November 23, Vic Fazio, Sandy Tkach, and I conducted the regular monthly survey on the island. This is the 18th year for the November survey. 72 species and 27871 individuals were observed during the survey. Both are November highs! The November average is 56 species and 11,524 individuals. Only an American Coot was new for a November survey. Unusual species were Surf Scoter, Black Scoter, and Common Redpoll plus a Gadwall X Mallard hybrid. Surprising non-recorded species were American Tree Sparrow and Swamp Sparrow. In the evening, a Long-eared Owl was observed flying down Woodford Road. Today (11/24), with this warmer weather, a Turkey Vulture was observed. 229 Canada Goose 16 Gadwall 2 American Wigeon 7 American Black Duck 222 Mallard 1 American Black Duck X Mallard hybrid 1 Gadwall X Mallard hybrid 80 Redhead 914 Greater Scaup 578 Lesser Scaup 694 Scaup species? 3 Surf Scoter 6 Black Scoter 902 Bufflehead 164 Common Goldeneye 39 Hooded Merganser 19688 Red-breasted Merganser 5 Common Merganser 150 Merganser species? 9 Ruddy Duck 400 Duck species? 13 Common Loon 2 Pied-billed Grebe 957 Horned Grebe 13 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Northern Harrier 3 Bald Eagle 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 Cooper's Hawk 3 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 6 Killdeer 37 Bonaparte's Gull 293 Ring-billed Gull 57 Herring Gull 3 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Mourning Dove 2 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Great Horned Owl * Long-eared Owl 12 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 33 Downy Woodpecker 49 Northern Flicker 12 Horned Lark 3 Blue Jay 63 American Crow 133 Black-capped Chickadee 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 6 Brown Creeper 11 Carolina Wren 7 Winter Wren 8 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 Eastern Bluebird 15 Hermit Thrush 73 American Robin 1229 European Starling 19 American Pipit 156 Cedar Waxwing 32 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Spizella species? 7 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 73 White-throated Sparrow 31 Dark-eyed Junco 64 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 10 Common Grackle 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 6 Purple Finch 17 House Finch 7 Common Redpoll 126 Pine Siskin 13 American Goldfinch 21 House Sparrow 72 species 27871 Individuals * = Observed on survey day but not on or during route -- H. Thomas Bartlett Tiffin, Ohio [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]