MARCH 06, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:15pm; 1:30pm-5:45pm TEMP.: 25-34 COND.: Mostly cloudy in the morning, mostly sunny in the afternoon; snow cover at 2 inches, melting away later; wind NE at 10-15mph; all channels and creeks open, marshes mostly frozen; Lake Erie frozen. GROUP I: 3 persons; GROUP II: 3 persons. ROUTES: Same morning and afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. OBS.: Deb Neidert, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only); Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus (all day). I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Mink - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 3. Muskrat - 1 4. White-tailed Deer - 25 II. BIRDS: 66 SPECIES. 1. Snow Goose - 11 (5 blue phase, 6 white phase) 2. Canada Goose - 3,636 3. Mute Swan - 1 4. Trumpeter Swan - 18 (yellow collars: "3A0" & "3A8") 5. Tundra Swan - 714 6. Wood Duck - 40 7. Gadwall - 92 8. American Wigeon - 3 9. American Black Duck - 60 10. Mallard - 300 11. Blue-winged Teal - 1 12. Northern Shoveler - 24 13. Northern Pintail - 94 14. Canvasback - 1 15. Redhead - 608 16. Ring-necked Duck - 135 17. Lesser Scaup - 157 18. Bufflehead - 17 19. Common Goldeneye - 2 20. Hooded Merganser - 53 21. Common Merganser - 129 22. Ruddy Duck - 7 23. Pied-billed Grebe - 5 24. Double-crested Cormorant - 1 25. Great Blue Heron - 8 26. Bald Eagle - 16 (6 adult, 10 immature, 2 nests) 27. Northern Harrier - 3 28. Cooper's Hawk - 1 29. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 30. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (dark phase) 31. American Kestrel - 2 32. American Coot - 322 33. Killdeer - 3 34. American Woodcock - 7 (plus 1 found dead) 35. Ring-billed Gull - 602 36. Herring Gull - 89 37. Mourning Dove - 20 38. Great Horned Owl - 1 39. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 40. Downy Woodpecker - 15 41. Hairy Woodepcker - 3 42. Northern Flicker - 1 43. Blue Jay - 16 44. American Crow - 36 45. Horned Lark - 11 46. Tree Swallow - 2 47. Black-capped Chickadee - 8 48. Tufted Titmouse - 7 49. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 50. Brown Creeper - 3 51. Eastern Bluebird - 1 52. American Robin - 19 53. European Starling - 343 54. American Tree Sparrow - 171 55. Fox Sparrow - 1 56. Song Sparrow - 67 57. White-throated Sparrow - 7 58. Dark-eyed Junco - 4 59. Northern Cardinal - 39 60. Red-winged Blackbird - 531 61. Eastern Meadowlark - 3 62. Rusty Blackbird - 18 63. Common Grackle - 190 64. House Finch - 6 65. American Goldfinch - 12 66. House Sparrow - 12 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]