MARCH 04, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:50pm; 2:00pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 30-40 COND.: Cloudy with occasional flurries until 11:00am; mostly sunny until lunch; winds W at 10-15mph; cloudy with occasional snow squalls & breaks of clouds/sun in the afternoon; no snow cover; all water open.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - except where closed for eagle nesting. GROUP I: 5 persons; GROUP II: 5 persons.
OBS.: Jenny Bowman, Katie Clink (morning only), Ethan Kistler, Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Kristi Rowland, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 1
2. Mink - 2
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
4. White-footed Mouse - 5
5. Meadow Vole - 6
6. Muskrat - 2
7. Eastern Cottontail - 1
8. White-tailed Deer - 2
II. BIRDS: 62 SPECIES.
X. Greater White-fronted Goose - 3 (entrance road to Metzger Marsh W.A. off of Rt. 2, but not on refuge property)
X. Snow Goose - 13 (7 blue,6 white - entrance road to Metzger Marsh W.A. off of Rt. 2, but not on refuge property)
1. Canada Goose - 748
2. Mute Swan - 6
3. Trumpeter Swan - 14 (neckbands: "74M"-green, "1A2"-yellow & "3A0"-yellow)
4. Tundra Swan - 1,221
5. Wood Duck - 23
6. Gadwall - 363
7. American Wigeon - 57
8. American Black Duck - 131
9. Mallard - 1,188
10. Northern Shoveler - 30
11. Northern Pintail - 57
12. Green-winged Teal - 9
13. Canvasback - 3
14. Redhead - 272
15. Ring-necked Duck - 86
16. Lesser Scaup - 140
17. Bufflehead - 7
18. Hooded Merganser - 23
19. Common Merganser - 246
20. Ruddy Duck - 1
21. Pied-billed Grebe - 2
22. Great Blue Heron - 20
23. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 immature)
24. Northern Harrier - 11 (7m,4f - all standing in one field along Krause Rd. towards dusk)
25. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
26. Red-tailed Hawk - 11
27. American Kestrel - 2
28. American Coot - 626
29. Sandhill Crane - 11
30. Killdeer - 7
31. Bonaparte's Gull - 5
32. Ring-billed Gull - 816
33. Herring Gull - 61
34. Mourning Dove - 16
35. Great Horned Owl - 1
36. Long-eared Owl - 1
37. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7
38. Downy Woodpecker - 26
39. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
40. Northern Flicker - 7
41. Blue Jay - 11
42. American Crow - 3
43. Horned Lark - 12
44. Black-capped Chickadee - 13
45. Tufted Titmouse - 4
46. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10
47. Brown Creeper - 3
48. Carolina Wren - 2
49. Winter Wren - 1
50. American Robin - 20
51. European Starling - 99
52. American Tree Sparrow - 326
53. Song Sparrow - 47
54. Dark-eyed Junco - 5
55. Northern Cardinal - 105
56. Red-winged Blackbird - 719
57. Rusty Blackbird - 26
58. Common Grackle - 165
59. Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
60. House Finch - 4
61. American Goldfinch - 49
62. House Sparrow - 24

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. 

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