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The Lake Erie Islands Christmas Bird Count was held Sunday, December 16.
There was some coverage on all of the islands for the first time in a few
years. We ended up with 82 species. The most interesting thing however
were some of the rare species and high numbers. Rare birds seen were
harlequin duck, golden eagle, Virginia rail, purple sandpiper (3), Northern
saw-whet owl (9!), Cape May warbler, and white-winged crossbill (11). High
numbers were as follows: yellow-bellied sapsucker 4, northern flicker 102,
golden-crowned kinglet 45, ruby-crowned kinglet 2, hermit thrush 112,
yellow-rumped warbler 560, and fox sparrow 4. Below is a list of what we
ended up with. I know for me I cannot remember a count where I saw as many
individual birds each stop. Hermit thrushes were responding to owl tapes
before dawn. At one stop I had 7 at one time. Yellow-rumped warblers were
also amazing with over 500 counted.
Total
Canada Goose
180
Tundra Swan
13
Gadwall
40
American Wigeon
5
American Black Duck
17
Mallard
688
Northern Pintail
1
Redhead
5
Ring-necked Duck
1
Greater Scaup
4
Lesser Scaup
41
Harlequin Duck
1
Bufflehead
1518
Common Goldeneye
101
Hooded Merganser
7
Common Merganser
47
Red-breasted Merganser
810
Merganser spp.
2
Common Loon
8
Pied-billed Grebe
1
Horned Grebe
16
Double-crested Cormorant
27
Great Blue Heron
2
Bald Eagle
6
Golden Eagle
1
Sharp-shinned Hawk
3
Cooper's Hawk
16
Red-tailed Hawk
9
Hawk spp.
2
Wild Turkey
1
Ring-necked Pheasant
2
Virginia Rail
1
Killdeer
2
Purple Sandpiper
3
Bonaparte's Gull
77
Ring-billed Gull
109
Herring Gull
693
Thayer's Gull
CW
Great Black-backed Gull
19
Gull species
55
Mourning Dove
20
Eastern Screech-Owl
17
Great Horned Owl
14
Northern Saw-whet Owl
9
Belted Kingfisher
1
Red-bellied Woodpecker
62
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
4
Downy Woodpecker
188
Hairy Woodpecker
1
Northern Flicker
102
Blue Jay
41
American Crow
94
Black-capped Chickadee
577
Red-breasted Nuthatch
27
White-breasted Nuthatch
26
Brown Creeper
38
Carolina Wren
45
Winter Wren
7
Golden-crowned Kinglet
45
Ruby Kinglet
2
Kinglet spp.
1
Eastern Bluebird
37
Hermit Thrush
112
American Robin
1210
Northern Mockingbird
1
European Starling
19058
Cedar Waxwing
80
Waxwing spp.
3
Cape May warbler
1
Yellow-rumped Warbler
560
Eastern Towhee
1
American Tree Sparrow
57
Fox Sparrow
4
Song Sparrow
6
Swamp Sparrow
1
White-throated Sparrow
163
Slate-colored Junco
107
Snow Bunting
3
Northern Cardinal
264
Red-winged Blackbird
25
Rusty Blackbird
4
Common Grackle
18
Brown-headed Cowbird
5
Purple Finch
65
House Finch
207
White-winged Crossbill
11
Common Redpoll
103
American Goldfinch
146
House Sparrow
416
28253
82 spp
John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
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