FEBRUARY 03, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-4:15pm TEMP.: 15-24
COND.: Cold & mostly cloudy; all impoundments frozen, Lake Erie frozen to about 1&1/2 miles out; winds west at 5-10mph.
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 1
2. White-footed Mouse - 4
3. Eastern Cottontail - 3
4. White-tailed Deer - 7
II. BIRDS: 52 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 443
2. Mute Swan - 1
3. Trumpeter Swan - 2
4. Tundra Swan - 800
5. Gadwall - 4
6. American Black Duck - 4
7. Mallard - 31
8. Redhead - 2
9. Scaup species - 5
10. Great Blue Heron - 15
11. Bald Eagle - 8 (5 adult, 3 immature)
12. Northern Harrier - 7
13. Cooper's Hawk - 2
14. Red-tailed Hawk - 8
15. American Coot - 2
16. Sandhill Crane - 3
17. Ring-billed Gull - 51
18. Herring Gull - 10
19. Mourning Dove - 100
20. Great Horned Owl - 3
21. Long-eared Owl - 3
22. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8
23. Downy Woodpecker - 15
24. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
25. Northern Flicker - 3
26. American Kestrel - 1
27. Northern Shrike - 1
28. Blue Jay - 14
29. American Crow - 2
30. Horned Lark - 27
31. Black-capped Chickadee - 12
32. Tufted Titmouse - 1
33. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
34. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
35. Carolina Wren - 1
36. American Robin - 8
37. European Starling - 37
38. Lapland Longspur - 2
39. Snow Bunting - 98
40. American Tree Sparrow - 203
41. Savannah Sparrow - 1
42. Song Sparrow - 4
43. Swamp Sparrow - 5
44. Dark-eyed Junco - 8
45. Northern Cardinal - 52
46. Red-winged Blackbird - 71
47. Eastern Meadowlark - 2
48. Rusty Blackbird - 1
49. Brown-headed Cowbird - 25
50. House Finch - 18
51. American Goldfinch - 53
52. House Sparrow - 47

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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