APRIL 06, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:40pm-7:00pm TEMP.: 30-55 COND.: Chilly early then sunny & breezy. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Tom Fishburn (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Doug Mins, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, John Shaffer & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 2. White-footed Mouse - 2 3. Muskrat - 10 4. White-tailed Deer - 4 II. BIRDS: 88 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 230 2. Trumpeter Swan - 47 (neckbands: "1A2 - Yellow", "3A8 - Yellow" & "74M - Green") 3. Tundra Swan - 4 4. Wood Duck - 26 5. Gadwall - 249 6. American Wigeon - 72 7. American Black Duck - 15 8. Mallard - 45 9. Blue-winged Teal - 46 10. Northern Shoveler - 47 11. Northern Pintail - 7 12. Green-winged Teal - 71 13. Canvasback - 38 14. Redhead - 407 15. Ring-necked Duck - 84 16. Greater Scaup - 42 17. Lesser Scaup - 960 18. Bufflehead - 62 19. Common Goldeneye - 17 20. Hooded Merganser - 42 21. Common Merganser - 97 22. Ruddy Duck - 8 23. Pied-billed Grebe - 35 24. Horned Grebe - 5 25. Double-crested Cormorant - 78 26. Great Blue Heron - 58 27. Great Egret - 54 28. Turkey Vulture - 5 29. Osprey - 1 30. Bald Eagle - 16 (6 adult & 10 immature) 31. Northern Harrier - 3 32. Cooper's Hawk - 1 33. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 34. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph) 35. American Coot - 444 36. Sandhill Crane - 8 37. Killdeer - 26 38. Greater Yellowlegs - 5 39. Lesser Yellowlegs - 14 40. Wilson's Snipe - 20 41. American Woodcock - 2 42. Bonaparte's Gull - 210 43. Ring-billed Gull - 65 44. Herring Gull - 90 45. Rock Pigeon - 2 46. Mourning Dove - 19 47. Great Horned Owl - 1 48. Short-eared Owl - 1 49. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 50. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 51. Downy Woodpecker - 10 52. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 53. Northern Flicker - 10 54. American Kestrel - 4 55. Eastern Phoebe - 11 56. Blue Jay - 16 57. American Crow - 1 58. Horned Lark - 8 59. Purple Martin - 3 60. Tree Swallow - 207 61. Black-capped Chickadee - 10 62. Tufted Titmouse - 1 63. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 64. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 10 65. American Robin - 67 66. Northern Mockingbird - 1 67. European Starling - 138 68. Lapland Longspur - 72 69. Eastern Towhee - 2 70. American Tree Sparrow - 28 71. Field Sparrow - 3 72. Vesper Sparrow - 1 73. Savannah Sparrow - 5 74. Fox Sparrow - 13 75. Song Sparrow - 47 76. Swamp Sparrow - 2 77. White-throated Sparrow - 1 78. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 79. Dark-eyed Junco - 17 80. Northern Cardinal - 35 81. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,298 82. Eastern Meadowlark - 11 83. Rusty Blackbird - 140 84. Common Grackle - 481 85. Brown-headed Cowbird - 7 86. House Finch - 3 87. American Goldfinch - 1 88. House Sparrow - 22 III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Leopard Frog - (several seen & heard) IV. FISHES: (not a sighting - but something of note) 1. There was a massive after-thaw die-off of Bowfin (Amia calva) along one of the backside impoundments. We estimated over 400 dead fish - many well over 2 feet in length. Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Oh. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]