FEB. 06, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-4:00pm TEMP.: 25-33 COND.: Cloudy, snow cover 4" to 18"; wind from south 10-15mph; all impoundments, ditches & lakes frozen. GROUPS: I: 2 persons; II: 4 persons. ROUTES: West side usual; east side morning route and entire afternoon route inaccessible due to lack of plowing; no access to Lake Erie. OBS.: Aaron Bartley, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Opossum - 1 2. Mink - 1 3. White-footed Mouse - 3 4. Eastern Cottontail - 1 5. White-tailed Deer - 11 II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 31 2. Bald Eagle - 2 (adults) 3. Northern Harrier - 5 4. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 5. Cooper's Hawk - 3 6. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 7. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (dark phase) 8. American Kestrel - 3 9. Rock Pigeon - 1 10. Mourning Dove - 31 11. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 12. Downy Woodpecker - 31 13. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 14. Northern Flicker - 3 15. Blue Jay - 18 16. Horned Lark - 64 17. Black-capped Chickadee - 9 18. Tufted Titmouse - 5 19. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 20. Brown Creeper - 1 21. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 22. American Robin - 10 23. European Starling - 81 24. Cedar Waxwing - 12 25. American Tree Sparrow - 169 26. Savannah Sparrow - 2 (see below) 27. Fox Sparrow - 1 28. Song Sparrow - 9 29. Swamp Sparrow - 1 30. White-throated Sparrow - 20 31. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 32. Dark-eyed Junco - 62 33. Snow Bunting - 17 34. Northern Cardinal - 69 35. Red-winged Blackbird - 7 36. Common Grackle - 3 37. Brown-headed Cowbird - 154 38. House Finch - 16 39. American Goldfinch - 34 40. House Sparrow - 33 NOTE: The 2 Savannah Sparrows reported on the Christmas Bird Count in early January by D. Vogus are apparently holding steady. Birds were observed by A. Bartley, E. Pierce, J. Reyda & D. Vogus at the corners of Stange & Krause Rds. close to where previously reported near the prarie on Stange Rd. Birds were in the company of Amer. Tree Sparrows, Song Sparrows, Dark-eyed Junco's and 1 Swamp Sparrow along edges of said roads in the grit and grass where the county snowplows had cleared the roads. Also 2 dead Winter Wrens were found in the old phoebe nest on the porch of the old Ottawa N.W.R. headquarters, appeared to succumb to previous night's weather. 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]