Today we conducted the monthly census on Kelleys Island. Participants included Tom Bartlett, Phil & Phyllis Corathers, and Sandy Tkach. Weather was a beautiful mid-winter day; temps 17-30 F, winds NW 5-10 mph, with cloudy to party cloudy skies. Time period was from 7:30 Am to noon. The eleven year average number of species on a February census is 39 species and we had 40 species today. The average total number of individuals is 4542 and today's total was 2354 which is well below average. All of the shoreline of the island is surrounded by ice with open pockets of water. Most of these pockets were changing in size and location during the day. One new species was added to the February list which now stands at 76 species. That species was Eastern Bluebird. 27 Canada Goose 3 Gadwall 29 Greater Scaup 32 Bufflehead 522 Common Goldeneye 161 Common Merganser 7 Red-breasted Merganser 600+ Diving duck species? 9 Bald Eagle (6 adults, 3 immature) 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Ring-billed Gull 211 Herring Gull 17 Great Black-backed Gull 25 Gull species? 2 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Great Horned Owl 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 22 Downy Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker 2 Blue Jay 36 American Crow 11 Horned Lark 48 Black-capped Chickadee 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 7 Brown Creeper 6 Carolina Wren 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 8 Eastern Bluebird 2 Hermit Thrush 117 American Robin 156 European Starling 27 Yellow-rumped Warbler 13 American Tree Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 58 White-throated Sparrow 57 Dark-eyed Junco 78 Northern Cardinal 4 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 34 House Sparrow 40 Total species 2354 Total individuals Tom 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]