MARCH 05, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: Usual morning and afternoon routes (east and west sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon), except where closed due to eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am - 12:10pm; 1:40pm - 6:00pm TEMP.: 25 ~ 46 COND.: Cold early, winds E/NE at 5-15mph; turning mostly sunny and warmer. Most impoundments about two-thirds open; Lake Erie ice-free. OBS. EAST: Steve Borgis, Bill Ohlsen, Jim Reyda. OBS. WEST: Katie Clink, Brittany Daniels, Linda Katz, Jennifer Keuhn, Jim Koppen, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Sharon Newell, Ed Pierce, Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob Bartolatta, Katie Clink, Claire Johnson, Jennifer Keuhn, Jim Koppen, Donna Kuhn, Dave Myles, Sharon Newell, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 5 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 3. Common Muskrat - 2 4. Mink - 1 5. White-tailed Deer - 4 II. BIRDS: 72 SPECIES, 1 EXOTIC/ESCAPE, 8,952 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Greater White-fronted Goose - 20 2. Snow Goose - 1 (white morph) 3. Canada Goose - 876 4. Mute Swan - 1 5. Trumpeter Swan - 104 (neckband "3A8 - green) 6. Tundra Swan - 1,346 7. Wood Duck - 2 8. Gadwall - 321 9. American Wigeon - 67 10. American Black Duck - 68 11. Mallard - 1,405 12. Northern Shoveler - 77 13. Northern Pintail - 581 14. Green-winged Teal - 274 15. Redhead - 17 16. Ring-necked Duck - 356 17. Greater Scaup - 5 18. Lesser Scaup - 30 19. Bufflehead - 7 20. Common Goldeneye - 8 21. Hooded Merganser - 26 22. Common Merganser - 134 23. Red-breasted Merganser - 6 24. Ruddy Duck - 12 25. Pied-billed Grebe - 3 26. Rock Pigeon - 2 27. Mourning Dove - 17 28. American Coot - 16 29. Sandhill Crane - 36 30. Killdeer - 121 31. Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 (seen by Jim Koppen at the Boss Unit) 32. American Woodcock - 1 33. Ring-billed Gull - 359 34. Herring Gull - 27 35. Great Blue Heron - 26 36. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (immature) 37. Bald Eagle - 10 (6 adult,4 immature) 38. Northern Harrier - 13 39. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 40. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 41. Red-tailed Hawk - 22 42. Great Horned Owl - 4 (3 nests) 43. Long-eared Owl - 1 44. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 45. Downy Woodpecker - 14 46. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 47. Northern Flicker - 2 48. Northern Shrike - 1 49. Blue Jay - 33 50. American Crow - 15 51. Horned Lark - 14 52. Tree Swallow - 1 53. Black-capped Chickadee - 7 54. Tufted Titmouse - 4 55. Eastern Bluebird - 2 56. American Robin - 16 57. European Starling - 124 58. House Sparrow - 69 59. House Finch - 2 60. American Goldfinch - 6 61. Lapland Longspur - 12 (Adam Grimm Prairie) 62. American Tree Sparrow - 193 63. Savannah Sparrow - 1 (Stange Prairie) 64. Song Sparrow - 34 65. White-throated Sparrow - 2 66. Dark-eyed Junco - 59 67. Northern Cardinal - 45 68. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,703 69. Eastern Meadowlark - 3 (2 in Adam Grimm Prairie & 1 in Stange Prairie) 70. Rusty Blackbird - 16 71. Common Grackle - 101 72. Brown-headed Cowbird - 49 escape/exotic: Greylag Goose - 1 (in with a flock of 13 Canada Geese) 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]