Conducted the monthly census yesterday with Shane and Laura Roberts. Beautiful day with light winds, cool in the early AM but warmed up. Total of 60 species observed on the route which is our second highest species total in 10 years. An addition 4 species were observed during the day but not on the census route. Highlights were a White-eyed Vireo and dark Merlin which appears to have setup winter territory. 149 Common Loon 1 Pied-billed Grebe 191 Horned Grebe 363 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 87 Canada Goose 8 Tundra Swan 2 Gadwall 9 American Black Duck 133 Mallard 13 Lesser Scaup 1 Surf Scoter 1997 Bufflehead 57 Common Goldeneye 19112 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Ruddy Duck 2 Bald Eagle 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Merlin 4 Bonaparte's Gull 57 Ring-billed Gull 139 Herring Gull 6 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Mourning Dove 1 Eastern Screech-Owl * Great Horned Owl * Northern Saw-whet Owl * Belted Kingfisher 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 17 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 23 Northern Flicker 1 White-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 44 American Crow 3 Horned Lark 46 Black-capped Chickadee 17 Brown Creeper 18 Carolina Wren 4 Winter Wren 48 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet * Eastern Bluebird 7 Hermit Thrush 707 American Robin 623 European Starling 25 Cedar Waxwing 17 Yellow-rumped Warbler 41 Northern Cardinal 11 American Tree Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 61 White-throated Sparrow 8 Dark-eyed Junco 3 Lapland Longspur 2 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Common Grackle 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 48 House Finch 23 American Goldfinch 78 House Sparrow 60 species plus 4 observed not on route 24238 individuals observed (Highest November total individuals in 10 years) * = not observed during census route Also observed on the island over the last 4 days were: Green-winged Teal 11/17 2 additional Surf Scoters on 11/17 Hooded Merganser 11/17 Common Merganser 11/17 Turkey Vulture 11/17 Northern Harrier 11/17 Tom Bartlett Tiffin, Ohio [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]