Here, within, is an unofficial list of the birds seen on this month's Ottawa NWR census. Official numbers are yet to be completed. TIME: 8am-12pm LUNCH: 12pm-1:15pm BACKSIDE DIKE: 1:15pm-4:40pm TEMP.: 67-88+ COND.: Warm, early and warming throughout - hot & buggy - more like August than October; unseasonably warm (hot). OBS. Al & Betty, (forgive my lack of social skills), Nancy Anderson, Mike Edginton, Marc Nolls, Jim Reyda, Bert Szabo,Jack & Janet Volker, Douglas W. Vogus: (and I apologize to those I missed or did not know) BIRDS: 97 SPECIES (give-or-take what I/we missed). 1. Canada Goose 2. Trumpeter Swan - 28 3. Wood Duck - 45+ 4. Gadwall - 200+ 5. American Wigeon - 3000+ 6. American Black Duck - 15+ 7. Mallard - 400+ 8. Blue-winged Teal - 80+ 9. Northern Shoveler - 20+ 10. Northern Pintail - 1 11. Green-winged Teal - 2570+ 12. Canvasback - 2 (1m,1f) 13. Ring-necked Duck - 2 14. Ruddy Duck - 4 15. Pied-billed Grebe - 15+ 16. Double-crested Cormorant - 70+ 17. Great Blue Heron 18. Great Egret 19. Snowy Egret - 7 20. Black-crowned Night Heron - 10 21. Bald Eagle - 4 (adult) 22. Northern Harrier - 5 23. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. f) 24. Red-tailed Hawk - 7 25. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (imm.) 26. Common Moorhen - 4 27. American Coot - 800+ (1 leucistic bird) 28. Black-bellied Plover - 26 29. Semipalmated Plover - 3 30. Killdeer - 120+ 31. American Avocet - 1 32. Greater Yellowlegs - 8 33. Lesser Yellowlegs - 40+ 34. Solitary Sandpiper - 2 35. Spotted Sandpiper - 3 36. Red Knot - 3 37. Least Sandpiper - 4 38. Pectoral Sandpiper - 30+ 39. Dunlin - 475 40. Short-billed Dowitcher - 15+ 41. Wilson's Snipe - 40- 42. Bonaparte's Gull - 250+ 43. Ring-billed Gull 44. Herring Gull - 17 45. Unid. Tern (Common/Forster's) - 5,000+ (a wave of white in very bad light) 46. Mourning Dove - 29 47. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 48. Chimney Swift - 1 49. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1f,1*) 50. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (juv.) 51. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1f) 52. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 53. Downy Woodpecker - 8 54. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (f) 55. Northern Flicker - 12 56. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 57. Philadelphia Vireo - 1 58. Blue Jay - (no major flights) 59. Horned Lark - 7 60. Tree Swallow - 20- 61. Unidentified Swallow - 1 (very brown - no immature Tree) 62. Tufted Titmouse - 1 63. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (*) 64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (1?,1*) 65. Brown Creeper - 3+ 66. Carolina Wren - 1 67. House Wren - 2 68. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7 69. Ruby-crowned Kinget - 3 70. Veery - 1 71. Swainson's Thrush - 1 72. Hermit Thrush - 1 73. American Robin - >35 74. Gray Catbird - 3 75. Brown Thrasher - 1 76. European Starling - 3,600+ (easily 96-percent juv. birds - west to east - non-stop flights) 77. Cedar Waxwing - 20-ish 78. Orange-crowned Warbler 79. Nashville Warbler 80. Chestnut-sided Warbler 81. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 30-ish 82. Blackpoll Warbler - 20-ish 83. Common Yellowthroat - >5 84. Song Sparrow 85. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 86. Swamp Sparrow - >10 87. White-throated Sparrow 88. White-crowned Sparrow 89. Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (1 rather pink-sided female) 90. Northern Cardinal - >10 91. Red-winged Blackbird - 800< 92. Rusty Blackbird - 20< 93. Common Grackle - 200< 94. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 95. House Finch - 1 (*) 96. American Goldfinch - 30> 97. House Sparrow - 6 I apologize to those left out (birds included) that I failed to mention, this is just a general list of birds seen within our fractured group of observers, (and I thank you all). Basically, just letting you know what was seen on this given date, at this given place. Migration - without a doubt - the eighth wonder of my world! Thank You, D.W. Vogus - (see you in the field) --------------------------------- Catch up on fall's hot new shows on Yahoo! TV. Watch previews, get listings, and more! ______________________________________________________________________ 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]