DEC. 02, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-1:00pm; 2:50pm-5:15pm TEMP.: 52-55 COND.: Cloudy & overcast all day with intermittent light rain/sprinkles; wind SW at 5-15mph. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Doreen Linzell (B.S.B.O.), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 3. White-footed Mouse - 8 4. Meadow Vole - 1 5. Muskrat - 1 6. Eastern Cottontail - 2 7. White-tailed Deer - 8 II. BIRDS: 65 SPECIES. 1. Greater White-fronted Goose - 2 2. Canada Goose - 987 3. Mute Swan - 6 4. Trumpeter Swan - 12 5. Tundra Swan - 1,147 6. Wood Duck - 4 7. Gadwall - 353 8. American Wigeon - 3 9. American Black Duck - 52 10. Mallard - 1,899 11. Northern Shoveler - 41 12. Northern Pintail - 2 13. Green-winged Teal - 2 14. Lesser Scaup - 2 15. Bufflehead - 4 16. Hooded Merganser - 5 17. Common Merganser - 2 18. Ruddy Duck - 14 19. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 20. Great Blue Heron - 91 21. Bald Eagle - 9 (3 adult,6 immature) 22. Northern Harrier - 7 23. Cooper's Hawk - 1 24. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 25. American Kestrel - 3 26. American Coot - 191 27. Dunlin - 43 28. Ring-billed Gull - 962 29. Herring Gull - 59 30. Mourning Dove - 58 31. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray phase) 32. Great Horned Owl - 3 33. Long-eared Owl - 3 34. Short-eared Owl - 3 35. Rufous Hummingbird - 1 (hatch-year female at B.S.B.O. feeder) 36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 37. Downy Woodpecker - 15 38. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 39. Northern Flicker - 3 40. Blue Jay - 27 41. Horned Lark - 3 42. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 43. Tufted Titmouse - 3 44. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 45. Brown Creeper - 1 46. Carolina Wren - 4 47. Winter Wren - 1 48. American Robin - 14 49. European Starling - 8 50. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (m) 51. American Tree Sparrow - 146 52. Fox Sparrow - 3 53. Song Sparrow - 2 54. Swamp Sparrow - 3 55. White-throated Sparrow - 1 56. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 57. Snow Bunting - 24 58. Northern Cardinal - 23 59. Red-winged Blackbird - 28 60. Rusty Blackbird - 1 61. Common Grackle - 3 62. House Finch - 2 63. Pine Siskin - 1 (D. Linzell at B.S.B.O. feeders) 64. American Goldfinch - 16 65. House Sparrow - 100 III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Leopard Frog - 13 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]