Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Phil Corathers, Sandy Tkach, and myself conducted the monthly census yesterday because weather reports stated a major freeze coming and we won't sure we could get to the island or back this weekend. The day was beautiful, partly cloudy, S wind at 5-12 mph, and temperatures from mid-teens to low 30's Time: 0800 - 1300 EST 23 Canada Goose 33 Gadwall 1 American Wigeon 73 American Black Duck 361 Mallard 4 American Black Duck X Mallard 1 Green-winged Teal 2 Ring-necked Duck 350 Lesser Scaup 354 Bufflehead 1014 Common Goldeneye * Long-tailed Duck 5 Hooded Merganser 5 Common Merganser 39 Red-breasted Merganser 35 unidentified dabblers 400 unidentified divers 2 Bald Eagle (1 adult, 1 immature) 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 Red-tailed Hawk 66 Bonaparte's Gull 2324 Ring-billed Gull 580 Herring Gull 9 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Eastern Screech-Owl 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 17 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 3 Blue Jay 27 American Crow 2 Horned Lark 60 Black-capped Chickadee 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 4 Carolina Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 7 Eastern Bluebird 8 Hermit Thrush 7 American Robin 522 European Starling 12 Cedar Waxwing 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 19 Northern Cardinal 11 American Tree Sparrow 23 White-throated Sparrow 22 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Red-winged Blackbird 11 American Goldfinch 43 House Sparrow 45 Total species 6501 Total individual's * - observed on island but not on census route 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]