MAR. 01, 2009 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-5:00pm TEMP.: 18-24 COND.: Cold and sunny in the morning, bitterly cold wind off the lake from the N-NE at 10-12mph; clouding up late afternoon. No snow cover; inland marshes 90-percent frozen; Lake Erie frozen out to a quarter mile with some very small pockets of open water along the lake. OBS.: Steve Borgis, Marc Nolls, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Fred Riley, Al & Betty Schlacht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 9 SPECIES. 1. Opossum - 1 2. Raccoon - 1 3. Mink - 1 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 5. White-footed Mouse - 1 6. Meadow Vole - 1 7. Muskrat - 1 8. Eastern Cottontail - 1 9. White-tailed Deer - 36 II. BIRDS: 63 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 2,188 2. Mute Swan - 14 3. Trumpeter Swan - 22 4. Tundra Swan - 368 5. Wood Duck - 1 6. Gadwall - 35 7. American Wigeon - 23 8. American Black Duck - 78 9. Mallard - 96 10. Northern Shoveler - 11 11. Northern Pintail - 27 12. Green-winged Teal - 4 13. Canvasback - 10 14. Redhead - 300 15. Ring-necked Duck - 8 16. Lesser Scaup - 28 17. Bufflehead - 6 18. Common Goldeneye - 25 19. Hooded Merganser - 50 20. Common Merganser - 74 21. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 22. Horned Grebe - 15 23. Red-necked Grebe - 2 24. Great Blue Heron - 12 25. Bald Eagle - 12 (4 adult, 8 immature) 26. Northern Harrier - 1 27. Red-tailed Hawk - 10 28. American Kestrel - 5 29. American Coot - 5 30. Ring-billed Gull - 561 31. Herring Gull - 162 32. Great Black-backed Gull - 1 33. Mourning Dove - 18 34. Great Horned Owl - 4 (2 nests) 35. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 37. Downy Woodpecker - 12 38. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 39. Northern Flicker - 2 40. Blue Jay - 10 41. American Crow - 18 42. Horned Lark - 93 43. Black-capped Chickadee - 6 44. Tufted Titmouse - 3 45. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 46. Brown Creeper - 1 47. American Robin - 2 48. European Starling - 327 49. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 50. American Tree Sparrow - 105 51. Fox Sparrow - 1 52. Song Sparrow - 5 53. White-throated Sparrow - 3 54. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 55. Dark-eyed Junco - 9 56. Lapland Longspur - 8 57. Northern Cardinal - 19 58. Red-winged Blackbird - 80 59. Common Grackle - 2 60. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 61. House Finch - 1 62. American Goldfinch - 19 63. House Sparrow - 60 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]