Before I start this month's list, I'd like to add one more species to last month's totals. We ended up with 63 species - not 62, as I forgot to list 2 Eastern Meadowlark seen during the morning count. APRIL 01, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:40pm; 1:30pm-6:30pm TEMP.: 39-58 COND.: Mostly cloudy, overcast; winds NW during the morning then switching to NE in the afternoon at 5-10mph. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. GROUP I: 5 persons; GROUP II: 7 persons. OBS.: Jenny Bowman, Katie Clink (morning only), Craig Griffin (afternoon only), Deborah Kibbel (afternoon only), Donna Kuhn, Brian & Tyler McClain (morning only), Marie Morgan (afternoon only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Kristi Rowland, Evelyn Schlachter (afternoon only), Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Claire Staples (afternoon only), Bert Szabo, Douglas W. Vogus, Jean Vrohiotes (afternoon only). I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 2. White-footed Mouse - 2 3. Meadow Vole - 3 4. Muskrat - 1 5. Eastern Cottontail - 2 6. White-tailed Deer - 14 II. BIRDS: 85 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 177 2. Mute Swan - 10 3. Trumpeter Swan - 32 (neckbands: "3AO" - yellow & "74M" - green) 4. Tundra Swan - 2 5. Wood Duck - 45 6. Gadwall - 298 7. American Wigeon - 54 8. American Black Duck - 34 9. Mallard - 135 10. Blue-winged Teal - 66 11. Northern Shoveler - 120 12. Northern Pintail - 58 13. Green-winged Teal - 383 14. Redhead - 5 15. Ring-necked Duck - 81 16. Lesser Scaup - 5,000+ 17. Bufflehead - 15 18. Hooded Merganser - 63 19. Common Merganser - 3 20. Ruddy Duck - 2,000+ 21. Pied-billed Grebe - 57 22. Horned Grebe - 1 23. Double-crested Cormorant - 34 24. Great Blue Heron - 66 25. Great Egret - 27 26. Turkey Vulture - 81 27. Bald Eagle - 11 (4 adult,7 immature) 28. Northern Harrier - 7 29. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 10 30. Cooper's Hawk - 2 31. Red-tailed Hawk - 11 (1 on nest) 32. American Kestrel - 3 33. American Coot - 546 34. Sandhill Crane - 3 35. Killdeer - 29 36. Greater Yellowlegs - 17 37. Lesser Yellowlegs - 10 38. Pectoral Sandpiper - 60 39. Wilson's Snipe - 27 40. American Woodcock - 1 41. Bonaparte's Gull - 43 42. Ring-billed Gull - 32 43. Herring Gull - 19 44. Mourning Dove - 17 45. Great Horned Owl - 5 (1 adult at nest with 2 young) 46. Short-eared Owl - 2 47. Belted Kingfisher - 2 48. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 49. Downy Woodpecker - 19 50. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 51. Northern Flicker - 26 52. Eastern Phoebe - 7 53. Blue Jay - 7 54. American Crow - 7 55. Horned Lark - 11 56. Purple Martin - 1 57. Tree Swallow - 202 58. Black-capped Chickadee - 5 59. Tufted Titmouse - 4 60. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 61. Brown Creeper - 4 62. Carolina Wren - 1 63. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6 64. Eastern Bluebird - 2 65. American Robin - 101 66. Brown Thrasher - 1 67. European Starling - 84 68. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 9 69. American Tree Sparrow - 2 70. Chipping Sparrow - 2 71. Field Sparrow - 27 72. Savannah Sparrow - 2 73. Fox Sparrow - 14 74. Song Sparrow - 54 75. Swamp Sparrow - 11 76. Dark-eyed Junco - 10 77. Northern Cardinal - 44 78. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,232 79. Eastern Meadowlark - 7 80. Rusty Blackbird - 1,699 81. Common Grackle - 156 82. Brown-headed Cowbird - 51 83. House Finch - 9 84. American Goldfinch - 13 85. House Sparrow - 13 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (heard) 2. Northern Leopard Frog - 1 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - many VI. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1 2. Red Admiral - 6 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]