MARCH 03, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:45pm-5:45pm
TEMP.: 18-30 COND.: Cloudy & cold early, NW wind at 5-15mph with light flurries; mostly sunny & bright in the afternoon.                                                                                                             Some impoundments open, some frozen; Lake Erie frozen with a few small open leads.
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Earl & Alyn Harrison (morning only), Donna Kuhn (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 2
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
3. Meadow Vole - 14
4. Muskrat - 1
5. Eastern Cottontail - 1
6. White-tailed Deer - 7
II. BIRDS: 58 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 866
2. Mute Swan - 6
3. Trumpeter Swan - 21 (yellow band: "3A8"; yellow band: not able to read; green band: not able to read)
4. Tundra Swan - 680
5. Gadwall - 34
6. American Wigeon - 6
7. American Black Duck - 105
8. Mallard - 392
9. Northern Pintail - 18
10. Green-winged Teal - 5
11. Redhead - 210
12. Ring-necked Duck - 6
13. Lesser Scaup - 14
14. Common Goldeneye - 4
15. Hooded Merganser - 5
16. Common Merganser - 182
17. Great Blue Heron - 39
18. Bald Eagle - 8 (5 adult, 3 immature)
19. Northern Harrier - 6
20. Cooper's Hawk - 1
21. Red-tailed Hawk - 11
22. American Coot - 2
23. Sandhill Crane - 2
24. Killdeer - 6
25. Ring-billed Gull - 14
26. Herring Gull - 4
27. Mourning Dove - 7
28. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph)
29. Great Horned Owl - 1
30. Belted Kingfisher - 1
31. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (adult)
32. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
33. Downy Woodpecker - 13
34. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
35. Northern Flicker - 1
36. American Kestrel - 4
37. Merlin - 1
38. Blue Jay - 18
39. American Crow - 4
40. Horned Lark - 14
41. Black-capped Chickadee - 8
42. Tufted Titmouse - 1
43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
44. Carolina Wren - 2
45. American Robin - 37
46. European Starling - 163
47. American Tree Sparrow - 366
48. Song Sparrow - 2
49. Swamp Sparrow - 2
50. Dark-eyed Junco - 2
51. Northern Cardinal - 76
52. Red-winged Blackbird - 508
53. Rusty Blackbird - 1
54. Common Grackle - 7
55. Brown-headed Cowbird - 248
56. House Finch - 12
57. American Goldfinch - 57
58. House Sparrow - 89

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.


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