Pat Hayes, Paula Bartlett, and I conducted the October monthly census yesterday. This is 13th year for this census. It was a beautiful day, both for weather and birds. We observed 62 species and 3029 individuals. The number of species is above the 13 year average of 58 but the total individuals is well below the the 13 year average of 5656. No new species for October were observed and nothing really uncommon was observed. Kelleys Island Saw-whet Owl banding began on October 16. Three individuals were captured, banded, processed, and released. 438 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 167 Canada Goose 2 Gadwall 117 Mallard 2 American Green-winged Teal 8 Turkey Vulture 2 Bald Eagle 5 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Merlin 2 Killdeer 7 Bonaparte's Gull 526 Ring-billed Gull 108 Herring Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Mourning Dove * Eastern Screech-Owl * Northern Saw-whet Owl 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 26 Downy Woodpecker 9 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue-headed Vireo 5 Blue Jay 75 American Crow 2 Horned Lark 82 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Red-breasted Nuthatch 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Brown Creeper 7 Carolina Wren 9 Winter Wren 97 Golden-crowned Kinglet 41 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher * Eastern Bluebird 8 Hermit Thrush 411 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 64 European Starling 2 American Pipit 46 Cedar Waxwing 2 Orange-crowned Warbler 171 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 4 Eastern Towhee 27 Chipping Sparrow 2 Fox Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 4 Swamp Sparrow 142 White-throated Sparrow 21 White-crowned Sparrow 48 Dark-eyed Junco 32 Northern Cardinal 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 82 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Rusty Blackbird 84 Common Grackle 19 Brown-headed Cowbird 11 Purple Finch 37 House Finch 9 American Goldfinch 36 House Sparrow 62 Total species 3029 Total individuals * = species observed on the island on census day but not on census route -- 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]