FEBRUARY 07, 2016 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-6:30pmTEMP.: 26-52-47 COND.: Chilly early, turning mostly sunny through the morning; clouding up after 2:00pm;no snow cover; Lake Erie open, most canals & impoundments open.OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda,Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. - Raccoon - 3 - Mink - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 - White-footed Mouse - 9 - Muskrat - 3 - Eastern Cottontail - 3 - White-tailed Deer - 5 II. BIRDS: 53 SPECIES. - Snow Goose - 15 (7 white morph,8 blue morph) - Ross's Goose - 1 - Cackling Goose - 4 - Canada Goose - 2,852 - Mute Swan - 2 - Trumpeter Swan - 44 (green band "74M"; yellow band "1A2"; yellow band (too far away to read) - Tundra Swan - 4,000+ - Gadwall - 6 - American Black Duck - 16 - Mallard - 93 - Ring-necked Duck - 3 - Lesser Scaup - 3 - Common Goldeneye - 4 - Hooded Merganser - 2 - Common Merganser - 172 - Great Blue Heron - 18 - Bald Eagle - 13 (6 adult,7 immature) - Northern Harrier - 9 - Red-tailed Hawk - 7 - Sandhill Crane - 7 - Ring-billed Gull - 163 - Herring Gull - 37 - Rock Pigeon - 1 - Mourning Dove - 55 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 - Great Horned Owl - 1 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 - Downy Woodpecker - 18 - Hairy Woodpecker - 1 - Northern Flicker - 1 - American Kestrel - 4 - Blue Jay - 27 - American Crow - 6 - Horned Lark - 36 - Black-capped Chickadee - 22 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 12 - Brown Creeper - 2 - Eastern Bluebird - 2 - American Robin - 26 - European Starling - 70 - Lapland Longspur - 102 - American Tree Sparrow - 148 - Savannah Sparrow - 1 - Song Sparrow - 6 - Dark-eyed Junco - 5 - Northern Cardinal - 21 - Red-winged Blackbird - 124 - Rusty Blackbird - 20 - Common Grackle - 43 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 26 - House Finch - 2 - American Goldfinch - 43 - House Sparrow - 7 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. - Goldfish - 1 (promptly devoured by a Herring Gull) 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]