JAN. 03, 2010 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-4:00pm TEMP.: 5-22-19 COND.: Cold & partly cloudy early; cold, sunny & bright later. Wind NW 5-15mph. Marshes frozen except for one open area on backside; Lake frozen except for several leads of open water. Snow cover less than one inch. OBS.: Tom Bartlett, Aaron Bartley, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. (NOTE: results are part of Christmas Bird Count - for complete list of participants contact Tom Bartlett) I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Opossum - 1 2. Coyote - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 4. White-footed Mouse - 11 5. Meadow Vole - 3 6. Eastern Cottontail - 3 7. White-tailed Deer - 10 II. BIRDS: 45 SPECIES, 1 RELEASE. 1. Canada Goose - 1,167 2. Mute Swan - 5 R. Trumpeter Swan - 21 (green band: 74V; yellow bands: 4A6,1A1 & 1A2) 3. Tundra Swan - 613 4. Gadwall - 1 5. American Black Duck - 15 6. Mallard - 3 7. Bufflehead - 1 8. Common Goldeneye - 14 9. Common Merganser - 4 10. Great Blue Heron - 8 11. Bald Eagle - 7 (4 adult,3 immature) 12. Northern Harrier - 2 13. Red-tailed Hawk - 11 14. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light phase) 15. American Kestrel - 2 16. Ring-billed Gull - 45 17. Herring Gull - 4,500 (per T. Bartlett) 18. Great Black-backed Gull - 3 19. Mourning Dove - 72 20. Eastern Screech-Owl - 4 21. Great Horned Owl - 4 22. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 22 23. Downy Woodpecker - 36 24. Hairy Woodpecker - 7 25. Northern Flicker - 7 26. Blue Jay - 42 27. Black-capped Chickadee - 14 28. Tufted Titmouse - 6 29. White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 30. Brown Creeper - 16 31. American Robin - 2 32. Gray Catbird - 1 33. European Starling - 65 34. Cedar Waxwing - 1 35. American Tree Sparrow - 569 36. Song Sparrow - 10 37. Swamp Sparrow - 3 38. Dark-eyed Junco - 17 39. Northern Cardinal - 94 40. Red-winged Blackbird - 41 41. Common Grackle - 77 42. Brown-headed Cowbird - 258 43. House Finch - 2 44. American Goldfinch - 89 45. House Sparrow - 75 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Fathead Minnow - several thousand 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]