Conducted the 13th September monthly census on Kelleys Island today. Beautiful day with "tons" of birds which were moving way too fast and disappearing into the foliage. Assistaed by Paula Bartlett and June Campbell. We observed 73 species along the census route which is the average for the past 13 years in September and 24662 individuals is one of the highest counts of any month's census. Highlights included the first Red-breasted Mergansers and Dark-eyed Juncoes for the September census. 22029 Double-crested Cormorants was a record as was 18 Red-breasted Nuthatches. Surprisingly we had no White-breasted Nuthatches or swallows. 16 species of warblers were observed as well as 112 individual warblers unidentified. 131 Canada Goose 117 Mallard 2 Red-breasted Merganser 22029 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Great Blue Heron 9 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 5 Bald Eagle 1 Cooper's hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 5 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 41 Bonaparte's Gull 1125 Ring-billed Gull 147 Herring Gull 7 Caspian Tern 4 Mourning Dove 1 Eastern Screech-Owl 3 Chimney Swift 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Belted Kingfisher 28 Downy Woodpecker 15 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Least Flycatcher 4 Eastern Phoebe 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Warbling Vireo 9 Red-eyed Vireo 26 Blue Jay 82 American Crow 72 Black-capped Chickadee 18 Red-breasted Nuthatch 7 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 Veery 9 Gray-cheeked Thrush 57 Swainson's Thrush 26 Thrush species? 74 American Robin 8 Gray Catbird 1 Brown Thrasher 33 European Starling 29 Cedar waxwing 2 Tennessee Warbler 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 14 Magnolia Warbler 2 Cape May Warbler 22 Yellow-rumped warbler 5 Black-throated Green Warbler 2 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Bay-breasted warbler 25 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 3 American Redstart 1 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 1 Common Yellowthroat 112 Warbler species? 21 Chipping Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 66 Northern Cardinal 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3 Indigo Bunting 8 Red-winged Blackbird 69 Common Grackle 5 Brown-headed Cowbird 27 House Finch 28 American Goldfinch 75 House Sparrow 73 species 24662 individuals -- 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]