APRIL 03, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-12:15pm; 2:00pm-6:35pm.TEMP.: 28-46-38 COND.: Mostly cloudy all day, wind W at 5-15mph; no snow cover; all canals, ditches, impoundments & Lake Eriewere ice-free. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Michael & Angela Dale (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Lisa Phelps, Ed Pierce, JimReyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Tony Szilagye (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
   - Raccoon - 2

   - Mink - 2
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
   - Muskrat - 9
   - White-tailed Deer - 8

II. BIRDS: 79 SPECIES.
   - Canada Goose - 489

   - Mute Swan - 1
   - Trumpeter Swan - 57
   - Tundra Swan - 2
   - Wood Duck - 61
   - Gadwall - 367
   - American Wigeon - 24
   - American Black Duck - 15
   - Mallard - 115
   - Blue-winged Teal - 95
   - Northern Shoveler - 303
   - Green-winged Teal - 147
   - Redhead - 19
   - Ring-necked Duck - 140
   - Greater Scaup - 6
   - Lesser Scaup - 2,328
   - Bufflehead - 88
   - Hooded Merganser - 26
   - Common Merganser - 7
   - Red-breasted Merganser - 4
   - Ruddy Duck - 16
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 33
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 111
   - Great Blue Heron - 90
   - Great Egret - 95
   - Turkey Vulture - 5
   - Bald Eagle - 13 (6 adult,7 immature)
   - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
   - Cooper's Hawk - 2
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 10
   - American Coot - 806
   - Sandhill Crane - 1
   - Killdeer - 16
   - Greater Yellowlegs - 10
   - Lesser Yellowlegs - 10
   - Wilson's Snipe - 1
   - American Woodcock - 1
   - Bonaparte's Gull - 21
   - Ring-billed Gull - 47
   - Herring Gull - 14
   - Caspian Tern - 1
   - Mourning Dove - 10
   - Great Horned Owl - 4 (2 adult,2 downy young in nest)
   - Belted Kingfisher - 2
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7
   - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
   - Downy Woodpecker - 15
   - Northern Flicker - 17
   - American Kestrel - 1
   - Eastern Phoebe - 5
   - Blue Jay - 12
   - American Crow - 4
   - Horned Lark - 6
   - Tree Swallow - 336
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 3
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 6
   - Brown Creeper - 4
   - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 14
   - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
   - American Robin - 102
   - Brown Thrasher - 1
   - European Starling - 45
   - American Tree Sparrow - 71
   - Chipping Sparrow - 6
   - Field Sparrow - 2
   - Savannah Sparrow - 1
   - Fox Sparrow - 74
   - Song Sparrow - 53
   - Swamp Sparrow - 3
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 31
   - Northern Cardinal - 28
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 352
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 7
   - Rusty Blackbird - 6
   - Common Grackle - 146
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 11
   - House Finch - 7
   - House Sparrow - 12

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

______________________________________________________________________

Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php.
Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.


You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]