APRIL 05, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 2:00pm-7:20pmTEMP.: 41-63-59 COND.: Mostly cloudy turning partly sunny; wind W at 5-20mph, gusting to 25mph by afternoon.OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Heidi Hughes (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) &Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. - Woodchuck - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Muskrat - 12 - Eastern Cottontail - 1 II. BIRDS: 94 SPECIES. - Canada Goose - 284 - Trumpeter Swan - 12 (neckbands: yellow "3A8" & "1A2"; green "74M") - Tundra Swan - 44 - Wood Duck - 83 - Gadwall - 520 - American Wigeon - 7 - American Black Duck - 32 - Mallard - 489 - Blue-winged Teal - 21 - Northern Shoveler - 65 - Northern Pintail - 20 - Green-winged Teal - 217 - Canvasback - 2 - Redhead - 320 - Ring-necked Duck - 126 - Greater Scaup - 21 - Lesser Scaup - 4,060 - Bufflehead - 79 - Common Goldeneye - 1 - Hooded Merganser - 44 - Common Merganser - 121 - Red-breasted Merganser - 3 - Ruddy Duck - 38 - Pied-billed Grebe - 10 - Horned Grebe - 1 - Double-crested Cormorant - 8 - Great Blue Heron - 19 - Great Egret - 59 - Turkey Vulture - 38 - Bald Eagle - 21 (9 adult,12 immature - 9 nests on refuge: 6 active, 2 unknown, 1 taken over by Great Horned Owl) - Northern Harrier - 4 - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 5 - Red-tailed Hawk - 12 - Rough-legged Hawk - 2 (light phase) - Golden Eagle - 1 (immature) - American Coot - 292 - Sandhill Crane - 5 - KIlldeer - 30 - Greater Yellowlegs - 14 - Lesser Yellowlegs - 5 - Dunlin - 35 - American Woodcock - 3 - Bonaparte's Gull - 136 - Ring-billed Gull - 168 - Herring Gull - 33 - Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - Forster's Tern - 1 - Rock Pigeon - 3 - Mourning Dove - 29 - Great Horned Owl - 5 - Belted Kingfisher - 1 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 - Downy Woodpecker - 10 - Northern Flicker - 18 - American Kestrel - 3 - Eastern Phoebe - 5 - Blue-headed Vireo - 1 - Blue Jay - 16 - American Crow - 16 - Horned Lark - 36 - Tree Swallow - 95 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4 - Barn Swallow - 1 - Black-capped Chickadee - 14 - Tufted Titmouse - 3 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 - Brown Creeper - 2 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 15 - Eastern Bluebird - 1 - Hermit Thrush - 4 - American Robin - 279 - Brown Thrasher - 1 - European Starling - 108 - Lapland Longspur - 48 - American Tree Sparrow - 25 - Chipping Sparrow - 2 - Field Sparrow - 5 - Vesper Sparrow - 2 - Savannah Sparrow - 3 - Fox Sparrow - 6 - Song Sparrow - 48 - Swamp Sparrow - 2 - White-throated Sparrow - 5 - Dark-eyed Junco - 14 - Northern Cardinal - 28 - Red-winged Blackbird - 1,113 - Eastern Meadowlark - 1 - Rusty Blackbird - 77 - Common Grackle - 157 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 55 - House Finch - 12 - American Goldfinch - 2 - House Sparrow - 20 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. - Northern Water Snake - 1 - Eastern Garter Snake - 1 BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES. - Mourning Cloak - 2 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]