APRIL 07, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-1:15pm; 2:30pm-6:30pm TEMP.: 48-60 COND.: Mostly cloudy early, very windy, turning mostly sunny & warm; wind SW/W at 5-30mph. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. GROUP I: 3 persons; GROUP II: 6 persons. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Mary Finley (morning only), Sue Johnson (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 2. Muskrat - 1 3. White-footed Mouse - 5 4. Meadow Vole - 1 5. Eastern Cottontail - 9 6. White-tailed Deer - 13 II. BIRDS: 91 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 323 2. Mute Swan - 6 3. Trumpeter Swan - 18 (yellow neckbands: "1A2", "3A8" & one too far away to read) 4. Wood Duck - 43 5. Gadwall - 449 6. American Wigeon - 51 7. American Black Duck - 13 8. Mallard - 112 9. Blue-winged Teal - 91 10. Northern Shoveler - 140 11. Northern Pintail - 24 12. Green-winged Teal - 289 13. Canvasback - 1 14. Redhead - 6 15. Ring-necked Duck - 30 16. Greater Scaup - 1 17. Lesser Scaup - 1,052 18. Bufflehead - 29 19. Common Goldeneye - 4 20. Hooded Merganser - 15 21. Common Merganser - 29 22. Ruddy Duck - 14 23. Pied-billed Grebe - 26 24. Double-crested Cormorant - 56 25. Great Blue Heron - 99 26. Great Egret - 48 27. Turkey Vulture - 69 28. Bald Eagle - 24 (4 adult, 20 immature) 29. Northern Harrier - 11 30. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3 31. Cooper's Hawk - 4 32. Red-tailed Hawk - 21 33. American Coot - 959 34. Sandhill Crane - 1 35. Killdeer - 39 36. Greater Yellowlegs - 15 37. Lesser Yellowlegs - 5 38. Pectoral Sandpiper - 212 39. Wilson's Snipe - 21 40. American Woodcock - 3 41. Bonaparte's Gull - 109 42. Ring-billed Gull - 204 43. Herring Gull - 42 44. Caspian Tern - 1 45. Mourning Dove - 34 46. Short-eared Owl - 1 47. Belted Kingfisher - 6 48. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (adult) 49. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 50. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5 51. Downy Woodpecker - 14 52. Hairy Woodpecker - 6 53. Northern Flicker - 50 54. American Kestrel - 3 55. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature male) 56. Eastern Phoebe - 25 57. Blue Jay - 9 58. American Crow - 3 59. Horned Lark - 4 60. Purple Martin - 1 61. Tree Swallow - 382 62. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 63. Black-capped Chickadee - 6 64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 65. Brown Creeper - 5 66. Carolina Wren - 2 67. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9 68. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 69. Eastern Bluebird - 6 70. Hermit Thrush - 16 71. American Robin - 199 72. European Starling - 114 73. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 74. Eastern Towhee - 4 75. American Tree Sparrow - 80 76. Chipping Sparrow - 12 77. Field Sparrow - 15 78. Savannah Sparrow - 24 79. Fox Sparrow - 64 80. Song Sparrow - 152 81. Swamp Sparrow - 1 82. Dark-eyed Junco - 91 83. Northern Cardinal - 19 84. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,153 85. Eastern Meadowlark - 5 86. Rusty Blackbird - 69 87. Common Grackle - 411 88. Brown-headed Cowbird - 33 89. House Finch - 8 90. American Goldfinch - 11 91. House Sparrow - 18 III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 2 2. Red-eared Turtle - 2 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 9 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 1 2. Northern Leopard Frog - (many calling) V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 3 2. Creek Chub - many VI. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Mourning Cloak - 1 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]