Vic Fazio and I conducted the 14th Kelleys Island January monthly census today. Only the January 2000 and February 2000 census have been missed since the beginning of monthly census routes on Kelleys. The day started clear, light ESE winds, 32 F and ended overcast, ENE winds of 5-10 mph, 44 F. 48 species were observed of 6726 individuals. One new species was added to the January census list and that was a Rusty Blackbird. Several regular January birds were missed including Blue Jay and American Tree Sparrow. The average number of species observed on a January census is 41 with 6189 individuals. So today was slightly above average. 93 Canada Goose 15 Gadwall 43 American Black Duck 185 Mallard 6 Mallard X American Black Duck hybrid 11 Greater Scaup 130 Lesser Scaup 137 Bufflehead 236 Common Goldeneye 17 Common Merganser 129 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Common Loon 2 Double-crested Cormorant 8 Bald Eagle 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 38 Ring-billed Gull 76 Herring Gull 12 Great Black-backed Gull 2 Mourning Dove 3 Eastern Screech-Owl 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker 34 Downy Woodpecker 20 Northern Flicker 12 American Crow 13 Horned Lark 152 Black-capped Chickadee 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 28 Brown Creeper 7 Carolina Wren 2 Winter Wren 11 Golden-crowned Kinglet 7 Hermit Thrush 192 American Robin 4884 European Starling 11 Cedar Waxwing 25 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 3 Swamp Sparrow 22 White-throated Sparrow 9 Dark-eyed Junco 62 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Rusty Blackbird 16 Purple Finch 18 House Finch 9 American Goldfinch 31 House Sparrow 48 species and 1 hybrid 6726 individuals In addition, Vic and I stopped at the Sandusky coal dock to see the night-herons for his January list. We had 86 individuals there! Vic added 18 species to his January list and I added 3. We still have work to do. Tom -- 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]