MAR. 01, 2009 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-5:00pm TEMP.: 18-24 COND.: Cold and sunny in the morning, bitterly cold wind off the lake from the N-NE at 10-12mph; clouding up late afternoon. No snow cover; inland marshes 90-percent frozen; Lake Erie frozen out to a quarter mile with some very small pockets of open water along the lake.
OBS.: Steve Borgis, Marc Nolls, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Fred Riley, Al & Betty Schlacht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 9 SPECIES.
1. Opossum - 1
2. Raccoon - 1
3. Mink - 1
4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
5. White-footed Mouse - 1
6. Meadow Vole - 1
7. Muskrat - 1
8. Eastern Cottontail - 1
9. White-tailed Deer - 36
II. BIRDS: 63 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 2,188
2. Mute Swan - 14
3. Trumpeter Swan - 22
4. Tundra Swan - 368
5. Wood Duck - 1
6. Gadwall - 35
7. American Wigeon - 23
8. American Black Duck - 78
9. Mallard - 96
10. Northern Shoveler - 11
11. Northern Pintail - 27
12. Green-winged Teal - 4
13. Canvasback - 10
14. Redhead - 300
15. Ring-necked Duck - 8
16. Lesser Scaup - 28
17. Bufflehead - 6
18. Common Goldeneye - 25
19. Hooded Merganser - 50
20. Common Merganser - 74
21. Pied-billed Grebe - 1
22. Horned Grebe - 15
23. Red-necked Grebe - 2
24. Great Blue Heron - 12
25. Bald Eagle - 12 (4 adult, 8 immature)
26. Northern Harrier - 1
27. Red-tailed Hawk - 10
28. American Kestrel - 5
29. American Coot - 5
30. Ring-billed Gull - 561
31. Herring Gull - 162
32. Great Black-backed Gull - 1
33. Mourning Dove - 18
34. Great Horned Owl - 4 (2 nests)
35. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3
36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7
37. Downy Woodpecker - 12
38. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
39. Northern Flicker - 2
40. Blue Jay - 10
41. American Crow - 18
42. Horned Lark - 93
43. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
44. Tufted Titmouse - 3
45. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
46. Brown Creeper - 1
47. American Robin - 2
48. European Starling - 327
49. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
50. American Tree Sparrow - 105
51. Fox Sparrow - 1
52. Song Sparrow - 5
53. White-throated Sparrow - 3
54. White-crowned Sparrow - 1
55. Dark-eyed Junco - 9
56. Lapland Longspur - 8
57. Northern Cardinal - 19
58. Red-winged Blackbird - 80
59. Common Grackle - 2
60. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
61. House Finch - 1
62. American Goldfinch - 19
63. House Sparrow - 60

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.




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