DEC. 04, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-11:30am; 1:00pm-4:30pm TEMP.: 43-49
COND.: Light rain throughout the morning; steady light rain throughout the afternoon; winds SW at 10-15mph.
GROUP I: 2 persons; GROUP II: 5 persons. OBS.: Donna Kuhn, Craig & Sharon Moore, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda,
Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only).
I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
2. White-footed Mouse - 5
3. White-tailed Deer - 4
II. BIRDS: 48 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 416
2. Mute Swan - 5
3. Trumpeter Swan - 41 (yellow neckband: 3A8)
4. Tundra Swan - 1,113
5. Wood Duck - 11
6. Gadwall - 1,264
7. American Black Duck - 42
8. Mallard - 2,510
9. Northern Shoveler - 97
10. Northern Pintail - 5
11. Green-winged Teal - 102
12. Bufflehead - 9
13. Hooded Merganser - 4
14. Common Merganser - 12
15. Ruddy Duck - 8
16. Pied-billed Grebe - 14
17. Great Blue Heron - 16
18. Bald Eagle - 10 (4 adult,6 immature)
19. Northern Harrier - 2
20. Cooper's Hawk - 1
21. Red-tailed Hawk - 2
22. American Kestrel - 1
23. American Coot - 72
24. Sandhill Crane - 3
25. Bonaparte's Gull - 17
26. Ring-billed Gull - 567
27. Herring Gull - 13
28. Great Black-backed Gull - 1
29. Mourning Dove - 57
30. Belted Kingfisher - 1
31. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
32. Downy Woodpecker - 7
33. Northern Flicker - 1
34. Blue Jay - 5
35. Horned Lark - 15
36. Black-capped Chickadee - 7
37. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
38. Brown Creeper - 1
39. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
40. American Robin - 2
41. European Starling - 7
42. American Tree Sparrow - 90
43. Song Sparrow - 3
44. Swamp Sparrow - 1
45. Dark-eyed Junco - 7
46. Northern Cardinal - 17
47. American Goldfinch - 20
48. House Sparrow - 10

Douglas W. Vogus (for Ed Pierce) - Akron, Ohio.

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