Conducted the monthly census Saturday. Participants were Tom & Paula Bartlett, June Campbell, Brian & Tyler McClain, and Sandy Tkach. Weather was beautiful with winds out of the SE 5-10 mph. However, species number were down somewhat from previous days as it appears many birds, especially waterfowl, left overnight. We managed to log 63 species and 4241 individuals along the route. This is the 10th year for the April count. 72 Double-crested Cormorant 26 Great Blue Heron 70 Canada Goose 2 Wood Duck 72 Mallard 2 Green-winged Teal 1 Ring-necked Duck 38 Lesser Scaup 555 Bufflehead 24 American Goldeneye 2 Hooded Merganser 197 Red-breasted Merganser 11 Turkey Vulture * Osprey * Bald Eagle * Northern Harrier * Sharp-shinned Hawk 6 Cooper's Hawk 1 American Kestrel 2 American Coot 9 Killdeer 3 Greater Yellowlegs 359 Bonaparte's Gull 53 Herring Gull 2 Forster's Tern 9 Mourning Dove 1 Great Horned Owl 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Yellow-belied Sapsucker 11 Downy Woodpecker 15 Yellow-shafted Flicker 1 Blue-headed Vireo * Blue Jay 8 American Crow 3 Purple Martin 208 Tree Swallow 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 31 Barn Swallow 26 Black-capped Chickadee 23 Brown Creeper 3 Carolina Wren 6 Winter Wren 27 Golden-crowned Kinglet 15 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 41 Hermit Thrush 381 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 96 European Starling 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 32 Northern Cardinal 1 Eastern Towhee 34 Chipping Sparrow 6 Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 10 Song Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 28 Dark-eyed Junco 818 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Eastern Meadowlark 8 Rusty Blackbird 651 Common Grackle 46 Brown-headed Cowbird 116 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 53 House Sparrow Noteworthy missing species which are usually observed on the April census: Common Loon, Blue-winged Teal, Greater Scaup, Ring-billed Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Caspian Tern, Belted Kingfisher, Eastern Phoebe, and Swamp Sparrow. 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]