DECEMBER 01, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:40pm-5:10pm TEMP.: 28-42
COND.: Mostly cloudy turning partly cloudy; wind W/SW & calm; most impoundments & canals frozen; one
impoundment on backside had open water; Lake Erie had some ice in the morning but open by afternoon.
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Ashley Decker (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Betty
Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
2. White-tailed Deer - 8 (10-pt.,6-pt.,6-pt,button-buck & 4 does)
II. BIRDS: 74 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 1,142
2. Mute Swan - 4 (2 adult,2 immature)
3. Trumpeter Swan - 7 (2 neckbands - 1 green & 1 yellow - too far away to read)
4. Tundra Swan - 2,869
5. Gadwall - 33
6. American Wigeon - 2
7. American Black Duck - 46
8. Mallard - 1,382
9. Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male)
10. Northern Shoveler - 3
11. Northern Pintail - 1
12. Lesser Scaup - 24
13. Bufflehead - 2
14. Common Goldeneye - 116
15. Hooded Merganser - 14
16. Red-breasted Merganser - 78
17. Ruddy Duck - 11
18. Pied-billed Grebe - 1
19. Great Blue Heron - 32
20. Great Egret - 1
21. Bald Eagle - 11 (4 adult,7 immature)
22. Northern Harrier - 8
23. Cooper's Hawk - 3
24. Red-tailed Hawk - 8
25. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph)
26. American Coot - 3
27. Sandhill Crane - 12
28. Killdeer - 1
29. Least Sandpiper - 1
30. Dunlin - 5
31. Wilson's Snipe - 1
32. Bonaparte's Gull - 4
33. Ring-billed Gull - 182
34. Herring Gull - 110
35. Mourning Dove - 39
36. Great Horned Owl - 3
37. Short-eared Owl - 5 (1 in field west of Lindsey-Limestone Rd. & 4 in Stange Prairie)
38. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (immature - Butternut Woods)
39. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10
40. Downy Woodpecker - 27
41. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
42. Northern Flicker - 13
43. American Kestrel - 1
44. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature - flying over Adam Grimm Prairie)
45. Blue Jay - 39
46. American Crow - 1
47. Horned Lark - 1
48. Tree Swallow - 1
49. Black-capped Chickadee - 11
50. Tufted Titmouse - 4
51. White-breasted Nuthatch - 15
52. Brown Creeper - 1
53. Carolina Wren - 2
54. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
55. Eastern Bluebird - 3
56. American Robin - 30
57. European Starling - 1,276
58. Lapland Longspur - 88 (fields along Krause Rd.)
59. American Tree Sparrow - 124
60. Fox Sparrow - 1
61. Song Sparrow - 11
62. Swamp Sparrow - 1
63. White-throated Sparrow - 1
64. White-crowned Sparrow - 2
65. Dark-eyed Junco - 7
66. Northern Cardinal - 23
67. Red-winged Blackbird - 243
68. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (Stange Prairie)
69. Rusty Blackbird - 1
70. Common Grackle - 10
71. Brown-headed Cowbird - 17
72. House Finch - 3
73. American Goldfinch - 20
74. House Sparrow - 49
III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Northern Leopard Frog - 1 (hopping across the ice)

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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