OCT. 03, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census
TIME: 8:00am-12:15pm; 1:30pm-5:30pm TEMP.: 46-54 COND.: Cloudy with NE winds at 10-20mph RTS.: Same morning routes as usual except where closed for youth waterfowl hunting; same afternoon routes as usual. GROUP I: 4 persons; GROUP II: 2 persons. OBS: Katie Clink (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus, Michelle Zager.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Coyote - 1
2. Woodchuck - 1
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
4. Muskrat - 1
5. Meadow Vole - 1
6. White-tailed Deer - 3 (2 buck: 4-pt & spike, 1 doe)
II. BIRDS: 87 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 491
2. Trumpeter Swan - 19
3. Wood Duck - 189
4. Gadwall - 53
5. American Wigeon - 182
6. American Black Duck - 41
7. Mallard - 1,072
8. Blue-winged Teal - 56
9. Northern Shoveler - 32
10. Northern Pintail - 47
11. Green-winged Teal - 286
12. Hooded Merganser - 1
13. Ruddy Duck - 12
14. Pied-billed Grebe - 16
15. Double-crested Cormorant - 19
16. Great Blue Heron - 51
17. Great Egret - 111
18. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
19. Turkey Vulture - 1
20. Bald Eagle - 9 (4 adult,5 immature)
21. Northern Harrier - 1
22. Cooper's Hawk - 4
23. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
24. Merlin - 1
25. Peregrine Falcon - 2
26. American Coot - 1
27. Killdeer - 21
28. Greater Yellowlegs - 3
29. Lesser Yellowlegs - 17
30. Sanderling - 50
31. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1
32. Pectoral Sandpiper - 5
33. Wilson's Snipe - 3
34. Bonaparte's Gull - 1
35. Ring-billed Gull - 469
36. Herring Gull - 47
37. Caspian Tern - 3
38. Common Tern - 1
39. Mourning Dove - 49
40. Belted Kingfisher - 1
41. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
42. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
43. Downy Woodpecker - 7
44. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
45. Northern Flicker - 11
46. Eastern Phoebe - 2
47. Blue Jay - 16
48. Purple Martin - 1
49. Tree Swallow - 1,163
50. Barn Swallow - 1
51. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
52. Brown Creeper - 1
53. Carolina Wren - 1
54. Marsh Wren - 1
55. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 96
56. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 47
57. Veery - 2
58. Hermit Thrush - 4
59. American Robin - 29
60. Gray Catbird - 2
61. European Starling - 855
62. Cedar Waxwing - 18
63. Cape May Warbler - 1
64. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 47
65. Palm Warbler - 3
66. Blackpoll Warbler - 5
67. American Redstart - 1
68. Common Yellowthroat - 3
69. Chipping Sparrow - 3
70. Field Sparrow - 2
71. Fox Sparrow - 7
72. Song Sparrow - 15
73. Lincoln's Sparrow - 6
74. Swamp Sparrow - 10
75. White-throated Sparrow - 41
76. White-crowned Sparrow - 57
77. Dark-eyed Junco - 16
78. Northern Cardinal - 7
79. Indigo Bunting - 2
80. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,305
81. Eastern Meadowlark - 1
82. Rusty Blackbird - 4
83. Common Grackle - 425
84. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8
85. House Finch - 2
86. American Goldfinch - 11
87. House Sparrow - 3
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
 




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