JANUARY 01, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 7:30am - 12:00pm;1:50pm - 4:45pm TEMP.: 26~42 COND.: Chilly early, turning sunny with blue skies. No snow cover. Most ditches, canals & impoundments were ice-covered; MS5 had some open water; Crane Creek was ice-free as was Lake Erie. OBS. EAST: Eddie Pausch, Chris Pierce, Jim Reyda, and Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Tom & Paula Bartlett, Katie Clink, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Ed Pierce, and Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Virginia Opossum - 2 2. Eastern Cottontail - 2 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 7 4. White-footed Mouse - 11 5. Meadow Vole - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 3 (1 spike buck missing one antler,2 doe) II. BIRDS: 66 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 1,631 2. Mute Swan - 3 3. Trumpeter Swan - 31 4. Tundra Swan - 2,903 5. American Wigeon - 4 6. American Black Duck - 28 7. Mallard - 821 8. Northern Pintail - 5 9. Canvasback - 350 10. Redhead - 2 11. Greater Scaup - 2 12. Lesser Scaup - 2,417 13. Common Goldeneye - 68 14. Hooded Merganser - 3 15. Common Merganser - 27 16. Red-breasted Merganser - 21 17. Ruddy Duck - 1 18. Mourning Dove - 38 19. Sandhill Crane - 96 20. Ring-billed Gull - 4,366 21. Herring Gull - 247 22. Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 23. Great Black-backed Gull - 4 24. Great Blue Heron - 47 25. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 4 (immatures) 26. Bald Eagle - 22 (8 adult,14 immature) 27. Northern Harrier - 10 28. Cooper's Hawk - 1 29. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 30. Red-tailed Hawk - 18 31. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 32. Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 33. Great Horned Owl - 1 34. Long-eared Owl - 6 35. Short-eared Owl - 2 36. Red-headed Woodpecker - 7 37. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 23 38. Downy Woodpecker - 41 39. Hairy Woodpecker - 8 40. Northern Flicker - 5 41. American Kestrel - 1 42. Blue Jay - 103 43. American Crow - 1 44. Horned Lark - 4 45. Black-capped Chickadee - 17 46. Tufted Titmouse - 11 47. White-breasted Nuthatch - 20 48. Brown Creeper - 6 49. Winter Wren - 1 50. Carolina Wren - 2 51. American Robin - 37 52. European Starling - 76 53. House Sparrow - 40 54. House Finch - 1 55. American Goldfinch - 79 56. Lapland Longspur - 1 57. American Tree Sparrow - 339 58. Song Sparrow - 22 59. Swamp Sparrow - 13 60. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 61. Dark-eyed Junco - 47 62. Northern Cardinal - 61 63. Red-winged Blackbird - 78 64. Eastern Meadowlark - 3 65. Common Grackle - 1 66. Brown-headed Cowbird - 56 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]