Here within is the unofficial results from the monthly Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge census. Ed Pierce will have official results later. FEB. 03, 2008 - Hike the east and west sides, break for lunch, then drive the backside impoundments after lunch. TIME: 8:00am-5:30pm TEMP.: 32-37-35 COND.: Cloudy and calm all day. OBS.: Richard Johnson, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Bert Szabo, Douglas W. Vogus, Jack & Janet Volker, and I apologize for the two others whose names I didn't fully get - Steve ? and ?. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Coyote - 1 2. White-footed Mouse - 3 3. Muskrat - 1 4. Eastern Cottontail - 5 5. White-tailed Deer - 24 II. BIRDS: 59 SPECIES (Unofficially) 1. Snow Goose - 49 (31 blue, 18 white) 2. Canada Goose - 11,778 3. Mute Swan - 11 4. Trumpeter Swan - 8 5. Tundra Swan - 150+ 6. Gadwall - 2 7. American Black Duck - 30+ 8. Mallard - 200+ 9. Northern Pintail - 25+ 10. Canvasback - 2 (m) 11. Ring-necked Duck - 2 (m) 12. Lesser Scaup - 20+ 13. Bufflehead - 4 (1m,3f) 14. Common Merganser - 36 15. Red-breasted Merganser - 2 16. Great Blue Heron - 20+ 17. Bald Eagle - 11 (4 adult, 7 immature) 18. Northern Harrier - 7 (1m,6f) 19. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (juv. f) 20. Cooper's Hawk - 4 21. Red-tailed Hawk - 10 22. American Kestrel - 2 23. American Coot - 10 24. Ring-billed Gull - 50+ 25. Herring Gull - 30+ 26. Great Black-backed Gull - 1 27. Mourning Dove - 25+ 28. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray phase) 29. Great Horned Owl - 1 30. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 31. Downy Woodpecker - 12+ 32. Hairy Woodpecker - 5+ 33. Northern Flicker - 4 34. Northern Shrike - 1 35. Blue Jay - 20 36. American Crow - 1 37. Horned Lark - 20 38. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 39. Tufted Titmouse - 18 40. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 41. Winter Wren - 1 42. American Robin - 20 43. Northern Mockingbird - 1 44. European Starling - 50+ 45. American Tree Sparrow - 230+ 46. Field Sparrow - 1 47. Song Sparrow - 10 48. Swamp Sparrow - 7 49. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 50. Snow Bunting - 16 51. Northern Cardinal - 20+ 52. Red-winged Blackbird - 5 53. Eastern Meadowlark - 10+ 54. Rusty Blackbird - 13 55. Common Grackle - 1 56. Brown-headed Cowbird - 226 57. House Finch - 8 58. American Goldfinch - 45+ 59. House Sparrow - 2 --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]