DECEMBER 07, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:20pm; 1:40pm-5:20pmTEMP.: 31-38-36 COND.: Mostly cloudy & chilly; no snow cover; open water except for some shallower impoundments/canalsthat had skim-ice on them; wind N-NE at 10mph OBS.: Katie Clink, Sue Johnson, Donna Kuhn (morning only), Dave & Kim Myles(morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus, Mark Wenning (morning only).I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. - Raccoon - 1 - Mink - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 16 - White-footed Mouse - 5 - Meadow Vole - 1 - Muskrat - 2 - White-tailed Deer - 17 II. BIRDS: 52 SPECIES. - Snow Goose - 2 (white morph) - Canada Goose - 790 - Trumpeter Swan - 15 - Tundra Swan - 1,772 - American Black Duck - 113 - Mallard - 1,852 - Northern Shoveler - 1 - Northern Pintail - 10 - Greater Scaup - 3 - Common Goldeneye - 4 - Hooded Merganser - 3 - Common Merganser - 226 - Red-breasted Merganser - 28 - Horned Grebe - 1 - Great Blue Heron - 11 - Bald Eagle - 7 (6 adult,1 immature) - Northern Harrier - 7 - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 - Cooper's Hawk - 2 - Red-tailed Hawk - 8 - Sandhill Crane - 10 - Wilson's Snipe - 1 - Bonaparte's Gull - 94 - Ring-billed Gull - 353 - Herring Gull - 19 - Mourning Dove - 47 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (red morph) - Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (juvenile) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 17 - Downy Woodpecker - 28 - Northern Flicker - 3 - American Kestrel - 2 - Northern Shrike - 1 - Blue Jay - 58 - Tree Swallow - 1 - Black-capped Chickadee - 18 - Tufted Titmouse - 5 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 22 - Brown Creeper - 4 - European Starling - 43 - Lapland Longspur - 79 - Snow Bunting - 3 - American Tree Sparrow - 78 - Song Sparrow - 4 - Swamp Sparrow - 1 - Dark-eyed Junco - 30 - Northern Cardinal - 28 - Red-winged Blackbird - 186 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 - Unidentified Blackbird Species - 1 flock of about 700 - House Finch - 26 - American Goldfinch - 30 - House Sparrow - 78 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]