MARCH 02, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:20am-12:15pm; 1:40pm-4:30pm TEMP.: 17-28-23
COND.: Mostly cloudy & cold with some breaks of sun; all water frozen including Lake Erie.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting & impassable snow drifts.
OBS.: Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
2. White-tailed Deer - 42
II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 7
2. Trumpeter Swan - 2 (green neckband: "74M" & yellow neckband: "1A2")
3. Tundra Swan - 4
4. Great Blue Heron - 3
5. Bald Eagle - 8 (4 adult & 4 immature)
6. Northern Harrier - 2
7. Cooper's Hawk - 1
8. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
9. Rough-legged Hawk - 2 (light morph)
10. Ring-billed Gull - 24
11. Herring Gull - 6
12. Rock Pigeon - 3
13. Mourning Dove - 15
14. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph)
15. Short-eared Owl - 1
16. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (adult)
17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
18. Downy Woodpecker - 4
19. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
20. Northern Flicker - 1
21. Northern Shrike - 1
22. Blue Jay - 10
23. American Crow - 12
24. Horned Lark - 112
25. Black-capped Chickadee - 5
26. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
27. American Robin - 3
28. European Starling - 29
29. Lapland Longspur - 6
30. Snow Bunting - 1
31. American Tree Sparrow - 49
32. Song Sparrow - 7
33. White-throated Sparrow - 3
34. Dark-eyed Junco - 19
35. Northern Cardinal - 33
36. Red-winged Blackbird - 265
37. Common Grackle - 3
38. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4
39. American Goldfinch - 3
40. House Sparrow - 11

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. 


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