*DECEMBER 03, 2017* - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. *ROUTES*: East and West sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon. *TIME*: 8:00am - 12:00pm; 2:00pm - 5:10pm. *TEMP.*: 32 ~ 51 ~ 48 *COND.*: Chilly early, turning pleasant and sunny; no snow cover; all water open except for some skim-ice in the ditches and canals. *OBS. EAST*: Katie Clink, Ed Pierce. *OBS. WEST*: Bob & Sara Crist, Jennifer Keuhn, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus. *OBS. AFTERNOON*: Bob Bartolotta, Bob & Sara Crist, Jennifer Keuhn, Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus, Sheryl Young. *I. MAMMALS*: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 10 3. Common Muskrat - 4 4. Common Raccoon - 1 *II. BIRDS*: 71 SPECIES, 6,267 INDIVIDUALS. 1. Canada Goose - 526 2. Trumpeter Swan - 31 3. Tundra Swan - 3,099 4. Wood Duck - 2 5. Gadwall - 93 6. American Wigeon - 9 7. American Black Duck - 8 8. Mallard - 682 9. Blue-winged Teal - 1 (female) 10. Northern Shoveler - 42 11. Northern Pintail - 53 12. Green-winged Teal - 179 13. Ring-necked Duck - 4 14. Lesser Scaup - 7 15. Bufflehead - 1 16. Common Goldeneye - 23 17. Hooded Merganser - 38 18. Common Merganser - 8 19. Red-breasted Merganser - 24 20. Pied-billed Grebe - 6 21. Mourning Dove - 82 22. Common Gallinule - 1 23. American Coot - 302 24. Sandhill Crane - 10 25. Marbled Godwit - 1 (with an injured leg) *(Correction to last month's census. We had 4 Hudsonian Godwits and 1 Marbled Godwit - not 5 Hudsonian Godwits. Thanks to Paul Jacyk for photo confirmation of the Marbled Godwit, which our census group had trouble identifying due to fading light, sideways rain, and a tornado warning.)* 26. Dunlin - 12 27. Bonaparte's Gull - 43 28. Ring-billed Gull - 134 29. Herring Gull - 9 30. Double-crested Cormorant - 8 31. Great Blue Heron - 28 32. Great Egret - 1 33. Bald Eagle - 8 (5 adult,3 immature) 34. Northern Harrier - 4 35. Cooper's Hawk - 1 36. Red-tailed Hawk - 13 37. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) 38. Great Horned Owl - 1 39. Snowy Owl - 1 (at the Ottawa NWR/Metzger Marsh fish gate) 40. Belted Kingfisher - 2 41. Red-headed Woodpecker - 5 (3 adult,2 immature) 42. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 43. Downy Woodpecker - 21 44. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 45. Northern Flicker - 3 46. Northern Shrike - 1 47. Blue Jay - 40 48. Horned Lark - 31 49. Black-capped Chickadee - 11 50. Tufted Titmouse - 2 51. White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 52. Brown Creeper - 2 53. Winter Wren - 1 54. Carolina Wren - 1 55. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 56. Eastern Bluebird - 1 57. American Robin - 1 58. European Starling - 96 59. House Sparrow - 47 60. House Finch - 5 61. American Goldfinch - 27 62. Lapland Longspur - 74 (66 in Krause Rd. corn stubble field,8 fly-overs) 63. American Tree Sparrow - 156 64. Song Sparrow - 28 65. Swamp Sparrow - 3 66. Dark-eyed Junco - 7 67. Northern Cardinal - 16 68. Red-winged Blackbird - 56 69. Rusty Blackbird - 91 70. Common Grackle - 4 71. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 *III. FISHES*: 1 SPECIES. 1. Black Bullhead - 1 (caught by a Ring-billed Gull) 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]