JANUARY 01, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:15am-11:30am; 1:20pm-5:00pm TEMP.: 44-34 COND.: Cloudy & windy with intermittent rain; driving horizontal rain from 11:00am-11:30am; winds 20-40mph S/SW; cloudy & windy with intermittent rain in the afternoon, temperature dropping; sleet from 4:30pm-5:00pm. GROUP I: 6 persons; GROUP II: 6 persons. OBS.: Tom & Paula Bartlett (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Chris Pierce (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. NOTE: for a complete list of Christmas Bird Count participants please contact H. Thomas Bartlett.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 11
2. White-footed Mouse - 12
3. Muskrat - 1
4. Eastern Cottontail - 1
5. White-tailed Deer - 8
II. BIRDS: 59 SPECIES.
1. Snow Goose - 15 (5 blue phase, 10 white phase)
2. Canada Goose - 2,294
3. Mute Swan - 11
4. Trumpeter Swan - 44 (yellow neckbands "3AO" & "9AO")
5. Tundra Swan - 1,674
6. Wood Duck - 2
7. Gadwall - 57
8. American Wigeon - 2
9. American Black Duck - 57
10. Mallard - 1,476
11. Northern Shoveler - 30
12. Northern Pintail - 3
13. Redhead - 8
14. Greater Scaup - 1
15. Bufflehead - 2
16. Common Goldeneye - 1
17. Hooded Merganser - 4
18. Common Merganser - 1,023
19. Red-breasted Merganser - 1
20. Ruddy Duck - 1
21. Double-crested Cormorant - 1
22. Great Blue Heron - 20
23. Bald Eagle - 9 (4 adult, 5 immature)
24. Northern Harrier - 2
25. Cooper's Hawk - 1
26. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
27. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature)
28. American Coot - 42
29. Bonaparte's Gull - 106
30. Ring-billed Gull - 1,491
31. Herring Gull - 86
32. Mourning Dove - 43
33. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1
34. Great Horned Owl - 1
35. Belted Kingfisher - 1
36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
37. Downy Woodpecker - 14
38. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
39. Northern Flicker - 1
40. Blue Jay - 14
41. Black-capped Chickadee - 19
42. Tufted Titmouse - 7
43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 15
44. Brown Creeper - 13
45. Carolina Wren - 1
46. Winter Wren - 1
47. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
48. American Robin - 2
49. European Starling - 274
50. American Tree Sparrow - 148
51. Song Sparrow - 4
52. Swamp Sparrow - 1
53. White-throated Sparrow - 4
54. Dark-eyed Junco - 4
55. Northern Cardinal - 22
56. Red-winged Blackbird - 5
57. Common Grackle - 1
58. American Goldfinch - 29
59. House Sparrow - 59

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

______________________________________________________________________

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]