APRIL 03, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning and afternoon routes except where closed due to eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-12:10pm; 1:30pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 31-39 COND.: Cold and cloudy; wind SE at 5-15mph. OBS.: Aaron Bartley, Katie Clink (morning only), Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Mink - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 4. Muskrat - 2 5. Eastern Cottontail - 2 6. White-tailed Deer - 29 II. BIRDS: 86 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 304 2. Mute Swan - 9 3. Trumpeter Swan - 22 (Yellow bands: "3A0", "3A8" & "9A0") 4. Tundra Swan - 14 5. Wood Duck - 96 6. Gadwall - 1,032 7. American Wigeon - 82 8. American Black Duck - 33 9. Mallard - 317 10. Blue-winged Teal - 47 11. Northern Shoveler - 135 12. Northern Pintail - 151 13. Green-winged Teal - 312 14. Canvasback - 9 15. Redhead - 32 16. Ring-necked Duck - 670 17. Lesser Scaup - 5,032 18. Bufflehead - 79 19. Hooded Merganser - 24 20. Common Merganser - 197 21. Red-breasted Merganser - 41 22. Ruddy Duck - 23 23. Common Loon - 1 24. Pied-billed Grebe - 10 25. Horned Grebe - 1 26. Double-crested Cormorant - 26 27. Least Bittern - 1 28. Great Blue Heron - 77 29. Great Egret - 19 30. Turkey Vulture - 9 31. Bald Eagle - 12 (6adult,6immature) 32. Northern Harrier - 5 33. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 34. Cooper's Hawk - 2 35. Red-tailed Hawk - 10 36. Rough-legged Hawk - 3 (1dark,2light) 37. American Kestrel - 2 38. American Coot - 732 39. Sandhill Crane - 6 40. Killdeer - 39 41. Greater Yellowlegs - 3 42. Lesser Yellowlegs - 11 43. Pectoral Sandpiper - 8 44. Wilson's Snipe - 76 45. American Woodcock - 1 46. Bonaparte's Gull - 681 47. Ring-billed Gull - 186 48. Herring Gull - 69 49. Great Black-backed Gull - 1 50. Mourning Dove - 26 51. Short-eared Owl - 3 52. Belted Kingfisher - 1 53. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 22 54. Downy Woodpecker - 33 55. Northern Flicker - 11 56. Eastern Phoebe - 11 57. Northern Shrike - 1 58. Blue Jay - 10 59. American Crow - 11 60. Horned Lark - 6 61. Tree Swallow - 64 62. Black-capped Chickadee - 3 63. Tufted Titmouse - 4 64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 65. Carolina Wren - 1 66. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 67. American Robin - 116 68. European Starling - 126 69. American Tree Sparrow - 212 70. Chipping Sparrow - 4 71. Field Sparrow - 10 72. Savannah Sparrow - 1 73. Fox Sparrow - 63 74. Song Sparrow - 128 75. Swamp Sparrow - 3 76. White-throated Sparrow - 11 77. Dark-eyed Junco - 9 78. Northern Cardinal - 56 79. Red-winged Blackbird - 454 80. Eastern Meadowlark - 5 81. Rusty Blackbird - 82 82. Common Grackle - 187 83. Brown-headed Cowbird - 39 84. House Finch - 10 85. American Goldfinch - 18 86. House Sparrow - 18 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]