*JANUARY 07, 2018 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.* *ROUTES*: Usual morning and afternoon routes (east and west sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon.) *TIME*: 8:00am - 11:50am; 1:30pm - 4:10pm *TEMP.*: 0 ~ 19 ~ 17 *COND.*: Frigid, cloudy, and windy; winds W/SW at 5-15mph at start, quickly shifting to S for rest of day; all impoundments, canals, and ditches frozen; Lake Erie frozen over in the morning, winds opened up a large lead in the afternoon from Metzger Marsh to Magee Marsh in the afternoon. *OBS. EAST*: Katie Clink, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda. *OBS. WEST*: Jenny Bowman, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, George Novosel, Douglas W. Vogus. *OBS. AFTERNOON*: Bob Bartolotta, Matt Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Nora Kelly, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. *I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.* 1. Eastern Cottontail - 8 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 3. Coyote - 2 4. Common Raccoon - 2 5. White-tailed Deer - 29 (8-pt,8-pt,6-pt,4-pt,23 does,2 unknown) *II. BIRDS: 43 SPECIES, 1,108 TOTAL BIRDS.* 1. Canada Goose - 31 2. Mute Swan - 8 3. Tundra Swan - 1 4. Lesser Scaup - 36 5. Common Merganser - 57 6. Mourning Dove - 38 7. Ring-billed Gull - 68 8. Herring Gull - 7 9. Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 (flying west over Lake Erie near the Metzger Marsh pier - Third Record on January Census) 10. Great Blue Heron - 19 11. Bald Eagle - 6 (4 adult,2 immature) 12. Northern Harrier - 2 13. Cooper's Hawk - 1 14. Red-tailed Hawk - 10 15. Rough-legged Hawk - 2 (light morph along Krause Rd. and dark morph along Ottawa-Lucas Rd.) 16. Great Horned Owl - 1 17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 7 (6 in the North Woods and 1 in Butternut Woods) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 19. Downy Woodpecker - 14 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 21. American Kestrel - 1 22. Blue Jay - 40 23. Horned Lark - 25 24. Black-capped Chickadee - 7 25. Tufted Titmouse - 4 26. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 27. Brown Creeper - 3 28. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 29. Hermit Thrush - 1 30. American Robin - 7 31. European Starling - 22 32. House Sparrow - 24 33. House Finch - 4 34. American Goldfinch - 51 35. American Tree Sparrow - 93 36. Song Sparrow - 6 37. Swamp Sparrow - 2 38. White-throated Sparrow - 2 39. Dark-eyed Junco - 28 40. Northern Cardinal - 27 41. Red-winged Blackbird - 326 42. Common Grackle - 73 43. Brown-headed Cowbird - 27 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]