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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