JANUARY 04, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-4:00pm TEMP.: 37-32COND.: Overcast & gray; wind W/SW 5-15mph; most impoundments frozen; some open water on MS5; Lake Erie open;no snow cover. OBS.: Tom & Paula Bartlett, Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn (morning only), Brian & Tyler McClain (afternoon only), Dave Myles (morning only), Eddie Pausch (morning only), Chris Pierce (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus, Jack & Janet Volker (morning only).I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
- White-footed Mouse - 24
- Meadow Vole - 1
- Muskrat - 1
- Eastern Cottontail - 2
- White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe)
BIRDS: 58 SPECIES.
- Snow Goose - 1 (white morph)
- Canada Goose - 1,048
- Mute Swan - 3
- Trumpeter Swan - 19 (2 neckbands: green "74M" & yellow "1A2")
- Tundra Swan - 1,953
- Gadwall - 38
- American Wigeon - 1
- American Black Duck - 68
- Mallard - 1,686
- Northern Shoveler - 15
- Northern Pintail - 8
- Hooded Merganser - 2
- Common Merganser - 215
- Red-breasted Merganser - 24
- Horned Grebe - 1
- Great Blue Heron - 29
- Bald Eagle - 18 (8 adult, 10 immature - 7 nests on refuge)
- Northern Harrier - 7
- Cooper's Hawk - 2
- Red-tailed Hawk - 14
- American Coot - 1
- Sandhill Crane - 12
- Ring-billed Gull - 519
- Herring Gull - 160
- Mourning Dove - 4
- Eastern Screech-Owl - 7
- Great Horned Owl - 8
- Short-eared Owl - 1
- Belted Kingfisher - 1
- Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
- Downy Woodpecker - 21
- Hairy Woodpecker - 7
- Northern Flicker - 3
- American Kestrel - 1
- Northern Shrike - 1
- Blue Jay - 33
- Tree Swallow - 4
- Black-capped Chickadee - 2
- Tufted Titmouse - 3
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 9
- Brown Creeper - 7
- Winter Wren - 1
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
- Hermit Thrush - 1
- American Robin - 6
- European Starling - 3
- Snow Bunting - 24
- American Tree Sparrow - 50
- Song Sparrow - 8
- Swamp Sparrow - 4
- Dark-eyed Junco - 12
- Northern Cardinal - 20
- Red-winged Blackbird - 84
- House Finch - 2
- American Goldfinch - 30
- House Sparrow - 28
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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