FEB. 01, 2009 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-4:30pm TEMP.: 35-43-37 COND.: Mostly sunny, southwest wind 8-12mph; snow cover 8-12 inches, some areas blown clear, most areas drifting to over the knees. No open water including Lake Erie. OBS.: Marc Nolls, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Opossum - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 3. White-footed Mouse - 2 4. Eastern Cottontail - 7 5. White-tailed Deer - 7 II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES. 1. Trumpeter Swan - 4 2. Canada Goose - 4 ** Ring-necked Pheasant - 1 (tracks only) 3. Great Blue Heron - 2 4. Bald Eagle - 8 (6 adult,2 immature) 5. Northern Harrier - 1 6. Cooper's Hawk - 1 7. Red-tailed Hawk - 9 8. American Kestrel - 5 9. Merlin - 1 10. Ring-billed Gull - 7 11. Herring Gull - 6 12. Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 (adult) 13. Mourning Dive - 61 14. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray phase) 15. Great Horned Owl - 2 16. Snowy Owl - 1 17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 18. Downy Woodpecker - 10 19. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 20. Northern Flicker - 2 21. Blue Jay - 23 22. Horned Lark - 14 23. Black-capped Chickadee - 7 24. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 25. Brown Creeper - 6 26. Carolina Wren - 2 27. American Robin - 6 28. European Starling - 30 29. Cedar Waxwing - 2 30. American Tree Sparrow - 69 31. Song Sparrow - 4 32. White-throated Sparrow - 4 33. Dark-eyed Junco - 12 34. Snow Bunting - 10 35. Northern Cardinal - 40 36. Red-winged Blackbird - 1 37. Brown-headed Cowbird - 19 38. House Finch - 2 39. American Goldfinch - 17 40. House Sparrow - 23 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]