I am using the Winter Bird Atlas technique for numbers. If someone wants more details, let me know. It was a little colder than it has been and numbers of waterfowl seems down some. Passerines were also down some. I am planning the monthly census on January 20. The Northern Mockingbird was present every day in a multiflora rose field row behind the Quarry Condos. This is only the third time I have seen one on the island and a winter first. 1 Turkey Vulture XXX Canada Goose XXX Gadwall 5 American Wigeon XX American Black Duck XXX Mallard 1 Greater Scaup 2 Long-tailed Duck XXXX Bufflehead XXXX Common Goldeneye XX Common Merganser XXXX Red-breasted Merganser 2 Bald Eagle (1 adult, 1 second year bird) 2 Cooper's Hawk XX Ring-billed Gull XXX Herring Gull 3 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Mourning Dove X Eastern Screech-Owl X Great Horned Owl X Red-bellied Woodpecker X Downy Woodpecker X Northern Flicker X Blue Jay XX American Crow X Horned Lark XX Black-capped Chcikadee X Brown Creeper XX Carolina Wren X Winter Wren XX Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet X Hermit Thrush XX American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird XX European Starling X Yellow-rumped Warbler XX White-throated Sparrow XX Dark-eyed Junco X Snow Bunting XX Northern Cardinal XX House Finch X American Goldfinch XX House Sparrow 44 species observed 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. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. 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]