JANUARY 05, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-4:40pm TEMP.: 24-32-26 COND.: Chilly in the morning, warming, sunny most of the day; winds S/SW at 5-10mph.
ROUTES: Usual morning & afternoon routes. OBS.: Tom & Paula Bartlett, Katie Clink, Mike Fitts (morning only), Leonard Fox (morning only), Fred Lewis (morning only), John & Jen Nelson, Eddie Paush (morning only), Chris Pierce (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus, Jack Volker (morning only). (I apologize to those I may have missed - for a complete list of Christmas Count volunteers please contact H. Thomas Bartlett. And a special thanks to the Ottawa N.W.R. staff & volunteers for the chili luncheon).
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Opossum - 1
2. Raccoon - 1
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
4. White-footed Mouse - 3
5. Meadow Vole - 1
6. White-tailed Deer - 17
II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 182
2. Mute Swan - 23
3. Trumpeter Swan - 11
4. Tundra Swan - 611
5. Gadwall - 94
6. American Black Duck - 9
7. Mallard - 19
8. Green-winged Teal - 4
9. Common Goldeneye - 111
10. Common Merganser - 3
11. Red-breasted Merganser - 8
12. Great Blue Heron - 89
13. Bald Eagle - 9 (3 adult, 6 immature)
14. Northern Harrier - 9
15. Cooper's Hawk - 3
16. Red-tailed Hawk - 10
17. American Coot - 213
18. Ring-billed Gull - 37
19. Herring Gull - 65
20. Mourning Dove - 80
21. Eastern Screech-Owl - 2
22. Great Horned Owl - 3
23. Long-eared Owl - 3
24. Short-eared Owl - 1
25. Rufous Hummingbird - 1 (BSBO feeder area)
26. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 (2 adult, 1 immature)
27. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11
28. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
29. Downy Woodpecker - 23
30. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
31. Northern Flicker - 2
32. American Kestrel - 1
33. Northern Shrike - 1
34. Blue Jay - 18
35. American Crow - 2
36. Horned Lark - 19
37. Black-capped Chickadee - 20
38. Tufted Titmouse - 4
39. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
40. White-breasted Nuthatch - 11
41. Brown Creeper - 7
42. Carolina Wren - 3
43. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4
44. American Robin - 81
45. European Starling - 45
46. American Tree Sparrow - 302
47. Song Sparrow - 10
48. Swamp Sparrow - 3
49. Dark-eyed Junco - 28
50. Northern Cardinal - 111
51. Red-winged Blackbird - 2
52. Eastern Meadowlark - 3 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
53. Rusty Blackbird - 13
54. Common Grackle - 1
55. Brown-headed Cowbird - 33
56. House Finch - 15
57. Common Redpoll - 3
58. Pine Siskin - 1
59. American Goldfinch - 30
60. House Sparrow - 58

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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