We did the Lake Erie Islands Christmas bird count today. I haven't heard ftom the other islands but it was pretty amazing with quite a few rare birds. I'm guessing we'll end up with over 70 for that island alone. Rare birds found: long-tailed duck 2, turkey vulture 4, merlin 1, sanderling 2, dunlin 1, great black-backed x herring gull hybrid 1, yellow-bellied sapaucker 2, western kingbird 1, hermit thrush 68+, rusty blackbird 2, purple finch 66+, and common redpolls 29. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]