FEBRUARY 05, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: Usual morning and afternoon routes (east & west sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon). TIME: 8:00am - 12:40pm; 1 :55pm - 5:50pm TEMP.: 24 ~ 35 ~ 32 COND.: Cold early turning mostly sunny; wind W at 5-10mph; no snow cover; most impoundments frozen - some up to 30% open; all canals & ditches frozen; Crane Creek frozen; Crane Creek Estuary had some open water; Lake Erie ice-free. OBS. EAST: Katie Clink, Ed Pierce. OBS. WEST: Donna Kuhn, James Muller, Dave & Kim Myles, Jacob Raber, Jim Reyda, Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob Bartolatta, Claire Johnson, Jim Koppen, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES. 1. Virginia Opossum - 1 2. Eastern Cottontail - 5 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 4. White-footed Mouse - 1 5. Meadow Vole - 7 6. Common Muskrat - 2 7. Coyote - 1 8. White-tailed Deer - 5 II. BIRDS: 51 SPECIES, 8,802 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Snow Goose - 2 (blue morph) 2. Canada Goose - 3,243 3. Mute Swan - 4 4. Trumpeter Swan - 68 (neckbands: "A8O - yellow", "1CO" - yellow, & "unknown - yellow") 5. Tundra Swan - 1,574 6. Gadwall - 11 7. American Wigeon - 3 8. American Black Duck - 18 9. Mallard - 65 10. Bufflehead - 1 (m) 11. Common Merganser - 273 (very few females) 12. Red-breasted Merganser - 12 13. Rock Pigeon - 1 14. Mourning Dove - 39 15. Sandhill Crane - 12 16. Killdeer - 1 17. Ring-billed Gull - 167 18. Herring Gull - 26 19. Great Blue Heron - 39 20. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (immature) 21. Bald Eagle - 20 (8 adult,12 immature) 22. Northern Harrier - 5 23. Cooper's Hawk - 1 24. Red-tailed Hawk - 7 25. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph) 26. Great Horned Owl - 4 27. Northern Saw-whet Owl - 2 (in the pines at the Sportsmen's Migratory Bird Center at Magee Marsh/eastern border of Ottawa NWR) 28. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 29. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 30. Downy Woodpecker - 9 31. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 32. Northern Flicker - 1 33. American Kestrel - 1 34. Northern Shrike - 1 35. Blue Jay - 36 36. Horned Lark - 118 37. Black-capped Chickadee - 8 38. Tufted Titmouse - 4 39. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 40. Brown Creeper - 1 41. American Robin - 11 42. European Starling - 364 43. House Sparrow - 55 44. American Goldfinch - 71 45. American Tree Sparrow - 147 46. Song Sparrow - 1 47. Dark-eyed Junco - 14 48. Northern Cardinal - 14 49. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,934 50. Common Grackle - 125 51. Brown-headed Cowbird - 159 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]