Normally scheduled 1 Jan, the Gypsum CBC (Sandusky Bay) was postponed to 3 Jan due to dire warmings of inclement weather. Turns out the weather was just fine Tuesday as the Shieldcastle's discovered covering the Port Clinton/Darby Marsh area that day. Yesterday, 8 deg temps with 12 mph winds had myself, Tom Bartlett, and Paul Sherwood out in sub-zero wind chills. But the big difference was that mostly open water in the marshes as well as offshore Tue was 95% frozen yesterday. The count managed 62 species plus 1 hybrid. I give the entire list below for those pursuing January lists. X- count week obs. of 7 species are from the Shieldcastles on Tue. Where they had 350 Bonaparte's Gulls off Catawba Tue (a good count for Jan in the Bay area), we had none yesterday. Nor does our Common Merganser total stand up to the 600 present Tue. Their 2 Fox Sparrows were also locally uncommon. Our woodpecker, kinglet, creeper, warbler, and wren tallies from yesterday were noticeably depressed. Cardinal and White-throated Sparrow numbers were above average. Also in good numbers were Black-capped Chickadee and American Tree Sparrow. The American Coot was in a drainage canal of Pickerel Creek W.A. visible from Rt. 6. The bulk of the Snow Buntings were at Bayview. Castalia duck numbers were poor but for the Gadwall. I tacked on Sheryl Young's Common Redpoll ... Canada Goose 893 Mute Swan 18 Trumpeter Swan 1 Gadwall 88 American Wigeon 49 American Black Duck 76 American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 1 Mallard 624 Northern Shoveler 57 Redhead X Lesser Scaup X Bufflehead 3 Common Goldeneye 34 Common Merganser 32 Red-breasted Merganser X Ruddy Duck 9 Double-crested Cormorant X Great Blue Heron 14 Bald Eagle 20 Northern Harrier 4 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 3 Red-tailed Hawk 24 Rough-legged Hawk 2 American Kestrel 2 American Coot 1 Bonaparte's Gull X Ring-billed Gull 6560 Herring Gull 1628 Great Black-backed Gull 48 Rock Pigeon 159 Mourning Dove 34 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Great Horned Owl 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 12 Downy Woodpecker 53 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 3 Blue Jay 19 American Crow 6 Horned Lark 60 Black-capped Chickadee 62 Tufted Titmouse 17 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 13 Brown Creeper 16 Carolina Wren 16 Winter Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 19 American Robin 235 European Starling 576 Cedar Waxwing 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 American Tree Sparrow 714 Fox Sparrow X Song Sparrow 16 Swamp Sparrow 10 White-throated Sparrow 195 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 210 Lapland Longspur 28 Snow Bunting 454 Northern Cardinal 281 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Common Grackle 13 Brown-headed Cowbird 691 Purple Finch X House Finch 53 Common Redpoll 1 American Goldfinch 62 House Sparrow 287 cheers Vic Fazio Shaker Heights, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]