Subject: Kelleys Island birds 1/19 thru 1/23
From: Tom Bartlett
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:19:37 -0500
Since I spent 5 days on Kelleys, I thought I would list all species observed
in addition to the census information which I all ready posted. Below is
the list of species observed, the highest count, and the date of that count.
In all, 58 species were observed, 1 race, and 1 hybred. If the high count
was on the census date, I am not listing that date. Also, on the census
posting I had species listed with an *. This means that the species was
observed on the island on that date but not on the census route.
It is very interesting to see how individual species numbers change each day
as weather changes. Waterfowl species and gull species appear to be moving.
1 Pied-billed Grebe 1/20 and 1/22
1 Turkey Vulture 1/19
35 Canada Goose 1/23
119 Gadwall
6 American Wigeon
115 American Black Duck
572 Mallard
3 Mallard X American Black Duck
35 Redhead 1/22
5 Greater Scaup 1/22-23
8 Lesser Scaup 1/21
2 Harlequin Duck
2 Scoter species
1350 Bufflehead 1/19
220 Common Goldeneye 1/22
30 Common Merganser 1/21
1900 Red-breasted Merganser 1/22
5 Ruddy Duck 1/21-22
4 Bald Eagle (2 adults, 1 four-year old, 1 first year)
2 Cooper's Hawk 1/21
1 Red-tailed Hawk 1/21
3 Bonaparte's Gull 1/23
110 Ring-billed Gull 1/19
150 Herring Gull 1/23
3 Great Black-backed Gull 1/22
2 Mourning Dove 1/22
1 Eastern Screech-Owl 1/21
2 Great Horned Owl 1/21
1 Northern Saw-whet Owl 1/20 and 1/22
3 Red-bellied Woodpecker
14 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker 1/22
6 Northern Flicker
3 Blue Jay 1/23
38 American Crow 1/19
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1/23
20 Brown Creeper 1/21
2 Carolina Wren
1 Winter Wren
25 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1/21
2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1/21
8 Eastern Bluebird
22 Hermit Thrush
250 American Robin 1/19
1 Northern Mockingbird
23 Yellow-rumped Warbler
51 American Tree Sparrow
6 Song Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
101 White-throated Sparrow 1/20
75 Dark-eyed Junco
2 Oregon Junco plus numerous intergrades in the Dark-eyed Junco
flocks
3 Snow Bunting 1/23
75 Northern Cardinal 1/20
3 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Rusty Blackbird 1/23
22 House Finch 1/21
10 American Goldfinch 1/20
20 House Sparrow 1/23