Hey Everyone, December 1st (Sunday) will be the first day of winter listing for the season, running until February 29th. This winter season I will be taking over compiling the winter bird list for Ontario from Josh Vandermeulen. Thanks Josh for doing this the last few years. There have been about 351 species of birds recorded in Ontario during the winter period. Last winter 203 species were recorded which is about average. The average is 204 species looking at data for the last 12 years. Some of the highlights from last year included Lazuli Bunting, Great Kiskadee, Western Kingbird, and Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Just post your sightings to Ontbirds (if sufficiently rare), ebird.org, or send me an email, and I will update the list accordingly and provide an update to Ontbirds every couple of weeks. That way you can check the list and inform me of any species that have been seen but are not present on the list. The list can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/myyulvs. I will try to update the spreadsheet every couple of days or whenever I hear of a new addition. Please let me know if you hear of a new addition or have any other corrections to the spreadsheet. Let's hope for a good winter, Todd Hagedorn