MAR. 02, 2008 - Monthly Ottawa N.W.R. Census. TIME: 8:00am - 5:00pm TEMP.: 28-36 COND.: Mostly cloudy, wind S/SE to 12 mph. OBS.: Aaron & Father, Marc Nolls, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlacht, Jack & Janet Volker, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 9 SPECIES. 1. Opossum - 2 2. Striped Skunk - 1 3. Coyote - 2 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 5. White-footed Mouse - 3 6. Meadow Vole - 1 7. Muskrat - 2 8. Eastern Cottontail - 6 9. White-tailed Deer - 19 II. BIRDS: 61 SPECIES. 1. Snow Goose - 24+ 2. Canada Goose - 1,595 3. Mute Swan - 22 4. Tundra Swan - 899 5. Wood Duck - 2 6. Gadwall - 162 7. American Wigeon - 4 8. American Black Duck - 24 9. Mallard - 253 10. Northern Pintail - 13 11. Canvasback - 8 12. Redhead - 424 13. Ring-necked Duck - 18 14. Lesser Scaup - 35 15. Bufflehead - 2 16. Common Goldeneye - 6 17. Hooded Merganser - 7 18. Common Merganser - 89 19. Ruddy Duck - 7 20. Great Blue Heron - 20 21. Bald Eagle - 10 (4 adult, 6 juv.) 22. Northern Harrier - 6 23. Cooper's Hawk - 2 24. Red-tailed Hawk - 12 25. American Kestrel - 1 26. American Coot - 132 27. Killdeer - 13 28. Ring-billed Gull - 161 29. Herring Gull - 10 30. Mourning Dove - 23 31. Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 (gray phase) 32. Great Horned Owl - 5 (1 on nest) 33. Long-eared Owl - 1 34. Short-eared Owl - 2 35. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 36. Downy Woodpecker - 15 37. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 38. Northern Flicker - 4 39. Northern Shrike - 1 40. Blue Jay - 10 41. American Crow - 292 42. Horned Lark - 52 43. Black-capped Chickadee - 6 44. Tufted Titmouse - 2 45. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 46. Carolina Wren - 1 47. American Robin - 34 48. Northern Mockingbird - 1 49. European Starling - 943 50. American Tree Sparrow - 191 51. Fox Sparrow - 1 52. Song Sparrow - 25 53. Swamp Sparrow - 3 54. Dark-eyed Junco - 19 55. Northern Cardinal - 36 56. Red-winged Blackbird - 288 57. Rusty Blackbird - 42 58. Common Grackle - 16 59. Brown-headed Cowbird - 322 60. American Goldfinch - 8 61. House Sparrow - 6 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]