FEBRUARY 04, 2018 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: East and west sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon.
TIME: 8:00am - 12:20pm; 1:45pm - 4:45pm  TEMP.: 33 ~ 36
COND.: Gray and overcast with steady, wet snow from 8:00am to 11:00am;
light flurries rest of day; wind W/SW at 5-10mph. Canals and
ditches mostly frozen; some open leads of water on the east side in Pool 1;
one small lead open in Metzger Marsh; Lake Erie open.
OBS. EAST: Katie Clink, Ed Pierce.  OBS. WEST: Dave & Kim Myles, Jim Reyda,
Al & Betty Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus.
OBS. AFTERNOON: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 7
   2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6
   3. Meadow Vole - 2
   4. Common Muskrat - 1
   5. Coyote - 2
   6. Red Fox - 1
   7. Common Raccoon - 2
   8. White-tailed Deer - 8


II. BIRDS: 49 SPECIES, 1,930 INDIVIDUALS.

   1. Canada Goose - 497
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 67 (one with yellow neckband too far away to read)
   3. Tundra Swan - 431
   4. American Black Duck - 3
   5. Mallard - 18
   6. Lesser Scaup - 14
   7. Hooded Merganser - 6
   8. Common Merganser - 37
   9. Red-breasted Merganser - 52
   10. Mourning Dove - 18
   11. Sandhill Crane - 1
   12. Ring-billed Gull - 16
   13. Herring Gull - 13
   14. Great Blue Heron - 27
   15. Bald Eagle - 24 (6 adult,18 immature)
   16. Northern Harrier - 4
   17. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
   18. Red-tailed Hawk - 11
   19. Rough-legged Hawk - 2 (1 dark morph,1 light morph)
   20. Great Horned Owl - 5
   21. Red-headed Woodpecker - 6 (3 adult,3 immature)
   22. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13
   23. Downy Woodpecker - 19
   24. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
   25. Northern Flicker - 2
   26. American Kestrel - 4
   27. Blue Jay - 21
   28. Horned Lark - 1
   29. Black-capped Chickadee - 17
   30. Tufted Titmouse - 4
   31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8
   32. Brown Creeper - 3
   33. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3
   34. American Robin - 2
   35. European Starling - 119
   36. House Sparrow - 53
   37. House Finch - 2
   38. American Goldfinch - 66
   39. Lapland Longspur - 14
   40. American Tree Sparrow - 203
   41. Song Sparrow - 7
   42. Swamp Sparrow - 7
   43. White-throated Sparrow - 3
   44. Dark-eyed Junco - 26
   45. Northern Cardinal - 52
   46. Red-winged Blackbird - 3
   47. Rusty Blackbird - 2
   48. Common Grackle - 1
   49. Brown-headed Cowbird - 19


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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