DECEMBER 04, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am - 12:00pm; 1:35pm - 5:15pm TEMP.: 37~43~39COND.: Cloudy, light south winds; no snow cover - all water open. OBS.: (Morning only): Katie Clink, Dave Myles, Al & Betty Schlecht, Tony Szilagye (partial); (All day): Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus. I.MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. - Virginia Opossum - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 - Common Muskrat - 2 - White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe) II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES. - Canada Goose - 803 - Trumpeter Swan - 46 - Tundra Swan - 346 - Gadwall - 1,487 - American Wigeon - 5 - American Black Duck - 54 - Mallard - 2,590 - Northern Shoveler - 73 - Northern Pintail - 116 - Green-winged Teal - 5 - Bufflehead - 38 - Common Goldeneye - 4 - Hooded Merganser - 4 - Common Merganser - 18 - Ruddy Duck - 15 - Pied-billed Grebe - 5 - Mourning Dove - 119 - American Coot - 303 - Sandhill Crane - 41 - Killdeer - 9 - Marbled Godwit - 3 (Moist Soil Unit 3) - Dunlin - 4 (Moist Soil Unit 3) - Bonaparte's Gull - 68 - Ring-billed Gull - 257 - Herring Gull - 11 - Double-crested Cormorant - 4 - Great Blue Heron - 64 - Bald Eagle - 10 (4 adult,6 immature) - Northern Harrier - 7 - Red-tailed Hawk - 10 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 - Great Horned Owl - 1 - Long-eared Owl - 4 - Red-headed Woodpecker - 6 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 17 - Downy Woodpecker - 24 - Hairy Woodpecker - 3 - Northern Flicker - 4 - American Kestrel - 2 - Northern Shrike - 3 - Blue Jay - 44 - Horned Lark - 18 - Black-capped Chickadee - 13 - Tufted Titmouse - 2 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 18 - Brown Creeper - 3 - Winter Wren - 2 - Carolina Wren - 1 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 - European Starling - 50 - House Sparrow - 7 - American Goldfinch - 12 - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 - American Tree Sparrow - 141 - Fox Sparrow - 8 - Song Sparrow - 10 - Swamp Sparrow - 1 - Dark-eyed Junco - 38 - Northern Cardinal - 27 - Red-winged Blackbird - 11 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]