DEC. 06, 2009 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:35pm; 1:30pm-5:00pm TEMP.: 17-34-24
COND.: Cold, sunny & dry; no snow cover; SW wind at 5-12mph; most impoundments frozen, some with open pockets of water; Lake Erie open.
OBS.: Tom Bartlett, Cheryl Harner, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 1 (in a Wood Duck box) 
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
3. White-footed Mouse - 1
4. Muskrat - 3
5. White-tailed Deer - 14 (buck:9-pt.; doe:5; yearling:8)
II. BIRDS: 56 SPECIES, 1 RELEASE.
1. Snow Goose - 11 (6 blue, 5 white)
2. Canada Goose - 1,671 (black on white neck band: 278C)
3. Mute Swan - 11
R. Trumpeter Swan - 10 (yellow neck band: 1A1)
4. Tundra Swan - 819
5. Gadwall - 39
6. American Wigeon - 6
7. American Black Duck - 451
8. Mallard - 2,163
9. Northern Shoveler - 16
10. Northern Pintail - 30
11. Green-winged Teal - 1
12. Common Goldeneye - 9
13. Hooded Merganser - 83
14. Pied-billed Grebe - 11
15. Double-crested Cormorant - 1
16. Great Blue Heron - 46
17. Bald Eagle - 6 (4 adult, 2 immature)
18. Northern Harrier - 2
19. Cooper's Hawk - 2
20. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 dark phase)
21. American Kestrel - 2
22. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature)
23. American Coot - 206
24. Killdeer - 18
25. Wilson's Snipe - 1
26. Bonaparte's Gull - 37
27. Ring-billed Gull - 498
28. Herring Gull - 35
29. Mourning Dove - 33
30. Great Horned Owl - 3
31. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7
32. Downy Woodpecker - 13
33. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
34. Northern Flicker - 3
35. Blue Jay - 10
36. Horned Lark - 1
37. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
38. Tufted Titmouse - 1
39. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
40. Brown Creeper - 3
41. Carolina Wren - 1
42. American Robin - 2
43. European Starling - 18
44. American Tree Sparrow - 109
45. Fox Sparrow - 1
46. Song Sparrow - 8
47. Swamp Sparrow - 8
48. White-throated Sparrow - 2
49. Dark-eyed Junco - 5
50. Snow Bunting - 2
51. Northern Cardinal - 39
52. Red-winged Blackbird - 3
53. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
54. House Finch - 1
55. American Goldfinch - 50
56. House Sparrow - 51
III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Fathead Minnow - thousands

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

 
 





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