We will blog on this again later this week but here are the total bird numbers recorded during our weekend blitz at the Oak Lake/Plum Lakes IBA:
| Species Name | Species Count | |||
| Western Group | Eastern Group | Additional records | TOTAL | |
| Canada Goose | 46 | 19 | 25 | 90 |
| Gadwall | 43 | 24 | 5 | 72 |
| American Wigeon | 2 | 7 | 9 | |
| Mallard | 78 | 82 | 15 | 175 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 38 | 67 | 105 | |
| Northern Shoveler | 30 | 52 | 82 | |
| Green-winged Teal | 7 | 2 | 9 | |
| dabbling duck sp. | 19 | 5 | 24 | |
| Canvasback | 8 | 1 | 9 | |
| Redhead | 8 | 58 | 66 | |
| Lesser Scaup | 8 | 37 | 3 | 48 |
| Bufflehead | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Ruddy Duck | 11 | 8 | 19 | |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 3 | 3 | ||
| Red-necked Grebe | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Eared Grebe | 11 | 60 | 10 | 81 |
| Great Blue Heron | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | 2 | 2 | ||
| Turkey Vulture | 2 | 2 | ||
| Northern Harrier | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 3 | 8 | 11 | |
| Virginia Rail | 2 | 2 | ||
| Sora | 11 | 11 | ||
| American Coot | 26 | 18 | 1 | 45 |
| American Avocet | 2 | 9 | 11 | |
| Killdeer | 18 | 23 | 2 | 43 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 1 | 1 | ||
| Willet | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 1 | 1 | ||
| Upland Sandpiper | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Marbled Godwit | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Wilson’s Snipe | 19 | 3 | 22 | |
| Wilson’s Phalarope | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| Franklin’s Gull | 35 | 65 | 100 | |
| Black Tern | 63 | 43 | 2 | 108 |
| Rock Pigeon | 6 | 6 | ||
| Mourning Dove | 16 | 27 | 43 | |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | 2 | 2 | ||
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | ||
| Northern Flicker | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| American Kestrel | 1 | 1 | ||
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 2 | 2 | ||
| Least Flycatcher | 16 | 8 | 24 | |
| Eastern Phoebe | 1 | 1 | ||
| Western Kingbird | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Eastern Kingbird | 21 | 30 | 51 | |
| Warbling Vireo | 8 | 6 | 14 | |
| Black-billed Magpie | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| American Crow | 4 | 4 | ||
| Common Raven | 7 | 10 | 17 | |
| Purple Martin | 2 | 30 | 32 | |
| Tree Swallow | 10 | 37 | 4 | 51 |
| Barn Swallow | 18 | 52 | 70 | |
| Cliff Swallow | 335 | 335 | ||
| Black-capped Chickadee | 3 | 3 | ||
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 6 | 6 | ||
| House Wren | 3 | 7 | 10 | |
| Sedge Wren | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Marsh Wren | 78 | 2 | 80 | |
| Eastern Bluebird | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Mountain Bluebird | 2 | 2 | ||
| American Robin | 18 | 40 | 58 | |
| Gray Catbird | 1 | 6 | 7 | |
| European Starling | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| Sprague’s Pipit | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cedar Waxwing | 8 | 8 | ||
| Black-and-white Warbler | 3 | 3 | ||
| Common Yellowthroat | 7 | 6 | 13 | |
| Yellow Warbler | 14 | 35 | 49 | |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Le Conte’s Sparrow | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
| Nelson’s Sparrow | 1 | 1 | ||
| Chipping Sparrow | 8 | 8 | ||
| Clay-colored Sparrow | 9 | 7 | 16 | |
| Lark Sparrow | 1 | 1 | ||
| Vesper Sparrow | 7 | 7 | ||
| Savannah Sparrow | 66 | 16 | 82 | |
| Song Sparrow | 7 | 7 | ||
| Swamp Sparrow | 3 | 3 | ||
| Bobolink | 22 | 13 | 35 | |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 310 | 135 | 7 | 452 |
| Western Meadowlark | 32 | 20 | 52 | |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird | 76 | 129 | 3 | 208 |
| Brewer’s Blackbird | 20 | 3 | 23 | |
| Common Grackle | 5 | 29 | 34 | |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 17 | 45 | 62 | |
| Baltimore Oriole | 7 | 4 | 11 | |
| American Goldfinch | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| House Sparrow | 8 | 3 | 11 | |
| TOTAL | 1701 | 1372 | 81 | 3154 |
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