Unofficial results from the monthly Ottawa N.W.R. Census (many do not have totals listed) FEB. 04, 2007 - Hike the east and west sides, lunch at 12:00pm, drive the backside from 1:00pm-4:30pm. TEMP.: -2 to 3 (8am-noon), not much warmer for the rest of the count. COND.: Frigid, bright & sunny early; frigid w/ clouds/sun mix later. WIND: 15-25mph from the west. OBS.: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 2. White-tailed Deer - 7 (1 buck,4 doe,2?) II. BIRDS: 46 SPECIES. (@= approximately - I don't have the exact totals yet) 1. Canada Goose - (over 2500 on front, less on back) 2. Snow Goose - 40 (20 white phase, 20 blue phase) 3. Mute Swan - 2 4. Tundra Swan - (632 on back, less on front) 5. Trumpeter Swan - 11 6. American Black Duck - @20 7. Mallard - (236 on back side, less on front) 8. American Wigeon - 4 (front side) 9. Redhead - @12 10. Common Goldeneye - @30 11. Ruddy Duck - 2 12. Hooded Merganser - 2 13. Common Merganser - @70 14. Cooper's Hawk - 1 15. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 16. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult, 2 immature) 17. Northern Harrier - 4 (1m,3f) 18. American Coot - @80 19. Great Black-backed Gull - 1 20. Herring Gull - @10 21. Ring-billed Gull - @20 22. Mourning Dove - @17 23. Great Horned Owl - 1 24. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray phase) 25. Northern Flicker - 1 26. Red-bellied Woodpecker - @4 27. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (adult in Butternut Woods) 28. Downy Woodpecker - @10 29. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 *** one Eastern Phoebe dead in the snow*** 30. Horned Lark - 3 31. Blue Jay 32. Tufted Titmouse - 1 33. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 34. Carolina Wren 35. American Robin - @4 36. European Starling 37. Dark-eyed Junco 38. American Tree Sparrow 39. Swamp Sparrow - 1 40. Song Sparrow 41. Eastern Meadowlark - 12 (all together on back side) 42. Red-winged Blackbird - 1 (m) 43. Northern Cardinal 44. House Finch - 1 45. American Goldfinch 46. House Sparrow Douglas W. Vogus, Akron, Ohio. --------------------------------- Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]