DECEMBER 06, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-5:30pmTEMP.: 26-48 COND.: Frost-covered with dense morning fog until 9:30am, then turning mostly sunny. No snow cover;all canals, impoundments & Lake Erie open. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles(morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Tony Szilagye (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Muskrat - 2 - White-tailed Deer - 6 (9-pt buck,5 does) II. BIRDS: 58 SPECIES. - Snow Goose - 2 (white morph) - Canada Goose - 4,831 - Mute Swan - 1 - Trumpeter Swan - 35 (1 yellow neckband "3A8" & 1 yellow neckband un-readable) - Tundra Swan - 2,588 - Gadwall - 817 - American Wigeon - 751 - American Black Duck - 93 - Mallard - 1,529 (1 leucistic) - Northern Shoveler - 24 - Northern Pintail - 7 - Green-winged Teal - 20 - Redhead - 1 - Ring-necked Duck - 3 - Lesser Scaup - 2 - Common Goldeneye - 3 - Hooded Merganser - 71 - Red-breasted Merganser - 6 - Ruddy Duck - 1 - Pied-billed Grebe - 7 - Horned Grebe - 1 - Great Blue Heron - 40 - Bald Eagle - 9 (4 adult,5 immature) - Northern Harrier - 3 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 9 - American Coot - 23 - Sandhill Crane - 23 - Dunlin - 8 - Bonaparte's Gull - 12 - Ring-billed Gull - 473 - Herring Gull - 29 - Mourning Dove - 26 - Great Horned Owl - 2 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 - Downy Woodpecker - 10 - Hairy Woodpecker - 1 - Northern Flicker - 2 - American Kestrel - 2 - Northern Shrike - 1 - Blue Jay - 40 - Horned Lark - 3 - Black-capped Chickadee - 4 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 - Brown Creeper - 1 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 - American Robin - 70 - European Starling - 16 - Lapland Longspur - 39 - Snow Bunting - 3 - American Tree Sparrow - 125 - Song Sparrow - 6 - Swamp Sparrow - 1 - Dark-eyed Junco - 30 - Northern Cardinal - 31 - Red-winged Blackbird - 10 - American Goldfinch - 6 - House Sparrow - 57 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]