FEBRUARY 02, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Usual morning & afternoon routes except where turned away by drifting snow. TIME: 8:30am-12:15pm; 1:40pm-4:50pm TEMP.: 27-23 COND.: Cloudy all day, winds calm; about 4 inches of fresh snow; all canals & impoundments frozen; one sliver of open water on the backside near Metzger Marsh; Lake Erie completely frozen. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Opossum - 1 2. Raccoon - 4 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 4. White-footed Mouse - 7 5. Eastern Cottontail - 2 6. White-tailed Deer - 35 II. BIRDS: 44 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 55 2. Mute Swan - 5 3. Trumpeter Swan - 7 (one green neckband, one yellow neckband - unable to read) 4. Tundra Swan - 127 5. Gadwall - 5 6. Great Blue Heron - 2 7. Bald Eagle - 4 (3 adult,1 immature) 8. Northern Harrier - 1 9. Cooper's Hawk - 2 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 11. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph) 12. Ring-billed Gull - 10 13. Herring Gull - 79 14. Rock Pigeon - 1 15. Mourning Dove - 18 16. Great Horned Owl - 3 17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (adults) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 19. Downy Woodpecker - 13 20. Northern Flicker - 4 21. American Kestrel - 2 22. Blue Jay - 30 23. Horned Lark - 11 24. Black-capped Chickadee - 1 25. Tufted Titmouse - 1 26. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 27. Brown Creeper - 2 28. Carolina Wren - 1 29. American Robin - 30 30. European Starling - 40 31. Cedar Waxwing - 1 32. Snow Bunting - 82 33. American Tree Sparrow - 92 34. Fox Sparrow - 2 35. Song Sparrow - 1 36. Swamp Sparrow - 1 37. White-throated Sparrow - 6 38. Dark-eyed Junco - 13 39. Northern Cardinal - 34 40. Red-winged Blackbird - 72 41. Rusty Blackbird - 1 42. Brown-headed Cowbird - 32 43. American Goldfinch - 9 44. House Sparrow - 40 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]