DECEMBER 01, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:40pm-5:10pm TEMP.: 28-42 COND.: Mostly cloudy turning partly cloudy; wind W/SW & calm; most impoundments & canals frozen; one impoundment on backside had open water; Lake Erie had some ice in the morning but open by afternoon. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Ashley Decker (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 2. White-tailed Deer - 8 (10-pt.,6-pt.,6-pt,button-buck & 4 does) II. BIRDS: 74 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 1,142 2. Mute Swan - 4 (2 adult,2 immature) 3. Trumpeter Swan - 7 (2 neckbands - 1 green & 1 yellow - too far away to read) 4. Tundra Swan - 2,869 5. Gadwall - 33 6. American Wigeon - 2 7. American Black Duck - 46 8. Mallard - 1,382 9. Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male) 10. Northern Shoveler - 3 11. Northern Pintail - 1 12. Lesser Scaup - 24 13. Bufflehead - 2 14. Common Goldeneye - 116 15. Hooded Merganser - 14 16. Red-breasted Merganser - 78 17. Ruddy Duck - 11 18. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 19. Great Blue Heron - 32 20. Great Egret - 1 21. Bald Eagle - 11 (4 adult,7 immature) 22. Northern Harrier - 8 23. Cooper's Hawk - 3 24. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 25. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph) 26. American Coot - 3 27. Sandhill Crane - 12 28. Killdeer - 1 29. Least Sandpiper - 1 30. Dunlin - 5 31. Wilson's Snipe - 1 32. Bonaparte's Gull - 4 33. Ring-billed Gull - 182 34. Herring Gull - 110 35. Mourning Dove - 39 36. Great Horned Owl - 3 37. Short-eared Owl - 5 (1 in field west of Lindsey-Limestone Rd. & 4 in Stange Prairie) 38. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (immature - Butternut Woods) 39. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 40. Downy Woodpecker - 27 41. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 42. Northern Flicker - 13 43. American Kestrel - 1 44. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature - flying over Adam Grimm Prairie) 45. Blue Jay - 39 46. American Crow - 1 47. Horned Lark - 1 48. Tree Swallow - 1 49. Black-capped Chickadee - 11 50. Tufted Titmouse - 4 51. White-breasted Nuthatch - 15 52. Brown Creeper - 1 53. Carolina Wren - 2 54. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 55. Eastern Bluebird - 3 56. American Robin - 30 57. European Starling - 1,276 58. Lapland Longspur - 88 (fields along Krause Rd.) 59. American Tree Sparrow - 124 60. Fox Sparrow - 1 61. Song Sparrow - 11 62. Swamp Sparrow - 1 63. White-throated Sparrow - 1 64. White-crowned Sparrow - 2 65. Dark-eyed Junco - 7 66. Northern Cardinal - 23 67. Red-winged Blackbird - 243 68. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (Stange Prairie) 69. Rusty Blackbird - 1 70. Common Grackle - 10 71. Brown-headed Cowbird - 17 72. House Finch - 3 73. American Goldfinch - 20 74. House Sparrow - 49 III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Leopard Frog - 1 (hopping across the ice) Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]