JANUARY 03, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-4:40pm.TEMP.: 28-33 COND.: Cloudy all day; no snow cover; most canals & smaller bodies of water frozen.Open areas on some of the larger impoundments; Lake Erie open; winds NW at 5-10mph.OBS.: Paula Bartlett, Tom Bartlett (morning only), Steve Cagan, Katie Clink (morning only),Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Chris Pierce (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, TonySzilagye (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. (NOTE: Four others that I did not get names from - contact Tom Bartlett for complete list.)I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.   
   - Raccoon - 1   

   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
   - White-footed Mouse - 1
   - Muskrat - 2
   - White-tailed Deer - 2 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES.   
   - Snow Goose - 3 (blue morph)   

   - Canada Goose - 1,335
   - Trumpeter Swan - 8
   - Tundra Swan - 2,875
   - Wood Duck - 1
   - Gadwall - 391
   - American Wigeon - 4
   - American Black Duck - 204
   - Mallard - 3,694
   - Northern Shoveler - 2
   - Green-winged Teal - 2
   - Redhead - 26
   - Ring-necked Duck - 1 (injured female)
   - Bufflehead - 1
   - Common Goldeneye - 19
   - Hooded Merganser - 12
   - Common Merganser - 165
   - Red-breasted Merganser - 92
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 1
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 1
   - Great Blue Heron - 29
   - Bald Eagle - 32 (14 adult,18 immature)
   - Northern Harrier - 3
   - Cooper's Hawk - 2
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 16
   - American Coot - 88
   - Sandhill Crane - 29
   - Killdeer - 1
   - Bonaparte's Gull - 15
   - Ring-billed Gull - 296
   - Herring Gull - 74
   - Mourning Dove - 54
   - Eastern Screech-Owl - 4
   - Great Horned Owl - 3
   - Short-eared Owl - 3
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
   - Downy Woodpecker - 29
   - Northern Flicker - 2
   - American Kestrel - 1
   - Blue Jay - 59
   - Horned Lark - 58
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 10
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 17
   - Winter Wren - 1
   - Carolina Wren - 1
   - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
   - American Robin - 1,053
   - European Starling - 18
   - Cedar Waxwing - 20
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
   - American Tree Sparrow - 164
   - Song Sparrow - 6
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 2
   - Northern Cardinal - 27
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 1
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 5
   - Rusty Blackbird - 5
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 20
   - American Goldfinch - 49
   - House Sparrow - 33

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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