NOV. 07, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:45pm-5:30pm TEMP.: 28-45 COND.: Chilly early, warming up; sunny all day; south wind 5-15mph GROUP I: 3 persons; GROUP II: 5 persons. ROUTES: Same morning routes as usual except west side where closed on outer dike along Crane Creek for construction; same afternoon routes as usual. OBS.: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus; Deb Neidert, Joel Prince, Al Schlecht & Sarah Weber (morning only); Earl Dunning, Deborah Kibbel & Larry Raper (afternoon only). I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. River Otter - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 3. Meadow Vole - 1 4. White-tailed Deer - 2 (both 6-pt. bucks) II. BIRDS: 74 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 539 2. Mute Swan - 3 3. Trumpeter Swan - 4 4. Tundra Swan - 22 5. Wood Duck - 19 6. Gadwall - 431 7. American Black Duck - 103 8. Mallard - 992 9. Blue-winged Teal - 1 10. Northern Shoveler - 31 11. Northern Pintail - 10 12. Green-winged Teal - 270 13. Lesser Scaup - 51 14. Hooded Merganser - 21 15. Red-breasted Merganser - 2 16. Ruddy Duck - 7 17. Pied-billed Grebe - 17 18. Double-crested Cormorant - 2 19. Great Blue Heron - 68 20. Great Egret - 4 21. Bald Eagle - 4 (3 adult,1 immature) 22. Northern Harrier - 5 23. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 24. Cooper's Hawk - 3 25. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 26. Peregrine Falcon - 1 27. American Coot - 77 28. Sandhill Crane - 4 29. Black-bellied Plover - 4 30. Killdeer - 171 31. Western Sandpiper - 2 32. Least Sandpiper - 1 33. Dunlin - 616 34. Wilson's Snipe - 1 35. Bonaparte's Gull - 100 36. Ring-billed Gull - 229 37. Herring Gull - 15 38. Mourning Dove - 20 39. Great Horned Owl - 1 40. Short-eared Owl - 1 41. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 42. Downy Woodpecker - 13 43. Northern Flicker - 9 44. Blue Jay - 13 45. American Crow - 1 46. Horned Lark - 1 47. Tree Swallow - 24 48. Black-capped Chickadee - 9 49. Tufted Titmouse - 2 50. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 51. Brown Creeper - 1 52. Carolina Wren - 1 53. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 54. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 55. Eastern Bluebird - 6 56. Hermit Thrush - 2 57. American Robin - 33 58. European Starling - 201 59. American Tree Sparrow - 209 60. Field Sparrow - 1 61. Fox Sparrow - 24 62. Song Sparrow - 13 63. Swamp Sparrow - 4 64. White-throated Sparrow - 46 65. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 66. Dark-eyed Junco - 31 67. Northern Cardinal - 18 68. Red-winged Blackbird - 699 69. Rusty Blackbird - 168 70. Common Grackle - 4 71. Brown-headed Cowbird - 52 72. House Finch - 9 73. American Goldfinch - 70 74. House Sparrow - 17 III. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Red Admiral - 1 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]