The monthly census for Kelleys Island was conduct Monday, October 22. Participants included Tom Bartlett, Dave Dariano, Pat Hayes, and Sandy Tkach. Weather was clear to partly cloudy, winds S-SE 5-12 mph, and temperature from 58 to low 70's. This census completes ten years of monthly census on Kelleys Island. The census began with the November census run in 1997. Only the months of January and February of 2000 were missed due the inability to get to the island because of weather. The October census recorded 56 species and 4136 individuals. Both of these numbers are below average for the ten years. The October average number of species observed is 58 and total number of individuals is 5271. Several days of southerly winds before this count probably helped to reduce the number of species and individuals. Three species were added to the list of species observed on an October census. Those were Mute Swan, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and Lincoln's Sparrow. The ten year list for October sightings is 113 species. Noticeably absent was Great Black-backed Gull which has been missed the last two October counts. 123 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 268 Canada Goose 1 Mute Swan 56 Mallard 4 Turkey Vulture 2 Bald Eagle (2 adults) 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Merlin 2 Black-bellied Plover 8 Killdeer 163 Bonaparte's Gull 1520 Ring-billed Gull 624 Herring Gull 2 Mourning Dove 1 Belted Kingfisher 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 12 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue Jay 45 American Crow 46 Black-capped Chickadee 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch 7 White-breasted Nuthatch 5 Brown Creeper 4 Carolina Wren 4 Winter Wren 14 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4 Hermit Thrush 642 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 37 European Starling 8 Cedar Waxwing 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Magnolia Warbler 184 Yellow-rumped Warbler 61 Northern Cardinal 1 Indigo Bunting 2 Chipping Sparrow 3 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 4 Lincoln's Sparrow 14 Swamp Sparrow 101 White-throated Sparrow 3 White-crowned Sparrow 7 Dark-eyed Junco 61 Red-winged Blackbird 6 Common Grackle 2 Purple Finch 25 House Finch 10 American Goldfinch 25 House Sparrow 56 Total species 4036 Total Individuals November count will be on Saturday, November 17 December count will be on Sunday, December 16 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]