DEC. 06, 2009 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:35pm; 1:30pm-5:00pm TEMP.: 17-34-24 COND.: Cold, sunny & dry; no snow cover; SW wind at 5-12mph; most impoundments frozen, some with open pockets of water; Lake Erie open. OBS.: Tom Bartlett, Cheryl Harner, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 (in a Wood Duck box) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 3. White-footed Mouse - 1 4. Muskrat - 3 5. White-tailed Deer - 14 (buck:9-pt.; doe:5; yearling:8) II. BIRDS: 56 SPECIES, 1 RELEASE. 1. Snow Goose - 11 (6 blue, 5 white) 2. Canada Goose - 1,671 (black on white neck band: 278C) 3. Mute Swan - 11 R. Trumpeter Swan - 10 (yellow neck band: 1A1) 4. Tundra Swan - 819 5. Gadwall - 39 6. American Wigeon - 6 7. American Black Duck - 451 8. Mallard - 2,163 9. Northern Shoveler - 16 10. Northern Pintail - 30 11. Green-winged Teal - 1 12. Common Goldeneye - 9 13. Hooded Merganser - 83 14. Pied-billed Grebe - 11 15. Double-crested Cormorant - 1 16. Great Blue Heron - 46 17. Bald Eagle - 6 (4 adult, 2 immature) 18. Northern Harrier - 2 19. Cooper's Hawk - 2 20. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 dark phase) 21. American Kestrel - 2 22. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature) 23. American Coot - 206 24. Killdeer - 18 25. Wilson's Snipe - 1 26. Bonaparte's Gull - 37 27. Ring-billed Gull - 498 28. Herring Gull - 35 29. Mourning Dove - 33 30. Great Horned Owl - 3 31. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 32. Downy Woodpecker - 13 33. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 34. Northern Flicker - 3 35. Blue Jay - 10 36. Horned Lark - 1 37. Black-capped Chickadee - 6 38. Tufted Titmouse - 1 39. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 40. Brown Creeper - 3 41. Carolina Wren - 1 42. American Robin - 2 43. European Starling - 18 44. American Tree Sparrow - 109 45. Fox Sparrow - 1 46. Song Sparrow - 8 47. Swamp Sparrow - 8 48. White-throated Sparrow - 2 49. Dark-eyed Junco - 5 50. Snow Bunting - 2 51. Northern Cardinal - 39 52. Red-winged Blackbird - 3 53. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 54. House Finch - 1 55. American Goldfinch - 50 56. House Sparrow - 51 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Fathead Minnow - thousands 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]