The Kelleys Island monthly census for December was scheduled for Sunday, December 16 as part of the Lake Erie Islands Christmas Count. However, midway through the morning both were cancelled due to very limited visibility and drifting snow. Jun Campbell, Sandy Tkach, and I had attempted the census even though others had all ready backout. I did forgo the morning owling. But phone calls with compiler, John Pogacnik and Lisa Brohl on South Bass convinced us to cancel. We rescheduled for Monday morning which turned out much better. John will handle the details of the "very limited" Islands Christmas count. We conducted the census from 0800-1300 under overcast to partly cloudy skies, 18-27 F temperature, 5-20 mile per hour SSW winds, and 8+ inches of snow cover. 53 species were observed consisting of 8923 individuals. Two new species were added to the December census. Those were Snow Bunting and Common Redpoll. This is the eleventh year for the December count. 1 Common Loon 2 Horned Grebe 167 Double-crested Cormorant 41 Canada Goose * Tundra Swan 134 Gadwall 103 American Black Duck 599 Mallard * Redhead 11 Greater Scaup 7 Lesser Scaup 1 Surf Scoter 3 Long-tailed Duck 1119 Bufflehead 1181 Common Goldeneye 3 Hooded Merganser 588 Common Merganser 166 Red-breasted Merganser * Bald Eagle (immature) * Red-tailed Hawk * Merlin (photo) 2 American Coot 1305 Bonaparte''s Gull 1230 Ring-billed Gull 1010 Herring Gull 79 Great Black-backed Gull 750 Gull species * Eastern Screech-Owl * Great Horned Owl * Northern Saw-whet Owl 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 13 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 27 American Crow 3 Horned Lark 38 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Red-breasted Nuthatch 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 5 Brown Creeper 1 Carolina Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Hermit Thrush 17 American Robin 34 European Starling 1 American Pipit (photo) 36 Cedar Waxwing 14 Yellow-rumped Warbler 46 Northern Cardinal 26 American Tree Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 33 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 53 Dark-eyed Junco 2 "Oregon" Junco 1 Snow Bunting * Brown-headed Cowbird 30 Blackbird species? 3 Purple Finch * House Finch 1 Common Redpoll 7 American Goldfinch 11 House Sparrow 53 species 8923 individuals 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]