FEBRUARY 02, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Usual morning & afternoon routes except where turned away by drifting snow.
TIME: 8:30am-12:15pm; 1:40pm-4:50pm TEMP.: 27-23
COND.: Cloudy all day, winds calm; about 4 inches of fresh snow; all canals & impoundments frozen; one sliver of
open water on the backside near Metzger Marsh; Lake Erie completely frozen.
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Opossum - 1
2. Raccoon - 4
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
4. White-footed Mouse - 7
5. Eastern Cottontail - 2
6. White-tailed Deer - 35
II. BIRDS: 44 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 55
2. Mute Swan - 5
3. Trumpeter Swan - 7 (one green neckband, one yellow neckband - unable to read)
4. Tundra Swan - 127
5. Gadwall - 5
6. Great Blue Heron - 2
7. Bald Eagle - 4 (3 adult,1 immature)
8. Northern Harrier - 1
9. Cooper's Hawk - 2
10. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
11. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph)
12. Ring-billed Gull - 10
13. Herring Gull - 79
14. Rock Pigeon - 1
15. Mourning Dove - 18
16. Great Horned Owl - 3
17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (adults)
18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14
19. Downy Woodpecker - 13
20. Northern Flicker - 4
21. American Kestrel - 2
22. Blue Jay - 30
23. Horned Lark - 11
24. Black-capped Chickadee - 1
25. Tufted Titmouse - 1
26. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7
27. Brown Creeper - 2
28. Carolina Wren - 1
29. American Robin - 30
30. European Starling - 40
31. Cedar Waxwing - 1
32. Snow Bunting - 82
33. American Tree Sparrow - 92
34. Fox Sparrow - 2
35. Song Sparrow - 1
36. Swamp Sparrow - 1
37. White-throated Sparrow - 6
38. Dark-eyed Junco - 13
39. Northern Cardinal - 34
40. Red-winged Blackbird - 72
41. Rusty Blackbird - 1
42. Brown-headed Cowbird - 32
43. American Goldfinch - 9
44. House Sparrow - 40

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. 

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