NOVEMBER 02, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-5:30pm
TEMP.: 33-48-40 COND.: Chilly morning followed by sunny, blue skies; wind W/NW at 10mph.
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Nancy Gilder, Chris Knoll, Donna Kuhn, Dave Myles (morning only), Kim Myles, Ed Pierce,
Jim Reyda, John Shaffer, Douglas W. Vogus & Bill Whan.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 14
- White-footed Mouse - 1
- Muskrat - 1
- Eastern Cottontail - 2
- White-tailed Deer - 4 (8-pt. buck & 3 doe)
II. BIRDS: 80 SPECIES.
- Canada Goose - 547
- Trumpeter Swan - 54 (one with yellow neckband "3A0")
- Tundra Swan - 404
- Wood Duck - 10
- Gadwall - 2,232
- American Wigeon - 40
- American Black Duck - 26
- Mallard - 403
- Blue-winged Teal - 1 (female)
- Northern Shoveler - 91
- Northern Pintail - 59
- Green-winged Teal - 87
- Hooded Merganser - 8
- Ruddy Duck - 17
- Pied-billed Grebe - 26
- Double-crested Cormorant - 45
- Great Blue Heron - 34
- Great Egret - 16
- Bald Eagle - 12 (6 adult, 6 immature - 3 new nests on refuge)
- Northern Harrier - 6
- Cooper's Hawk - 3
- Red-tailed Hawk - 6
- Virginia Rail - 1
- American Coot - 810
- Sandhill Crane - 7
- Killdeer - 7
- Greater Yellowlegs - 20
- Lesser Yellowlegs - 13
- Least Sandpiper - 1
- Dunlin - 67
- Long-billed Dowitcher - 5
- Wilson's Snipe - 1
- Bonaparte's Gull - 120
- Ring-billed Gull - 151
- Herring Gull - 71
- Forster's Tern - 2
- Mourning Dove - 17
- Great Horned Owl - 1
- Belted Kingfisher - 3
- Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16
- Yellow-bellied Woodpecker - 1
- Downy Woodpecker - 24
- Northern Flicker - 12
- Eastern Phoebe - 2
- Northern Shrike - 1
- Blue Jay - 47
- American Crow - 2
- Horned Lark - 16
- Tree Swallow - 387
- Black-capped Chickadee - 15
- Tufted Titmouse - 2
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 14
- Brown Creeper - 9
- Winter Wren - 5
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 31
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 13
- Eastern Bluebird - 1
- Hermit Thrush - 5
- American Robin - 32
- European Starling - 1,173
- Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8
- American Tree Sparrow - 36
- Field Sparrow - 1
- Fox Sparrow - 21
- Song Sparrow - 17
- Swamp Sparrow - 16
- White-throated Sparrow - 34
- White-crowned Sparrow - 1
- Dark-eyed Junco - 44
- Snow Bunting - 1
- Northern Cardinal - 34
- Red-winged Blackbird - 307
- Eastern Meadowlark - 2
- Rusty Blackbird - 53
- Common Grackle - 8
- Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
- House Finch - 10
- American Goldfinch - 36
- House Sparrow - 66
III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
- Gizzard Shad - 30
IV. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.
- Pearl Crescent - 1
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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