MARCH 06, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting.TIME: 8:00am-12:10pm; 1:30pm-5:40pm TEMP.: 32-44-34 COND.: Mostly cloudy; winds S at 5-10mph;no snow cover; all impoundments, ditches, canals & Lake Erie open.OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn (morning only), Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Beth Parker (morning only), Lisa Phelps (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. - Raccoon - 1 - Mink - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 - White-footed Mouse - 9 - Muskrat - 4 - White-tailed Deer - 2 (8-pt. buck,1 doe) II. BIRDS: 57 SPECIES. - Greater White-fronted Goose - 13 - Snow Goose - 28 (16 blue morph,12 white morph) - Canada Goose - 956 - Trumpeter Swan - 35 (2 with neckbands: green "74M" & yellow "1A2") - Tundra Swan - 914 - Wood Duck - 11 - Gadwall - 185 - American Wigeon - 11 - American Black Duck - 38 - Mallard - 226 - Northern Shoveler - 45 - Northern Pintail - 44 - Green-winged Teal - 36 - Canvasback - 2 - Redhead - 1,500 - Ring-necked Duck - 53 - Greater Scaup - 6 - Lesser Scaup - 4,026 - Bufflehead - 15 - Common Goldeneye - 21 - Hooded Merganser - 70 - Common Merganser - 536 - Great Blue Heron - 5 - Bald Eagle - 16 (8 adult,8 immature) - Northern Harrier - 4 - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 5 - Sandhill Crane - 20 - Killdeer - 2 - Ring-billed Gull - 580 - Herring Gull - 48 - Mourning Dove - 24 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 - Downy Woodpecker - 11 - Hairy Woodpecker - 1 - Blue Jay - 29 - American Crow - 25 (1 flock headed east) - Horned Lark - 11 - Black-capped Chickadee - 6 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 - Brown Creeper - 2 - Eastern Bluebird - 1 - American Robin - 10 - European Starling - 11 - Lapland Longspur - 27 - American Tree Sparrow - 244 - Song Sparrow - 8 - White-throated Sparrow - 1 - Northern Cardinal - 43 - Red-winged Blackbird - 639 - Rusty Blackbird - 2 - Common Grackle - 123 - House Finch - 3 - American Goldfinch - 7 - House Sparrow - 58 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]