MAR. 07, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:15pm; 1:30pm-4:30pm TEMP.: 20-44 COND.: Sunny, wind W/SW at 5-10mph; spotty snow cover; marshes mostly frozen with a few open areas; Lake Erie frozen. ROUTES: Same usual morning and afternoon routes except for eagle nesting areas. OBS.: Aaron Bartley, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES. 1. Mink - 1 2. Woodchuck - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 4. White-footed Mouse - 9 5. Meadow Vole - 1 6. Muskrat - 3 7. Eastern Cottontail - 4 8. White-tailed Deer - 5 II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES,1 RELEASE. 1. Snow Goose - 24 (16 white, 8 blue phase) 2. Canada Goose - 1,458 3. Mute Swan - 28 R. Trumpeter Swan - 19 4. Tundra Swan - 1,049 5. Wood Duck - 8 6. Gadwall - 42 7. American Wigeon - 16 8. American Black Duck - 74 9. Mallard - 473 10. Northern Shoveler - 3 11. Northern Pintail - 91 12. Green-winged Teal - 12 13. Canvasback - 14 14. Redhead - 321 15. Ring-necked Duck - 32 16. Lesser Scaup - 66 17. Bufflehead - 4 18. Common Goldeneye - 8 19. Hooded Merganser - 14 20. Common Merganser - 142 21. Ruddy Duck - 2 22. Great Blue Heron - 8 23. Bald Eagle - 8 (6 adult,2 imm.) 24. Northern Harrier - 2 25. Cooper's Hawk - 1 26. Red-tailed Hawk - 14 27. American Kestrel - 1 28. American Coot - 24 29. Killdeer - 24 30. Ring-billed Gull - 311 31. Herring Gull - 54 32. Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 (adults) 33. Mourning Dove - 11 34. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 35. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 36. Downy Woodpecker - 18 37. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 38. Northern Flicker - 1 39. Blue Jay - 15 40. American Crow - 31 41. Horned Lark - 95 42. Black-capped Chickadee - 19 43. Tufted Titmouse - 7 44. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 45. Brown Creeper - 2 46. Carolina Wren - 1 47. American Robin - 25 48. European Starling - 379 49. American Tree Sparrow - 94 50. Song Sparrow - 23 51. Lapland Longspur - 56 52. Snow Bunting - 1 53. Northern Cardinal - 46 54. Red-winged Blackbird - 673 55. Rusty Blackbird - 10 56. Common Grackle - 235 57. Brown-headed Cowbird - 65 58. House Finch - 9 59. American Goldfinch - 20 60. House Sparrow - 33 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]