DEC. 05, 2010 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-5:00pm TEMP.: 26-24 COND.: Cold, partly cloudy in the morning turning mostly cloudy; winds NW at 10-15mph; now snow cover; several open areas in inside impoundments, Lake Erie open with choppy water. GROUP I: 5 persons; GROUP II: 15 persons. ROUTES: Same morning and afternoon routes as usual except where dike construction prohibited crossing. OBS.: Delores Cole, Mischele Fisher, Deb Neidert, Al & Betty Schlecht, Abbey Starkey, Jennifer Taylor, Kim Whitmore, Bob Morris' Boy Scout Troop 160 - Ldr. Bob Morris, Benjamin Doty, Cristian Griffith, Jonathan Griffith, Christopher Pfaff, Hunter Quillen, Austin Taylor & Andrew Whitmore (morning only); Aaron Bartley, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 2. White-footed Mouse - 17 3. Eastern Cottontail - 1 4. White-tailed Deer - 10 II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 1,091 2. Mute Swan - 11 3. Trumpeter Swan - 6 4. Tundra Swan - 343 5. Wood Duck - 2 6. Gadwall - 75 7. American Black Duck - 27 8. Mallard - 1,356 9. Northern Shoveler - 43 10. Northern Pintail - 10 11. Green-winged Teal - 14 12. Lesser Scaup - 21 13. Bufflehead - 2 14. Hooded Merganser - 12 15. Red-breasted Merganser - 11 16. Ruddy Duck - 1 17. Great Blue Heron - 59 18. Bald Eagle - 6 (3 adult, 3 imm.) 19. Northern Harrier - 6 20. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 21. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light phase) 22. American Kestrel - 1 23. American Coot - 55 24. Sandhill Crane - 5 25. Killdeer - 7 26. Dunlin - 2 27. Bonaparte's Gull - 11 28. Ring-billed Gull - 1,883 29. Herring Gull - 359 30. Great Black-backed Gull - 5 31. Mourning Dove - 7 32. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 33. Great Horned Owl - 3 34. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 35. Downy Woodpecker - 28 36. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 37. Northern Flicker - 5 38. Northern Shrike - 1 39. Blue Jay - 37 40. Tree Swallow - 9 41. Black-capped Chickadee - 11 42. Tufted Titmouse - 1 43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 44. Brown Creeper - 1 45. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6 46. American Robin - 8 47. European Starling - 16 48. American Tree Sparrow - 124 49. Fox Sparrow - 2 50. Song Sparrow - 4 51. Swamp Sparrow - 1 52. White-throated Sparrow - 14 53. White-crowned Sparrow - 2 54. Dark-eyed Junco - 12 55. Northern Cardinal - 40 56. Red-winged Blackbird - 2 57. Common Grackle - 1 58. House Finch - 3 59. American Goldfinch - 28 60. House Sparrow - 22 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]