Here within is the unofficial results from the monthly Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge census. Ed Pierce will have official results later.
  FEB. 03, 2008 - Hike the east and west sides, break for lunch, then drive the backside impoundments after lunch.
  TIME: 8:00am-5:30pm TEMP.: 32-37-35 COND.: Cloudy and calm all day.
  OBS.: Richard Johnson, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Bert Szabo, Douglas W. Vogus, Jack & Janet Volker, and I apologize for the two others whose names I didn't fully get - Steve ? and ?.
  I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
  1. Coyote - 1
  2. White-footed Mouse - 3
  3. Muskrat - 1
  4. Eastern Cottontail - 5
  5. White-tailed Deer - 24
  II. BIRDS: 59 SPECIES (Unofficially)
  1. Snow Goose - 49 (31 blue, 18 white)
  2. Canada Goose - 11,778
  3. Mute Swan - 11
  4. Trumpeter Swan - 8
  5. Tundra Swan - 150+
  6. Gadwall - 2
  7. American Black Duck - 30+
  8. Mallard - 200+
  9. Northern Pintail - 25+
  10. Canvasback - 2 (m)
  11. Ring-necked Duck - 2 (m)
  12. Lesser Scaup - 20+
  13. Bufflehead - 4 (1m,3f)
  14. Common Merganser - 36
  15. Red-breasted Merganser - 2
  16. Great Blue Heron - 20+
  17. Bald Eagle - 11 (4 adult, 7 immature)
  18. Northern Harrier - 7 (1m,6f)
  19. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (juv. f)
  20. Cooper's Hawk - 4
  21. Red-tailed Hawk - 10
  22. American Kestrel - 2
  23. American Coot - 10
  24. Ring-billed Gull - 50+
  25. Herring Gull - 30+
  26. Great Black-backed Gull - 1
  27. Mourning Dove - 25+
  28. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray phase)
  29. Great Horned Owl - 1
  30. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
  31. Downy Woodpecker - 12+
  32. Hairy Woodpecker - 5+
  33. Northern Flicker - 4
  34. Northern Shrike - 1
  35. Blue Jay - 20
  36. American Crow - 1
  37. Horned Lark - 20
  38. Black-capped Chickadee - 2
  39. Tufted Titmouse - 18
  40. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
  41. Winter Wren - 1
  42. American Robin - 20
  43. Northern Mockingbird - 1
  44. European Starling - 50+
  45. American Tree Sparrow - 230+
  46. Field Sparrow - 1
  47. Song Sparrow - 10
  48. Swamp Sparrow - 7
  49. Dark-eyed Junco - 6
  50. Snow Bunting - 16
  51. Northern Cardinal - 20+
  52. Red-winged Blackbird - 5
  53. Eastern Meadowlark - 10+
  54. Rusty Blackbird - 13
  55. Common Grackle - 1
  56. Brown-headed Cowbird - 226
  57. House Finch - 8
  58. American Goldfinch - 45+
  59. House Sparrow - 2




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