*MARCH 04, 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 - except where closed for eagle nesting.) *TIME*: 8:00am - 12:30pm; 1:45pm - 6:30pm *TEMP.*: 27F ~ 37F *COND.*: Chilly early, turning sunny with blue skies, but brisk; winds N/NW at 5-15mph; Lake Erie and all impoundments open; ditches and canals with some skim ice; no snow cover. *OBS.EAST*: Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. *OBS.WEST*: Katie Clink, Julie Heights, Donna Kuhn, James Muller, Dave & Kim Myles, Ed Pierce, Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus. *OBS.AFTERNOON*: Bob Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. *I. MAMMALS*: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 3. American Beaver - 1 (Tied Census High from 06/2014, 04/2017 & 08/2017) 4. White-footed Mouse - 2 5. Common Muskrat - 4 6. Common Raccoon - 2 7. White-tailed Deer - 7 *II. BIRDS*: 67 SPECIES, 19,357 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Canada Goose - 452 2. Trumpeter Swan - 76 (neckbands: "74M - green" & "1A2 - yellow") 3. Tundra Swan - 782 4. Wood Duck - 23 5. Gadwall - 597 6. American Wigeon - 70 7. American Black Duck - 21 8. Mallard - 216 9. Northern Shoveler - 105 10. Northern Pintail - 31 11. Green-winged Teal - 81 12. Redhead - 107 13. Ring-necked Duck - 77 14. Lesser Scaup - 3,332 15. Bufflehead - 49 16. Common Goldeneye - 79 17. Hooded Merganser - 31 18. Common Merganser - 96 19. Red-breasted Merganser - 13 20. Pied-billed Grebe - 5 21. Rock Pigeon - 3 22. Mourning Dove - 30 23. American Coot - 3 24. Sandhill Crane - 14 25. KIlldeer - 35 26. Wilson's Snipe - 6 27. Ring-billed Gull - 137 28. Herring Gull - 26 29. Great Blue Heron - 34 30. Bald Eagle - 14 (8 adult, 6 immature) 31. Northern Harrier - 3 32. Cooper's Hawk - 4 33. Red-tailed Hawk - 11 34. Rough-legged Hawk - 5 (all light morphs and together - swooping and diving at each other over the pine groves south of Krause Rd.) 35. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) 36. Great Horned Owl - 2 (on nests) 37. Short-eared Owl - 3 (at dusk - 2 on Magee Marsh causeway & 1 just north of B.S.B.O. along Magee Marsh entrance road) 38. Red-headed Woodpecker - 4 (adults) 39. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 17 40. Downy Woodpecker - 18 41. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 42. Northern Flicker - 3 43. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature male flying east above Krause Rd. - First March Record on Census) 44. Blue Jay - 52 45. American Crow - 11 46. Horned Lark - 11 47. Black-capped Chickadee - 7 48. Tufted Titmouse - 6 49. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 50. Brown Creeper - 3 51. Eastern Bluebird - 5 52. American Robin - 40 53. European Starling - 1,780 54. House Sparrow - 18 55. House Finch - 5 56. Pine Siskin - 4 (fly-overs & calling at corner of Stange Rd. & Krause Rd. - First March Record on Census) 57. American Goldfinch - 7 58. American Tree Sparrow - 136 59. Song Sparrow - 79 60. Swamp Sparrow - 1 61. Dark-eyed Junco - 18 62. Northern Cardinal - 29 63. Red-winged Blackbird - 5,621 64. Eastern Meadowlark - 2 65. Rusty Blackbird - 458 66. Common Grackle - 1,382 67. Brown-headed Cowbird - 57 Unidentified Ducks - 3,180 (too high up or too far away to positively identify species) 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]