NOV. 04, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:40pm-5:30pm TEMP.: 37-43-38
COND.: Cloudy & overcast all day. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al &
Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
2. Muskrat - 1
3. White-footed Mouse - 2
4. White-tailed Deer - 8
II. BIRDS: 78 SPECIES.
1. Snow Goose - 1 (white phase)
2. Canada Goose - 452
3. Mute Swan - 8
4. Trumpeter Swan - 47 (green neckband "74M", yellow neckband "1A2")
5. Tundra Swan - 60
6. Wood Duck - 16
7. Gadwall - 479
8. American Wigeon - 30
9. American Black Duck - 120
10. Mallard - 2,603
11. Northern Shoveler - 16
12. Northern Pintail - 42
13. Green-winged Teal - 90
14. Canvasback - 2
15. Ring-necked Duck - 22
16. Bufflehead - 5
17. Hooded Merganser - 15
18. Ruddy Duck - 7
19. Pied-billed Grebe - 41
20. Horned Grebe - 2
21. Double-crested Cormorant - 1
22. Great Blue Heron - 92
23. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 5 (immature)
24. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 immature)
25. Northern Harrier - 4
26. Cooper's Hawk - 1
27. Red-tailed Hawk - 9
28. American Kestrel - 1
29. American Coot - 1,498
30. Sandhill Crane - 2
31. Semipalmated Plover - 1
32. Killdeer - 17
33. Greater Yellowlegs - 5
34. Dunlin - 25
35. Wilson's Snipe - 6
36. Bonaparte's Gull - 110
37. Ring-billed Gull - 179
38. Herring Gull - 21
39. Mourning Dove - 16
40. Great Horned Owl - 5
41. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12
42. Downy Woodpecker - 31
43. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
44. Northern Flicker - 6
45. Northern Shrike - 1
46. Blue Jay - 32
47. American Crow - 1
48. Horned Lark - 2
49. Tree Swallow - 2
50. Black-capped Chickadee - 24
51. White-breasted Nuthatch - 11
52. Brown Creeper - 1
53. Carolina Wren - 4
54. Winter Wren - 2
55. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 12
56. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3
57. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
58. Hermit Thrush - 1
59. American Robin - 16
60. European Starling - 222
61. American Tree Sparrow - 47
62. Chipping Sparrow - 1
63. Fox Sparrow - 17
64. Song Sparrow - 6
65. Swamp Sparrow - 5
66. White-throated Sparrow - 6
67. White-crowned Sparrow - 1
68. Dark-eyed Junco - 8
69. Snow Bunting - 21
70. Northern Cardinal - 36
71. Red-winged Blackbird - 851
72. Rusty Blackbird - 184
73. Common Grackle - 43
74. Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
75. House Finch - 18
76. Pine Siskin - 4
77. American Goldfinch - 37
78. House Sparrow - 75

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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