MARCH 04, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:50pm; 2:00pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 30-40 COND.: Cloudy with occasional flurries until 11:00am; mostly sunny until lunch; winds W at 10-15mph; cloudy with occasional snow squalls & breaks of clouds/sun in the afternoon; no snow cover; all water open. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - except where closed for eagle nesting. GROUP I: 5 persons; GROUP II: 5 persons. OBS.: Jenny Bowman, Katie Clink (morning only), Ethan Kistler, Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Kristi Rowland, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Mink - 2 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 4. White-footed Mouse - 5 5. Meadow Vole - 6 6. Muskrat - 2 7. Eastern Cottontail - 1 8. White-tailed Deer - 2 II. BIRDS: 62 SPECIES. X. Greater White-fronted Goose - 3 (entrance road to Metzger Marsh W.A. off of Rt. 2, but not on refuge property) X. Snow Goose - 13 (7 blue,6 white - entrance road to Metzger Marsh W.A. off of Rt. 2, but not on refuge property) 1. Canada Goose - 748 2. Mute Swan - 6 3. Trumpeter Swan - 14 (neckbands: "74M"-green, "1A2"-yellow & "3A0"-yellow) 4. Tundra Swan - 1,221 5. Wood Duck - 23 6. Gadwall - 363 7. American Wigeon - 57 8. American Black Duck - 131 9. Mallard - 1,188 10. Northern Shoveler - 30 11. Northern Pintail - 57 12. Green-winged Teal - 9 13. Canvasback - 3 14. Redhead - 272 15. Ring-necked Duck - 86 16. Lesser Scaup - 140 17. Bufflehead - 7 18. Hooded Merganser - 23 19. Common Merganser - 246 20. Ruddy Duck - 1 21. Pied-billed Grebe - 2 22. Great Blue Heron - 20 23. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 immature) 24. Northern Harrier - 11 (7m,4f - all standing in one field along Krause Rd. towards dusk) 25. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 26. Red-tailed Hawk - 11 27. American Kestrel - 2 28. American Coot - 626 29. Sandhill Crane - 11 30. Killdeer - 7 31. Bonaparte's Gull - 5 32. Ring-billed Gull - 816 33. Herring Gull - 61 34. Mourning Dove - 16 35. Great Horned Owl - 1 36. Long-eared Owl - 1 37. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 38. Downy Woodpecker - 26 39. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 40. Northern Flicker - 7 41. Blue Jay - 11 42. American Crow - 3 43. Horned Lark - 12 44. Black-capped Chickadee - 13 45. Tufted Titmouse - 4 46. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 47. Brown Creeper - 3 48. Carolina Wren - 2 49. Winter Wren - 1 50. American Robin - 20 51. European Starling - 99 52. American Tree Sparrow - 326 53. Song Sparrow - 47 54. Dark-eyed Junco - 5 55. Northern Cardinal - 105 56. Red-winged Blackbird - 719 57. Rusty Blackbird - 26 58. Common Grackle - 165 59. Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 60. House Finch - 4 61. American Goldfinch - 49 62. House Sparrow - 24 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]