----- Forwarded Message ----- From: DUG <[log in to unmask]> To: ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: DUG <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Monday, March 4, 2013 8:26 AM Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census MARCH 03, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:45pm-5:45pm TEMP.: 18-30 COND.: Cloudy & cold early, NW wind at 5-15mph with light flurries; mostly sunny & bright in the afternoon. Some impoundments open, some frozen; Lake Erie frozen with a few small open leads. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Earl & Alyn Harrison (morning only), Donna Kuhn (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 2 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 3. Meadow Vole - 14 4. Muskrat - 1 5. Eastern Cottontail - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 7 II. BIRDS: 58 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 866 2. Mute Swan - 6 3. Trumpeter Swan - 21 (yellow band: "3A8"; yellow band: not able to read; green band: not able to read) 4. Tundra Swan - 680 5. Gadwall - 34 6. American Wigeon - 6 7. American Black Duck - 105 8. Mallard - 392 9. Northern Pintail - 18 10. Green-winged Teal - 5 11. Redhead - 210 12. Ring-necked Duck - 6 13. Lesser Scaup - 14 14. Common Goldeneye - 4 15. Hooded Merganser - 5 16. Common Merganser - 182 17. Great Blue Heron - 39 18. Bald Eagle - 8 (5 adult, 3 immature) 19. Northern Harrier - 6 20. Cooper's Hawk - 1 21. Red-tailed Hawk - 11 22. American Coot - 2 23. Sandhill Crane - 2 24. Killdeer - 6 25. Ring-billed Gull - 14 26. Herring Gull - 4 27. Mourning Dove - 7 28. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) 29. Great Horned Owl - 1 30. Belted Kingfisher - 1 31. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (adult) 32. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 33. Downy Woodpecker - 13 34. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 35. Northern Flicker - 1 36. American Kestrel - 4 37. Merlin - 1 38. Blue Jay - 18 39. American Crow - 4 40. Horned Lark - 14 41. Black-capped Chickadee - 8 42. Tufted Titmouse - 1 43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 44. Carolina Wren - 2 45. American Robin - 37 46. European Starling - 163 47. American Tree Sparrow - 366 48. Song Sparrow - 2 49. Swamp Sparrow - 2 50. Dark-eyed Junco - 2 51. Northern Cardinal - 76 52. Red-winged Blackbird - 508 53. Rusty Blackbird - 1 54. Common Grackle - 7 55. Brown-headed Cowbird - 248 56. House Finch - 12 57. American Goldfinch - 57 58. House Sparrow - 89 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]