APRIL 01, 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 due to active
eagle nests.
TIME: 8:00am - 12:30pm; 2:30pm - 6:20pm  TEMP.: 26 ~ 43  COND.: Mostly
cloudy early, turning partly sunny; winds W/NW at 5-10mph; cloudy in the
afternoon.
OBS. EAST: Katie Clink, Ed Pierce.  OBS. WEST: Donna Kuhn, Destiny Priest,
Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus.
OBS. AFTERNOON: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.

   1. Virginia Opossum - 1
   2. Eastern Cottontail - 3
   3. Woodchuck - 1
   4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6
   5. Common Muskrat - 4
   6. White-tailed Deer - 7


II. BIRDS: 81 SPECIES, 8,250 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Canada Goose - 277
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 66 (neckbands: "green 74M" & "yellow 1A2")
   3. Tundra Swan - 14
   4. Wood Duck - 59
   5. Gadwall - 608
   6. American Wigeon - 18
   7. American Black Duck - 20
   8. Mallard - 224
   9. Blue-winged Teal - 47
   10. Northern Shoveler - 107
   11. Northern Pintail - 13
   12. Green-winged Teal - 285
   13. Redhead - 14
   14. Ring-necked Duck - 218
   15. Lesser Scaup - 2,984
   16. Bufflehead - 54
   17. Common Goldeneye - 4
   18. Hooded Merganser - 40
   19. Common Merganser - 165
   20. Red-breasted Merganser - 13
   21. Pied-billed Grebe - 8
   22. Horned Grebe - 1
   23. Rock Pigeon - 3
   24. Mourning Dove - 34
   25. American Coot - 25
   26. Sandhill Crane - 6
   27. KIlldeer - 22
   28. Wilson's Snipe - 18
   29. Bonaparte's Gull - 4
   30. Ring-billed Gull - 44
   31. Herring Gull - 13
   32. Double-crested Cormorant - 46
   33. Great Blue Heron - 45
   34. Great Egret - 70
   35. Snowy Egret - 2  (3rd Record on April Census)
   36. Turkey Vulture - 88
   37. Bald Eagle - 23 (15 adult,8 immature)
   38. Northern Harrier - 6
   39. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
   40. Cooper's Hawk - 2
   41. Red-tailed Hawk - 25
   42. Rough-legged Hawk - 3  (light morph)
   43. Great Horned Owl - 2  (both birds on nests)
   44. Belted Kingfisher - 3
   45. Red-headed Woodpecker - 5
   46. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10
   47. Downy Woodpecker - 9
   48. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
   49. Northern Flicker - 9
   50. American Kestrel - 3
   51. Eastern Phoebe - 7
   52. Blue Jay - 21
   53. American Crow - 2
   54. Horned Lark - 3
   55. Tree Swallow - 234
   56. Barn Swallow - 1
   57. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
   58. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7
   59. Brown Creeper - 1
   60. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5
   61. Hermit Thrush - 1
   62. American Robin - 171
   63. European Starling - 181
   64. Cedar Waxwing - 9  (one flock)
   65. House Sparrow - 34
   66. House Finch - 4
   67. American Goldfinch - 9
   68. American Tree Sparrow - 122
   69. Chipping Sparrow - 22
   70. Field Sparrow - 2
   71. Savannah Sparrow - 4  (Adam Grimm Prairie)
   72. Fox Sparrow - 3
   73. Song Sparrow - 119
   74. Swamp Sparrow - 1
   75. White-throated Sparrow - 1
   76. Dark-eyed Junco - 30
   77. Northern Cardinal - 26
   78. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,276
   79. Rusty Blackbird - 13
   80. Common Grackle - 166
   81. Brown-headed Cowbird - 6


III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Garter Snake - 2  (Stange Prairie)


IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Northern Leopard Frog - 1


V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - 1


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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