Before I start this month's list, I'd like to add one more species to last month's totals. We ended up with 63 species - not 62, as I forgot to list 2 Eastern Meadowlark seen during the morning count.
APRIL 01, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:40pm; 1:30pm-6:30pm TEMP.: 39-58 COND.: Mostly cloudy, overcast; winds NW during the morning then switching to NE in the afternoon at 5-10mph. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. GROUP I: 5 persons; GROUP II: 7 persons. OBS.: Jenny Bowman, Katie Clink (morning only), Craig Griffin (afternoon only), Deborah Kibbel (afternoon only), Donna Kuhn, Brian & Tyler McClain (morning only), Marie Morgan (afternoon only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Kristi Rowland, Evelyn Schlachter (afternoon only), Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Claire Staples (afternoon only), Bert Szabo, Douglas W. Vogus, Jean Vrohiotes (afternoon only).
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
2. White-footed Mouse - 2
3. Meadow Vole - 3
4. Muskrat - 1
5. Eastern Cottontail - 2
6. White-tailed Deer - 14
II. BIRDS: 85 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 177
2. Mute Swan - 10
3. Trumpeter Swan - 32 (neckbands: "3AO" - yellow & "74M" - green)
4. Tundra Swan - 2
5. Wood Duck - 45
6. Gadwall - 298
7. American Wigeon - 54
8. American Black Duck - 34
9. Mallard - 135
10. Blue-winged Teal - 66
11. Northern Shoveler - 120
12. Northern Pintail - 58
13. Green-winged Teal - 383
14. Redhead - 5
15. Ring-necked Duck - 81
16. Lesser Scaup - 5,000+
17. Bufflehead - 15
18. Hooded Merganser - 63
19. Common Merganser - 3
20. Ruddy Duck - 2,000+
21. Pied-billed Grebe - 57
22. Horned Grebe - 1
23. Double-crested Cormorant - 34
24. Great Blue Heron - 66
25. Great Egret - 27
26. Turkey Vulture - 81
27. Bald Eagle - 11 (4 adult,7 immature)
28. Northern Harrier - 7
29. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 10
30. Cooper's Hawk - 2
31. Red-tailed Hawk - 11 (1 on nest)
32. American Kestrel - 3
33. American Coot - 546
34. Sandhill Crane - 3
35. Killdeer - 29
36. Greater Yellowlegs - 17
37. Lesser Yellowlegs - 10
38. Pectoral Sandpiper - 60
39. Wilson's Snipe - 27
40. American Woodcock - 1
41. Bonaparte's Gull - 43
42. Ring-billed Gull - 32
43. Herring Gull - 19
44. Mourning Dove - 17
45. Great Horned Owl - 5 (1 adult at nest with 2 young)
46. Short-eared Owl - 2
47. Belted Kingfisher - 2
48. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8
49. Downy Woodpecker - 19
50. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
51. Northern Flicker - 26
52. Eastern Phoebe - 7
53. Blue Jay - 7
54. American Crow - 7
55. Horned Lark - 11
56. Purple Martin - 1
57. Tree Swallow - 202
58. Black-capped Chickadee - 5
59. Tufted Titmouse - 4
60. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
61. Brown Creeper - 4
62. Carolina Wren - 1
63. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6
64. Eastern Bluebird - 2
65. American Robin - 101
66. Brown Thrasher - 1
67. European Starling - 84
68. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 9
69. American Tree Sparrow - 2
70. Chipping Sparrow - 2
71. Field Sparrow - 27
72. Savannah Sparrow - 2
73. Fox Sparrow - 14
74. Song Sparrow - 54
75. Swamp Sparrow - 11
76. Dark-eyed Junco - 10
77. Northern Cardinal - 44
78. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,232
79. Eastern Meadowlark - 7
80. Rusty Blackbird - 1,699
81. Common Grackle - 156
82. Brown-headed Cowbird - 51
83. House Finch - 9
84. American Goldfinch - 13
85. House Sparrow - 13
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Garter Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (heard)
2. Northern Leopard Frog - 1
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - many
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1
2. Red Admiral - 6
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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