FEBRUARY 01, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: East and west sides with limited coverage; no afternoon coverage due to Winter Storm Linus.TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm TEMP.: 30-28 COND.: Windy with snow; visibility less than a 1/4-mile; windW/SW at 15-20mph; all impoundments frozen; Lake Erie was frozen except for one small stretch ofopen water. OBS.: Linda Benner, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Lisa Phelps, Al & Betty Schlecht(all morning only - refuge closed at 11:30am).I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 8 - White-footed Mouse - 3 - Eastern Cottontail - 7 - White-tailed Deer - 14 (does) II. BIRDS: 26 SPECIES. - Trumpeter or Tundra Swan - 3 - Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 - Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult, 2 immature) - Northern Harrier - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 2 - Rough-legged Hawk - 1 - Ring-billed Gull - 4 - Herring Gull - 5 - Mourning Dove - 32 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 - Downy Woodpecker - 10 - Hairy Woodpecker - 1 - Northern Flicker - 3 - Blue Jay - 30 - Black-capped Chickadee - 3 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 - Brown Creeper - 1 - American Tree Sparrow - 65 - White-throated Sparrow - 1 - Dark-eyed Junco - 3 - Northern Cardinal - 36 - Red-winged Blackbird - 15 - American Goldfinch - 2 - House Finch - 1 - House Sparrow - 1 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]