FEBRUARY 07, 2016 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-6:30pmTEMP.: 26-52-47 COND.: Chilly early, turning mostly sunny through the morning; clouding up after 2:00pm;no snow cover; Lake Erie open, most canals & impoundments open.OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda,Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
   - Raccoon - 3

   - Mink - 1
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
   - White-footed Mouse - 9
   - Muskrat - 3
   - Eastern Cottontail - 3
   - White-tailed Deer - 5

II. BIRDS: 53 SPECIES.
   - Snow Goose - 15 (7 white morph,8 blue morph)

   - Ross's Goose - 1
   - Cackling Goose - 4
   - Canada Goose - 2,852
   - Mute Swan - 2
   - Trumpeter Swan - 44 (green band "74M"; yellow band "1A2"; yellow band (too far away to read)
   - Tundra Swan - 4,000+
   - Gadwall - 6
   - American Black Duck - 16
   - Mallard - 93
   - Ring-necked Duck - 3
   - Lesser Scaup - 3
   - Common Goldeneye - 4
   - Hooded Merganser - 2
   - Common Merganser - 172
   - Great Blue Heron - 18
   - Bald Eagle - 13 (6 adult,7 immature)
   - Northern Harrier - 9
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 7
   - Sandhill Crane - 7
   - Ring-billed Gull - 163
   - Herring Gull - 37
   - Rock Pigeon - 1
   - Mourning Dove - 55
   - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1
   - Great Horned Owl - 1
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8
   - Downy Woodpecker - 18
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 1
   - Northern Flicker - 1
   - American Kestrel - 4
   - Blue Jay - 27
   - American Crow - 6
   - Horned Lark - 36
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 22
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 12
   - Brown Creeper - 2
   - Eastern Bluebird - 2
   - American Robin - 26
   - European Starling - 70
   - Lapland Longspur - 102
   - American Tree Sparrow - 148
   - Savannah Sparrow - 1
   - Song Sparrow - 6
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 5
   - Northern Cardinal - 21
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 124
   - Rusty Blackbird - 20
   - Common Grackle - 43
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 26
   - House Finch - 2
   - American Goldfinch - 43
   - House Sparrow - 7

III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.

   - Goldfish - 1 (promptly devoured by a Herring Gull)


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.



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