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Monday, March 26, 2007 Sandy Tkach and I conducted the Kelleys Island
monthly census. This is the first day the ferry to the island has run since
late January, so this is why the census is about a week later than normal.
But the wait was worth it. What a day for birding. Wind was out of the
SW-W at 10-20 mph, partly cloudy and temperature in the high 60's low 70's.
Birds were singing everywhere and raptors were moving. It must have been a
great day on the hawk tower at Crane Creek. We had 44 raptors of 8 species
just on the census route. The March count has averaged 53 species over the
last nine years with a previous high of 62 species (2005). Today we had 74
species which now moves the average to 55 species for a March count. The
only new species added to the March count list was Gadwall. 98 species have
been observed on March counts over the last 10 years.
20 Horned Grebe
38 Double-crested Cormorant
7 Great Blue Heron
97 Canada Goose
3 Wood Duck
2 Gadwall
3 American Black Duck
55 Mallard
1 Mallard X Am. Black Duck
141 Redhead
6 Ring-necked Duck
4 Greater Scaup
119 Lesser Scaup
272 Bufflehead
905 Common Goldeneye
8 Hooded Merganser
11 Common Merganser
626 Red-breasted Merganser
20 Turkey Vulture
4 Bald Eagle
4 Northern Harrier
8 Sharp-shinned Hawk
9 Cooper's Hawk
13 Red-shouldered Hawk
3 Red-tailed Hawk
2 Rough-legged Hawk
1 American Kestrel
2 American Coot
22 Killdeer
1 American Woodcock
3 Bonaparte's Gull
23 Ring-billed Gull
302 Herring Gull
24 Great Black-backed Gull
10 Mourning Dove
1 Eastern Screech-Owl
3 Belted Kingfisher
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
17 Downy Woodpecker
32 Northern Flicker
10 Eastern Phoebe
1 Blue Jay
57 American Crow
9 Horned Lark
66 Tree Swallow
44 Black-capped Chickadee
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
17 Brown Creeper
4 Carolina Wren
1 Winter Wren
119 Golden-crowned Kinglet
9 Eastern Bluebird
1 Hermit Thrush
688 American Robin
2 Brown Thrasher
206 European Starling
4 American Pipit
4 Yellow-rumped Warbler
38 Northern Cardinal
3 Eastern Towhee
2 American Tree Sparrow
8 Fox Sparrow
20 Song Sparrow
4 White-throated Sparrow
108 Dark-eyed Junco
45 Lapland Longspur
1133 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Eastern Meadolark
13 Rusty Blackbird
1872 Common Grackle
32 Brown-headed Cowbird
147 House Finch
4 American Goldfinch
63 House Sparrow
7545 Total individuals
74 Species plus one hybrid
Tom Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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