Paula Bartlett and I conducted the monthly census on Kelleys Island today. This is the 13th April census. 62 species and 3685 individuals were observed. Both numbers are below the 13 year average for April which is 67 species and 4418 individuals. A pair of Northern Shovelers were new for the April census. All four monthly census this year have been below average in number of species and number of individuals. 2 Common Loon 1 Horned Grebe 291 Double-crested Cormorant 13 Great Blue Heron 44 Canada Goose 2 Wood Duck 40 Mallard 2 Northern Shoveler 6 Lesser Scaup 68 Bufflehead 196 Red-breasted Merganser 10 Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Merlin * Wild Turkey 3 Killdeer * American Woodcock 174 Bonaparte's Gull 5 Ring-billed Gull 56 Herring Gull 1 Caspian Tern 5 Mourning Dove 3 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 23 Downy Woodpecker 15 Northern Flicker 4 Eastern Phoebe 6 Blue Jay 27 American Crow 371 Tree Swallow 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 Bank Swallow 21 Barn Swallow 88 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Brown Creeper 3 Carolina Wren 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Eastern Bluebird 2 Hermit Thrush 285 American Robin 1 Brown Thrasher 161 European Starling 16 Yellow-rumped Warbler 49 Northern Cardinal 2 Eastern Towhee * American Tree Sparrow 15 Chipping Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 16 White-throated Sparrow 7 Dark-eyed Junco 718 Red-winged Blackbird 16 Rusty Blackbird 672 Common Grackle 65 Brown-headed Cowbird 57 House Finch 13 American Goldfinch 62 House Sparrow 62 Species 3685 individuals Friday, May 14, 2010 is the date of the next census. -- H. Thomas 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]