APRIL 03, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-12:15pm; 2:00pm-6:35pm.TEMP.: 28-46-38 COND.: Mostly cloudy all day, wind W at 5-15mph; no snow cover; all canals, ditches, impoundments & Lake Eriewere ice-free. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Michael & Angela Dale (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Lisa Phelps, Ed Pierce, JimReyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Tony Szilagye (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. - Raccoon - 2 - Mink - 2 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 - Muskrat - 9 - White-tailed Deer - 8 II. BIRDS: 79 SPECIES. - Canada Goose - 489 - Mute Swan - 1 - Trumpeter Swan - 57 - Tundra Swan - 2 - Wood Duck - 61 - Gadwall - 367 - American Wigeon - 24 - American Black Duck - 15 - Mallard - 115 - Blue-winged Teal - 95 - Northern Shoveler - 303 - Green-winged Teal - 147 - Redhead - 19 - Ring-necked Duck - 140 - Greater Scaup - 6 - Lesser Scaup - 2,328 - Bufflehead - 88 - Hooded Merganser - 26 - Common Merganser - 7 - Red-breasted Merganser - 4 - Ruddy Duck - 16 - Pied-billed Grebe - 33 - Double-crested Cormorant - 111 - Great Blue Heron - 90 - Great Egret - 95 - Turkey Vulture - 5 - Bald Eagle - 13 (6 adult,7 immature) - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 - Cooper's Hawk - 2 - Red-tailed Hawk - 10 - American Coot - 806 - Sandhill Crane - 1 - Killdeer - 16 - Greater Yellowlegs - 10 - Lesser Yellowlegs - 10 - Wilson's Snipe - 1 - American Woodcock - 1 - Bonaparte's Gull - 21 - Ring-billed Gull - 47 - Herring Gull - 14 - Caspian Tern - 1 - Mourning Dove - 10 - Great Horned Owl - 4 (2 adult,2 downy young in nest) - Belted Kingfisher - 2 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 - Downy Woodpecker - 15 - Northern Flicker - 17 - American Kestrel - 1 - Eastern Phoebe - 5 - Blue Jay - 12 - American Crow - 4 - Horned Lark - 6 - Tree Swallow - 336 - Black-capped Chickadee - 3 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 - Brown Creeper - 4 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 14 - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 - American Robin - 102 - Brown Thrasher - 1 - European Starling - 45 - American Tree Sparrow - 71 - Chipping Sparrow - 6 - Field Sparrow - 2 - Savannah Sparrow - 1 - Fox Sparrow - 74 - Song Sparrow - 53 - Swamp Sparrow - 3 - Dark-eyed Junco - 31 - Northern Cardinal - 28 - Red-winged Blackbird - 352 - Eastern Meadowlark - 7 - Rusty Blackbird - 6 - Common Grackle - 146 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 11 - House Finch - 7 - House Sparrow - 12 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]