DEC. 05, 2010 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-5:00pm TEMP.: 26-24 COND.: Cold, partly cloudy in the morning turning mostly cloudy; winds NW at 10-15mph; now snow cover; several open areas in inside impoundments, Lake Erie open with choppy water. GROUP I: 5 persons; GROUP II: 15 persons. ROUTES: Same morning and afternoon routes as usual except where dike construction prohibited crossing. OBS.: Delores Cole, Mischele Fisher, Deb Neidert, Al & Betty Schlecht, Abbey Starkey, Jennifer Taylor, Kim Whitmore, Bob Morris' Boy Scout Troop 160 - Ldr. Bob Morris, Benjamin Doty, Cristian Griffith, Jonathan Griffith, Christopher Pfaff, Hunter Quillen, Austin Taylor & Andrew Whitmore (morning only); Aaron Bartley, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
2. White-footed Mouse - 17
3. Eastern Cottontail - 1
4. White-tailed Deer - 10
II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 1,091
2. Mute Swan - 11
3. Trumpeter Swan - 6
4. Tundra Swan - 343
5. Wood Duck - 2
6. Gadwall - 75
7. American Black Duck - 27
8. Mallard - 1,356
9. Northern Shoveler - 43
10. Northern Pintail - 10
11. Green-winged Teal - 14
12. Lesser Scaup - 21
13. Bufflehead - 2
14. Hooded Merganser - 12
15. Red-breasted Merganser - 11
16. Ruddy Duck - 1
17. Great Blue Heron - 59
18. Bald Eagle - 6 (3 adult, 3 imm.)
19. Northern Harrier - 6
20. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
21. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light phase)
22. American Kestrel - 1
23. American Coot - 55
24. Sandhill Crane - 5
25. Killdeer - 7
26. Dunlin - 2
27. Bonaparte's Gull - 11
28. Ring-billed Gull - 1,883
29. Herring Gull - 359
30. Great Black-backed Gull - 5
31. Mourning Dove - 7
32. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1
33. Great Horned Owl - 3
34. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12
35. Downy Woodpecker - 28
36. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
37. Northern Flicker - 5
38. Northern Shrike - 1
39. Blue Jay - 37
40. Tree Swallow - 9
41. Black-capped Chickadee - 11
42. Tufted Titmouse - 1
43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10
44. Brown Creeper - 1
45. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6
46. American Robin - 8
47. European Starling - 16
48. American Tree Sparrow - 124
49. Fox Sparrow - 2
50. Song Sparrow - 4
51. Swamp Sparrow - 1
52. White-throated Sparrow - 14
53. White-crowned Sparrow - 2
54. Dark-eyed Junco - 12
55. Northern Cardinal - 40
56. Red-winged Blackbird - 2
57. Common Grackle - 1
58. House Finch - 3
59. American Goldfinch - 28
60. House Sparrow - 22
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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