FEB. 06, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-4:00pm TEMP.: 25-33
COND.: Cloudy, snow cover 4" to 18"; wind from south 10-15mph; all impoundments, ditches & lakes frozen. GROUPS: I: 2 persons; II: 4 persons. ROUTES: West side usual; east side morning route and entire afternoon route inaccessible due to lack of plowing; no access to Lake Erie. OBS.: Aaron Bartley, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Opossum - 1
2. Mink - 1
3. White-footed Mouse - 3
4. Eastern Cottontail - 1
5. White-tailed Deer - 11
II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 31
2. Bald Eagle - 2 (adults)
3. Northern Harrier - 5
4. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
5. Cooper's Hawk - 3
6. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
7. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (dark phase)
8. American Kestrel - 3
9. Rock Pigeon - 1
10. Mourning Dove - 31
11. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14
12. Downy Woodpecker - 31
13. Hairy Woodpecker - 4
14. Northern Flicker - 3
15. Blue Jay - 18
16. Horned Lark - 64
17. Black-capped Chickadee - 9
18. Tufted Titmouse - 5
19. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10
20. Brown Creeper - 1
21. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4
22. American Robin - 10
23. European Starling - 81
24. Cedar Waxwing - 12
25. American Tree Sparrow - 169
26. Savannah Sparrow - 2 (see below)
27. Fox Sparrow - 1
28. Song Sparrow - 9
29. Swamp Sparrow - 1
30. White-throated Sparrow - 20
31. White-crowned Sparrow - 1
32. Dark-eyed Junco - 62
33. Snow Bunting - 17
34. Northern Cardinal - 69
35. Red-winged Blackbird - 7
36. Common Grackle - 3
37. Brown-headed Cowbird - 154
38. House Finch - 16
39. American Goldfinch - 34
40. House Sparrow - 33
 
NOTE: The 2 Savannah Sparrows reported on the Christmas Bird Count in early January by D. Vogus are apparently holding steady. Birds were observed by A. Bartley, E. Pierce, J. Reyda & D. Vogus at the corners of Stange & Krause Rds. close to where previously reported near the prarie on Stange Rd. Birds were in the company of Amer. Tree Sparrows, Song Sparrows, Dark-eyed Junco's and 1 Swamp Sparrow along edges of said roads in the grit and grass where the county snowplows had cleared the roads.
   Also 2 dead Winter Wrens were found in the old phoebe nest on the porch of the old Ottawa N.W.R. headquarters, appeared to succumb to previous night's weather.
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.




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