
5        Northern Harrier
7        Sharp-shinned hawk
2        Cooper's Hawk
2        Red-tailed Hawk
4        American Kestrel
2        Merlin
1        Sora
1        American Coot
3        Killdeer
2525  Bonaparte's Gull
34      Ring-billed Gull
42      Herring Gull
1        Great Black-backed Gull
2        Caspian Tern
*         Common Tern
1        Forster's Tern
4        Mourning Dove
1        Eastern Screech-Owl
5        Belted Kingfisher
3        Red-bellied Woodpecker
2        Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
15      Downy Woodpecker
23      Northern Flicker
2        Eastern Phoebe
1        Blue Jay
19      American Crow
1        Horned Lark
16      Purple Martin
644    Tree Swallow
23      Northern Rough-winged Swallow
*         Bank Swallow
305    Barn Swallow
650+  Swallow species
45      Black-capped Chickadee
*         Red-breasted Nuthatch
8        Brown Creeper
2        Carolina Wren
3        Winter Wren
1        Marsh Wren
6        Golden-crowned Kinglet
7        Ruby-crowned Kinglet
4        Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2        Eastern Bluebird
3        Hermit Thrush
221    American Robin
1        Brown Thrasher
55      European Starling
8        Cedar Waxwing
48      Yellow-rumped Warbler
48      Northern Cardinal
1        Eastern Towhee
64      Chipping Sparrow
2        Field Sparrow
2        Fox Sparrow
3        Song Sparrow
98      White-throated Sparrow
96      Dark-eyed Junco
462    Red-winged Blackbird
2        Rusty Blackbird
368    Common Grackle
52      Brown-headed Cowbird
72      House Finch
*         American Goldfinch
50      House Sparrow

77 species
10,113 individuals

Tom
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H. Thomas Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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