NOV. 04, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:40pm-5:30pm TEMP.: 37-43-38 COND.: Cloudy & overcast all day. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 2. Muskrat - 1 3. White-footed Mouse - 2 4. White-tailed Deer - 8 II. BIRDS: 78 SPECIES. 1. Snow Goose - 1 (white phase) 2. Canada Goose - 452 3. Mute Swan - 8 4. Trumpeter Swan - 47 (green neckband "74M", yellow neckband "1A2") 5. Tundra Swan - 60 6. Wood Duck - 16 7. Gadwall - 479 8. American Wigeon - 30 9. American Black Duck - 120 10. Mallard - 2,603 11. Northern Shoveler - 16 12. Northern Pintail - 42 13. Green-winged Teal - 90 14. Canvasback - 2 15. Ring-necked Duck - 22 16. Bufflehead - 5 17. Hooded Merganser - 15 18. Ruddy Duck - 7 19. Pied-billed Grebe - 41 20. Horned Grebe - 2 21. Double-crested Cormorant - 1 22. Great Blue Heron - 92 23. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 5 (immature) 24. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 immature) 25. Northern Harrier - 4 26. Cooper's Hawk - 1 27. Red-tailed Hawk - 9 28. American Kestrel - 1 29. American Coot - 1,498 30. Sandhill Crane - 2 31. Semipalmated Plover - 1 32. Killdeer - 17 33. Greater Yellowlegs - 5 34. Dunlin - 25 35. Wilson's Snipe - 6 36. Bonaparte's Gull - 110 37. Ring-billed Gull - 179 38. Herring Gull - 21 39. Mourning Dove - 16 40. Great Horned Owl - 5 41. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 42. Downy Woodpecker - 31 43. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 44. Northern Flicker - 6 45. Northern Shrike - 1 46. Blue Jay - 32 47. American Crow - 1 48. Horned Lark - 2 49. Tree Swallow - 2 50. Black-capped Chickadee - 24 51. White-breasted Nuthatch - 11 52. Brown Creeper - 1 53. Carolina Wren - 4 54. Winter Wren - 2 55. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 12 56. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 57. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 58. Hermit Thrush - 1 59. American Robin - 16 60. European Starling - 222 61. American Tree Sparrow - 47 62. Chipping Sparrow - 1 63. Fox Sparrow - 17 64. Song Sparrow - 6 65. Swamp Sparrow - 5 66. White-throated Sparrow - 6 67. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 68. Dark-eyed Junco - 8 69. Snow Bunting - 21 70. Northern Cardinal - 36 71. Red-winged Blackbird - 851 72. Rusty Blackbird - 184 73. Common Grackle - 43 74. Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 75. House Finch - 18 76. Pine Siskin - 4 77. American Goldfinch - 37 78. House Sparrow - 75 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]