Tom Behlen, Shane Roberts, Paula, and I conducted the 19th September Monthly Survey yesterday. The 19 year average is 72 species and we observed 73 species. However the 19 year average of total individuals is 4,876 individuals and we only observed 2980. Weather was beautiful. Highlights were numerous warbler species, although we missed several regulars, Pied-billed Grebe (3rd time), Northern Harrier - 2 (2nd time), and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (3 rd time). 80 Canada Goose 1 Wood Duck 104 Mallard 1 Pied-billed Grebe 62 Double-crested Cormorant * American White Pelican (5 off Long Point in evening) 8 Great Blue Heron 8 Turkey Vulture 8 Bald Eagle 2 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 9 Killdeer 13 Bonaparte's Gull 407 Ring-billed Gull 269 Herring Gull 2 Great Black-backed Gull 375 Gull species 2 Caspian Tern 10 Mourning Dove 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 5 Eastern Screech-Owl 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 7 Belted Kingfisher 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 24 Downy Woodpecker 21 Northern Flicker 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 13 Eastern Phoebe 3 Blue-headed Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 1 Philadelphia Vireo 9 Red-eyed Vireo 6 Vireo species 36 Blue Jay 33 American Crow * Tree Swallow 72 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Red-breasted Nuthatch 6 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 8 House Wren 12 Carolina Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 8 Gray-cheeked Thrush 38 Swainson's Thrush 19 Thrush species 197 American Robin 7 Gray Catbird 1 Brown Thrasher 155 European Starling 93 Cedar Waxwing 1 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 1 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 3 Nashville Warbler 1 Northern Parula 2 Magnolia Warbler 2 Bay-breasted Warbler 31 Blackpoll Warbler 8 Palm Warbler 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler 98 Warbler species 56 Chipping Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 51 Northern Cardinal 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 7 Indigo Bunting 2 Bobolink 51 Common Grackle 14 Brown-headed Cowbird 400 Blackbird species 1 Baltimore Oriole 22 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 53 House Sparrow 73 species observed 2980 individuals * = observed on survey day but not on 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]