NOVEMBER 06, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:50pm; 1:40pm-6:00pm
TEMP.: 34-62 COND.: Chilly early, warming throughout, sunny & pleasant; wind SW at 10-15mph.
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 1
2. Coyote - 1
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
4. Muskrat - 2
5. White-footed Mouse - 5
6. White-tailed Deer - 9 (2 bucks - 9-pt. & 6-pt., 7 does)
II. BIRDS: 77 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 270
2. Mute Swan - 2
3. Trumpeter Swan - 25
4. Tundra Swan - 29
5. Wood Duck - 23
6. Gadwall - 358
7. American Wigeon - 71
8. American Black Duck - 6
9. Mallard - 713
10. Northern Shoveler - 13
11. Northern Pintail - 13
12. Green-winged Teal - 85
13. Redhead - 2
14. Bufflehead - 1
15. Hooded Merganser - 8
16. Ruddy Duck - 17
17. Pied-billed Grebe - 10
18. Double-crested Cormorant - 53
19. Great Blue Heron - 89
20. Great Egret - 48
21. Glossy Ibis - 4 (adults)
22. White Ibis - 1 (immature - seen by D. Kuhn, E. Pierce, J. Reyda & D. Vogus - documentation to be sent to O.B.R.C.)
23. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult, 2 immature)
24. Northern Harrier - 3
25. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
26. Cooper's Hawk - 3
27. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
28. Merlin - 1 (adult male with fresh kill)
29. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult male that caught a Dunlin)
30. American Coot - 369
31. Killdeer - 6
32. Greater Yellowlegs - 22 (1 eating a frog)
33. Hudsonian Godwit - 2
34. Unidentified Peep Species - 1 (Semipalmated or Least Sandpiper)
35. Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
36. Dunlin - 247
37. Long-billed Dowitcher - 47
38. Wilson's Snipe - 2
39. Bonaparte's Gull - 281
40. Ring-billed Gull - 270
41. Herring Gull - 6
42. Mourning Dove - 14
43. Great Horned Owl - 2
44. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
45. Downy Woodpecker - 15
46. Hairy Woodpecker - 4
47. Northern Flicker - 3
48. Northern Shrike - 1
49. Blue Jay - 6
50. American Crow - 3
51. Horned Lark - 3
52. Tree Swallow - 1
53. Black-capped Chickadee - 15
54. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
55. Winter Wren - 1
56. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3
57. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
58. American Robin - 40
59. Northern Mockingbird - 1
60. European Starling - 240
61. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
62. American Tree Sparrow - 48
63. Field Sparrow - 1
64. Fox Sparrow - 9
65. Song Sparrow - 13
66. Swamp Sparrow - 3
67. White-throated Sparrow - 3
68. Dark-eyed Junco - 22
69. Snow Bunting - 1
70. Northern Cardinal - 14
71. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,517
72. Rusty Blackbird - 63
73. Common Grackle - 55
74. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
75. House Finch - 4
76. American Goldfinch - 9
77. House Sparrow - 6
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Garter Snake - 3
IV. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 1
V. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Clouded Sulphur - 4

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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