FEBRUARY 04, 2018 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: East and west sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon. TIME: 8:00am - 12:20pm; 1:45pm - 4:45pm TEMP.: 33 ~ 36 COND.: Gray and overcast with steady, wet snow from 8:00am to 11:00am; light flurries rest of day; wind W/SW at 5-10mph. Canals and ditches mostly frozen; some open leads of water on the east side in Pool 1; one small lead open in Metzger Marsh; Lake Erie open. OBS. EAST: Katie Clink, Ed Pierce. OBS. WEST: Dave & Kim Myles, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 7 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 3. Meadow Vole - 2 4. Common Muskrat - 1 5. Coyote - 2 6. Red Fox - 1 7. Common Raccoon - 2 8. White-tailed Deer - 8 II. BIRDS: 49 SPECIES, 1,930 INDIVIDUALS. 1. Canada Goose - 497 2. Trumpeter Swan - 67 (one with yellow neckband too far away to read) 3. Tundra Swan - 431 4. American Black Duck - 3 5. Mallard - 18 6. Lesser Scaup - 14 7. Hooded Merganser - 6 8. Common Merganser - 37 9. Red-breasted Merganser - 52 10. Mourning Dove - 18 11. Sandhill Crane - 1 12. Ring-billed Gull - 16 13. Herring Gull - 13 14. Great Blue Heron - 27 15. Bald Eagle - 24 (6 adult,18 immature) 16. Northern Harrier - 4 17. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 18. Red-tailed Hawk - 11 19. Rough-legged Hawk - 2 (1 dark morph,1 light morph) 20. Great Horned Owl - 5 21. Red-headed Woodpecker - 6 (3 adult,3 immature) 22. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13 23. Downy Woodpecker - 19 24. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 25. Northern Flicker - 2 26. American Kestrel - 4 27. Blue Jay - 21 28. Horned Lark - 1 29. Black-capped Chickadee - 17 30. Tufted Titmouse - 4 31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 32. Brown Creeper - 3 33. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 34. American Robin - 2 35. European Starling - 119 36. House Sparrow - 53 37. House Finch - 2 38. American Goldfinch - 66 39. Lapland Longspur - 14 40. American Tree Sparrow - 203 41. Song Sparrow - 7 42. Swamp Sparrow - 7 43. White-throated Sparrow - 3 44. Dark-eyed Junco - 26 45. Northern Cardinal - 52 46. Red-winged Blackbird - 3 47. Rusty Blackbird - 2 48. Common Grackle - 1 49. Brown-headed Cowbird - 19 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]