JANUARY 05, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-4:40pm TEMP.: 24-32-26 COND.: Chilly in the morning, warming, sunny most of the day; winds S/SW at 5-10mph. ROUTES: Usual morning & afternoon routes. OBS.: Tom & Paula Bartlett, Katie Clink, Mike Fitts (morning only), Leonard Fox (morning only), Fred Lewis (morning only), John & Jen Nelson, Eddie Paush (morning only), Chris Pierce (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus, Jack Volker (morning only). (I apologize to those I may have missed - for a complete list of Christmas Count volunteers please contact H. Thomas Bartlett. And a special thanks to the Ottawa N.W.R. staff & volunteers for the chili luncheon). I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Opossum - 1 2. Raccoon - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 4. White-footed Mouse - 3 5. Meadow Vole - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 17 II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 182 2. Mute Swan - 23 3. Trumpeter Swan - 11 4. Tundra Swan - 611 5. Gadwall - 94 6. American Black Duck - 9 7. Mallard - 19 8. Green-winged Teal - 4 9. Common Goldeneye - 111 10. Common Merganser - 3 11. Red-breasted Merganser - 8 12. Great Blue Heron - 89 13. Bald Eagle - 9 (3 adult, 6 immature) 14. Northern Harrier - 9 15. Cooper's Hawk - 3 16. Red-tailed Hawk - 10 17. American Coot - 213 18. Ring-billed Gull - 37 19. Herring Gull - 65 20. Mourning Dove - 80 21. Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 22. Great Horned Owl - 3 23. Long-eared Owl - 3 24. Short-eared Owl - 1 25. Rufous Hummingbird - 1 (BSBO feeder area) 26. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 (2 adult, 1 immature) 27. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 28. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 29. Downy Woodpecker - 23 30. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 31. Northern Flicker - 2 32. American Kestrel - 1 33. Northern Shrike - 1 34. Blue Jay - 18 35. American Crow - 2 36. Horned Lark - 19 37. Black-capped Chickadee - 20 38. Tufted Titmouse - 4 39. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 40. White-breasted Nuthatch - 11 41. Brown Creeper - 7 42. Carolina Wren - 3 43. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 44. American Robin - 81 45. European Starling - 45 46. American Tree Sparrow - 302 47. Song Sparrow - 10 48. Swamp Sparrow - 3 49. Dark-eyed Junco - 28 50. Northern Cardinal - 111 51. Red-winged Blackbird - 2 52. Eastern Meadowlark - 3 (Adam Grimm Prairie) 53. Rusty Blackbird - 13 54. Common Grackle - 1 55. Brown-headed Cowbird - 33 56. House Finch - 15 57. Common Redpoll - 3 58. Pine Siskin - 1 59. American Goldfinch - 30 60. House Sparrow - 58 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]