JANUARY 05, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning routes; afternoon routes cut short due to drifting snow. TIME: 8:00am-11:30am; 1:20pm-3:35pm TEMP.: 27-32-30 COND.: Almost constant snow, heavy at times; visibility poor; cloudy all day; no open water. OBS.: H. Thomas Bartlett (morning only), Katie Clink (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 2. Eastern Cottontail - 4 3. White-tailed Deer - 6 (spike buck,4-ptr. & 4 does) II. BIRDS: 44 SPECIES. 1. Tundra Swan - 2 2. Mallard - 1 3. Great Blue Heron - 15 4. Bald Eagle - 5 (3 adult,2 immature) 5. Northern Harrier - 2 6. Cooper's Hawk - 1 7. Red-tailed Hawk - 10 8. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 9. Ring-billed Gull - 3 10. Herring Gull - 92 11. Mourning Dove - 24 12. Eastern Screech-Owl - 4 13. Great Horned Owl - 4 14. Long-eared Owl - 2 15. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 28 17. Downy Woodpecker - 34 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 19. Northern Flicker - 9 20. American Kestrel - 1 21. Blue Jay - 40 22. Horned Lark - 23 23. Black-capped Chickadee - 5 24. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 25. White-breasted Nuthatch - 17 26. Carolina Wren - 4 27. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 28. Eastern Bluebird - 3 29. American Robin - 18 30. European Starling - 189 31. Lapland Longspur - 18 32. Snow Bunting - 2 33. American Tree Sparrow - 314 34. Savannah Sparrow - 1 35. Song Sparrow - 29 36. Swamp Sparrow - 11 37. White-throated Sparrow - 6 38. Dark-eyed Junco - 37 39. Northern Cardinal - 73 40. Red-winged Blackbird - 4 41. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 42. House Finch - 6 43. American Goldfinch - 41 44. House Sparrow - 32 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]