JANUARY 01, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:15am-11:30am; 1:20pm-5:00pm TEMP.: 44-34 COND.: Cloudy & windy with intermittent rain; driving horizontal rain from 11:00am-11:30am; winds 20-40mph S/SW; cloudy & windy with intermittent rain in the afternoon, temperature dropping; sleet from 4:30pm-5:00pm. GROUP I: 6 persons; GROUP II: 6 persons. OBS.: Tom & Paula Bartlett (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Chris Pierce (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. NOTE: for a complete list of Christmas Bird Count participants please contact H. Thomas Bartlett. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 11 2. White-footed Mouse - 12 3. Muskrat - 1 4. Eastern Cottontail - 1 5. White-tailed Deer - 8 II. BIRDS: 59 SPECIES. 1. Snow Goose - 15 (5 blue phase, 10 white phase) 2. Canada Goose - 2,294 3. Mute Swan - 11 4. Trumpeter Swan - 44 (yellow neckbands "3AO" & "9AO") 5. Tundra Swan - 1,674 6. Wood Duck - 2 7. Gadwall - 57 8. American Wigeon - 2 9. American Black Duck - 57 10. Mallard - 1,476 11. Northern Shoveler - 30 12. Northern Pintail - 3 13. Redhead - 8 14. Greater Scaup - 1 15. Bufflehead - 2 16. Common Goldeneye - 1 17. Hooded Merganser - 4 18. Common Merganser - 1,023 19. Red-breasted Merganser - 1 20. Ruddy Duck - 1 21. Double-crested Cormorant - 1 22. Great Blue Heron - 20 23. Bald Eagle - 9 (4 adult, 5 immature) 24. Northern Harrier - 2 25. Cooper's Hawk - 1 26. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 27. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature) 28. American Coot - 42 29. Bonaparte's Gull - 106 30. Ring-billed Gull - 1,491 31. Herring Gull - 86 32. Mourning Dove - 43 33. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 34. Great Horned Owl - 1 35. Belted Kingfisher - 1 36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 37. Downy Woodpecker - 14 38. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 39. Northern Flicker - 1 40. Blue Jay - 14 41. Black-capped Chickadee - 19 42. Tufted Titmouse - 7 43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 15 44. Brown Creeper - 13 45. Carolina Wren - 1 46. Winter Wren - 1 47. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 48. American Robin - 2 49. European Starling - 274 50. American Tree Sparrow - 148 51. Song Sparrow - 4 52. Swamp Sparrow - 1 53. White-throated Sparrow - 4 54. Dark-eyed Junco - 4 55. Northern Cardinal - 22 56. Red-winged Blackbird - 5 57. Common Grackle - 1 58. American Goldfinch - 29 59. House Sparrow - 59 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]