JAN. 02, 2011 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-3:30pm TEMP.: 19-28 COND.: Sunny & cold early; partly sunny later. Wind west at 10-15mph; no snow cover; inland impoundments frozen; Lake Erie open except for some ice near shore. ROUTES: Same morning and afternoon routes as usual. GROUP I: 6 persons; GROUP II: 12 persons. OBS.: Linda Bishop, Mike Fitz, Kim Howard, Ken ?, Deb Neidert (morning only); H. Thomas Bartlett, Paula Bartlett, Aaron Bartley, Steve Borgis, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus (all day). NOTE: I apologize to those whose names I did not know and for a complete list of participants of the Ottawa CBC please contact H. Thomas Bartlett. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 2. White-footed Mouse - 10 3. Muskrat - 1 4. Eastern Cottontail - 2 5. White-tailed Deer - 6 II. BIRDS: 46 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 1,305 2. Tundra Swan - 240 3. Mallard - 206 4. Northern Pintail - 7 5. Great Blue Heron - 19 6. Bald Eagle - 6 (4 adult,2 immature) 7. Northern Harrier - 6 8. Cooper's Hawk - 2 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 10. American Kestrel - 2 11. Ring-billed Gull - 205 12. Herring Gull - 16 13. Mourning Dove - 3 14. Eastern Screech-Owl - 3 15. Great Horned Owl - 3 16. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (imm.) 17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 18 18. Downy Woodpecker - 44 19. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 20. Northern Flicker - 5 21. Northern Shrike - 1 22. Blue Jay - 31 23. Horned Lark - 2 24. Black-capped Chickadee - 25 25. Tufted Titmouse - 9 26. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 27. Brown Creeper - 4 28. Winter Wren - 1 29. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 30. American Robin - 18 31. European Starling - 194 32. American Pipit - 3 33. American Tree Sparrow - 381 34. Savannah Sparrow - 2 35. Song Sparrow - 12 36. Swamp Sparrow - 11 37. White-throated Sparrow - 50 38. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 39. Dark-eyed Junco - 15 40. Lapland Longspur - 41 41. Northern Cardinal - 53 42. Red-winged Blackbird - 56 43. Rusty Blackbird - 39 44. House Finch - 2 45. American Goldfinch - 82 46. House Sparrow - 56 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]