OCTOBER 07, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:45pm; 2:15pm-4:45pm TEMP.: 46-55-53 COND.: Cool & mostly cloudy, west winds 5-10mph.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - (afternoon cut short due to vehicle problems).
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 1
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
3. White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 102 SPECIES.
1. Snow Goose - 9 (blue phase)
2. Canada Goose - 306
3. Mute Swan - 2
4. Trumpeter Swan - 21 (one with yellow neck-band "3AO")
5. Wood Duck - 70
6. Gadwall - 178
7. American Wigeon - 11
8. American Black Duck - 12
9. Mallard - 235
10. Northern Shoveler - 8
11. Green-winged Teal - 30
12. Red-breasted Merganser - 6
13. Ruddy Duck - 4
14. Ring-necked Pheasant - 1
15. Pied-billed Grebe - 52
16. Double-crested Cormorant - 23
17. Great Blue Heron - 48
18. Great Egret - 78
19. Snowy Egret - 1
20. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2
21. Turkey Vulture - 1
22. Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adult,1 immature)
23. Northern Harrier - 4
24. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
25. Cooper's Hawk - 5
26. Red-tailed Hawk - 9
27. Merlin - 1
28. Peregrine Falcon - 3
29. Sora - 1
30. American Coot - 152
31. Sandhill Crane - 2
32. Black-bellied Plover - 3
33. Semipalmated Plover - 2
34. Killdeer - 67
35. Spotted Sandpiper - 2
36. Greater Yellowlegs - 5
37. Lesser Yellowlegs - 1
38. Pectoral Sandpiper - 7
39. Dunlin - 64
40. Wilson's Snipe - 1
41. Ring-billed Gull - 80
42. Herring Gull - 2
43. Caspian Tern - 4
44. Mourning Dove - 65
45. Chimney Swift - 2
46. Belted Kingfisher - 5
47. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (immature)
48. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
49. Downy Woodpecker - 8
50. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
51. Northern Flicker - 8
52. Eastern Phoebe - 4
53. Blue Jay - 27
54. Horned Lark - 20
55. Tree Swallow - 1,939
56. Black-capped Chickadee - 12
57. Tufted Titmouse - 2
58. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3
59. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
60. Brown Creeper - 3
61. Carolina Wren - 2
62. Winter Wren - 1
63. Sedge Wren - 1
64. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 14
65. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 7
66. Eastern Bluebird - 1
67. Veery - 1
68. Swainson's Thrush - 1
69. Hermit Thrush - 1
70. American Robin - 121
71. Gray Catbird - 5
72. European Starling - 4,396
73. Cedar Waxwing - 1
74. Common Yellowthroat - 1
75. Magnolia Warbler - 1
76. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1
77. Blackpoll Warbler - 2
78. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
79. Palm Warbler - 4
80. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 127
81. American Tree Sparrow - 4
82. Chipping Sparrow - 3
83. Field Sparrow - 16
84. Savannah Sparrow - 23
85. LeConte's Sparrow - 1 (Ed Pierce & Douglas W. Vogus - prairie east of Stange Rd. observation deck)
86. Song Sparrow - 37
87. Lincoln's Sparrow - 4
88. Swamp Sparrow - 7
89. White-throated Sparrow - 128
90. White-crowned Sparrow - 47
91. Dark-eyed Junco - 13
92. Northern Cardinal - 11
93. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
94. Indigo Bunting - 3
95. Red-winged Blackbird - 8,390
96. Eastern Meadowlark - 1
97. Common Grackle - 1,924
98. Brown-headed Cowbird - 14
99. Purple Finch - 1 (female)
100. House Finch - 2
101. American Goldfinch - 35
102. House Sparrow - 23
III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - many
IV. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Buckeye - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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