DEC. 04, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-11:30am; 1:00pm-4:30pm TEMP.: 43-49 COND.: Light rain throughout the morning; steady light rain throughout the afternoon; winds SW at 10-15mph. GROUP I: 2 persons; GROUP II: 5 persons. OBS.: Donna Kuhn, Craig & Sharon Moore, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only). I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 2. White-footed Mouse - 5 3. White-tailed Deer - 4 II. BIRDS: 48 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 416 2. Mute Swan - 5 3. Trumpeter Swan - 41 (yellow neckband: 3A8) 4. Tundra Swan - 1,113 5. Wood Duck - 11 6. Gadwall - 1,264 7. American Black Duck - 42 8. Mallard - 2,510 9. Northern Shoveler - 97 10. Northern Pintail - 5 11. Green-winged Teal - 102 12. Bufflehead - 9 13. Hooded Merganser - 4 14. Common Merganser - 12 15. Ruddy Duck - 8 16. Pied-billed Grebe - 14 17. Great Blue Heron - 16 18. Bald Eagle - 10 (4 adult,6 immature) 19. Northern Harrier - 2 20. Cooper's Hawk - 1 21. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 22. American Kestrel - 1 23. American Coot - 72 24. Sandhill Crane - 3 25. Bonaparte's Gull - 17 26. Ring-billed Gull - 567 27. Herring Gull - 13 28. Great Black-backed Gull - 1 29. Mourning Dove - 57 30. Belted Kingfisher - 1 31. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 32. Downy Woodpecker - 7 33. Northern Flicker - 1 34. Blue Jay - 5 35. Horned Lark - 15 36. Black-capped Chickadee - 7 37. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 38. Brown Creeper - 1 39. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 40. American Robin - 2 41. European Starling - 7 42. American Tree Sparrow - 90 43. Song Sparrow - 3 44. Swamp Sparrow - 1 45. Dark-eyed Junco - 7 46. Northern Cardinal - 17 47. American Goldfinch - 20 48. House Sparrow - 10 Douglas W. Vogus (for Ed Pierce) - 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]