On Friday, I manned the hawk tower from 0820-1500. Winds were out of the NE to N all day but light. Evidently, not light enough as almost no raptors were moving along the lake front. All migrant raptors observed were well south of the tower except for the Merlin which was right to the north of the tower. Below is the list of what was observed from the tower during that time period. In addition, an adult male Yellow-headed Blackbird was observed singing (if you can call what comes out of their mouth a song) in the grasses to the east of the bridge along the causeway around 0800. 17 Canada Goose 2 Trumpeter Swan 18 Wood Duck 123 Gadwall 19 American Wigeon 5 American Black Duck 103 Mallard 9 Blue-winged Teal 11 Northern Shoveler 5 Northern Pintail 29 Green-winged Teal 4 Redhead 2 Lesser Scaup 4 Hooded Merganser 7 Common Merganser 3 Pied-billed Grebe 19 Double-crested Cormorant 8 Great Blue Heron 4 Great Egret 40 Turkey Vulture (all migrants) 5 Bald Eagle (all locals) 3 Red-tailed Hawk (2 migrants) 1 Merlin (one dark migrant) 1 Virginia Rail 1 Sora 13 American Coot 3 Sandhill Crane (2 + 1; all moving east) 14 American Golden Plover 2 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 123 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 Bonaparte's Gull 23 Ring-billed Gull 47 Herring Gull 8 Mourning Dove 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 20 Northern Flicker 2 Eastern Phoebe 3 Blue Jay 13 American Crow 3 Horned Lark 35 Tree Swallow 3 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Carolina Wren 1 Winter Wren 14 Golden-crowned Kinglet 24 American Robin 12 European Starling 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 9 American Tree Sparrow 23 Fox Sparrow 8 Song Sparrow 4 Swamp Sparrow 7 Dark-eyed Junco 8 Snow Bunting 150+ Red-winged Blackbird 35+ Rusty Blackbird 75+ Common Grackle 45+ Brown-headed Cowbird 7 Northern Cardinal 7 House Finch 13 American Goldfinch 8 House 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]