Wednesday, the 13th, Sandy Tkach and I conduct the 16th Kelleys Island March monthly survey. Weather conditions were overcast to PC, 30-33 F, S-SW to NW winds of 10-30 mph with blinding snow squalls. Survey began at 0815 EST and ended 1300 EST. We observed 49 species and 4749 individuals which was below the 16 year average of 54 species and 5501 individuals. Weather conditions definitely affected the survey but it appeared that much of the waterfowl had all ready headed north and some of the early migrants had not moved in. 44 Canada Goose 71 Mallard 4 Greater Scaup 264 Bufflehead 1409 Common Goldeneye 2 Hooded Merganser 13 Common Merganser 218 Red-breasted Merganser * Wild Turkey 2 Great Blue Heron 4 Turkey Vulture 7 Bald Eagle 3 Red-tailed Hawk 4 Killdeer 717 Ring-billed Gull 358 Herring Gull 2 Great Black-backed Gull 2 Mourning Dove 2 Eastern Screech-Owl * Red-bellied Woodpecker 16 Downy Woodpecker 8 Northern Flicker 2 Blue Jay 96 American Crow 3 Horned Lark 43 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 11 Brown Creeper 7 Carolina Wren 3 Winter Wren 5 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 2 Hermit Thrush 161 American Robin 53 European Starling 22 Yellow-rumped Warbler 12 American Tree Sparrow 2 Fox Sparrow 15 Song Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 22 White-throated Sparrow 43 Dark-eyed Junco 34 Northern Cardinal 427 Red-winged Blackbird 35 Rusty Blackbird 469 Common Grackle 55 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 Purple Finch 4 House Finch * American Goldfinch 63 House Sparrow 49 species (16 year Average = 54 species) 4749 individuals (16 year Average = 5501 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]