NOVEMBER 06, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:50pm; 1:40pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 34-62 COND.: Chilly early, warming throughout, sunny & pleasant; wind SW at 10-15mph. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Coyote - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 4. Muskrat - 2 5. White-footed Mouse - 5 6. White-tailed Deer - 9 (2 bucks - 9-pt. & 6-pt., 7 does) II. BIRDS: 77 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 270 2. Mute Swan - 2 3. Trumpeter Swan - 25 4. Tundra Swan - 29 5. Wood Duck - 23 6. Gadwall - 358 7. American Wigeon - 71 8. American Black Duck - 6 9. Mallard - 713 10. Northern Shoveler - 13 11. Northern Pintail - 13 12. Green-winged Teal - 85 13. Redhead - 2 14. Bufflehead - 1 15. Hooded Merganser - 8 16. Ruddy Duck - 17 17. Pied-billed Grebe - 10 18. Double-crested Cormorant - 53 19. Great Blue Heron - 89 20. Great Egret - 48 21. Glossy Ibis - 4 (adults) 22. White Ibis - 1 (immature - seen by D. Kuhn, E. Pierce, J. Reyda & D. Vogus - documentation to be sent to O.B.R.C.) 23. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult, 2 immature) 24. Northern Harrier - 3 25. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 26. Cooper's Hawk - 3 27. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 28. Merlin - 1 (adult male with fresh kill) 29. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult male that caught a Dunlin) 30. American Coot - 369 31. Killdeer - 6 32. Greater Yellowlegs - 22 (1 eating a frog) 33. Hudsonian Godwit - 2 34. Unidentified Peep Species - 1 (Semipalmated or Least Sandpiper) 35. Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 36. Dunlin - 247 37. Long-billed Dowitcher - 47 38. Wilson's Snipe - 2 39. Bonaparte's Gull - 281 40. Ring-billed Gull - 270 41. Herring Gull - 6 42. Mourning Dove - 14 43. Great Horned Owl - 2 44. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 45. Downy Woodpecker - 15 46. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 47. Northern Flicker - 3 48. Northern Shrike - 1 49. Blue Jay - 6 50. American Crow - 3 51. Horned Lark - 3 52. Tree Swallow - 1 53. Black-capped Chickadee - 15 54. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 55. Winter Wren - 1 56. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 57. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 58. American Robin - 40 59. Northern Mockingbird - 1 60. European Starling - 240 61. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 62. American Tree Sparrow - 48 63. Field Sparrow - 1 64. Fox Sparrow - 9 65. Song Sparrow - 13 66. Swamp Sparrow - 3 67. White-throated Sparrow - 3 68. Dark-eyed Junco - 22 69. Snow Bunting - 1 70. Northern Cardinal - 14 71. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,517 72. Rusty Blackbird - 63 73. Common Grackle - 55 74. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 75. House Finch - 4 76. American Goldfinch - 9 77. House Sparrow - 6 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Garter Snake - 3 IV. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 1 V. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Clouded Sulphur - 4 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]