APRIL 06, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - except where closed for eagle nesting.
TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:40pm-7:00pm TEMP.: 30-55 COND.: Chilly early then sunny & breezy.
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Tom Fishburn (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Doug Mins, Ed Pierce,
Jim Reyda, John Shaffer & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
2. White-footed Mouse - 2
3. Muskrat - 10
4. White-tailed Deer - 4
II. BIRDS: 88 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 230
2. Trumpeter Swan - 47 (neckbands: "1A2 - Yellow", "3A8 - Yellow" & "74M - Green")
3. Tundra Swan - 4
4. Wood Duck - 26
5. Gadwall - 249
6. American Wigeon - 72
7. American Black Duck - 15
8. Mallard - 45
9. Blue-winged Teal - 46
10. Northern Shoveler - 47
11. Northern Pintail - 7
12. Green-winged Teal - 71
13. Canvasback - 38
14. Redhead - 407
15. Ring-necked Duck - 84
16. Greater Scaup - 42
17. Lesser Scaup - 960
18. Bufflehead - 62
19. Common Goldeneye - 17
20. Hooded Merganser - 42
21. Common Merganser - 97
22. Ruddy Duck - 8
23. Pied-billed Grebe - 35
24. Horned Grebe - 5
25. Double-crested Cormorant - 78
26. Great Blue Heron - 58
27. Great Egret - 54
28. Turkey Vulture - 5
29. Osprey - 1
30. Bald Eagle - 16 (6 adult & 10 immature)
31. Northern Harrier - 3
32. Cooper's Hawk - 1
33. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
34. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph)
35. American Coot - 444
36. Sandhill Crane - 8
37. Killdeer - 26
38. Greater Yellowlegs - 5
39. Lesser Yellowlegs - 14
40. Wilson's Snipe - 20
41. American Woodcock - 2
42. Bonaparte's Gull - 210
43. Ring-billed Gull - 65
44. Herring Gull - 90
45. Rock Pigeon - 2
46. Mourning Dove - 19
47. Great Horned Owl - 1
48. Short-eared Owl - 1
49. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
50. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7
51. Downy Woodpecker - 10
52. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
53. Northern Flicker - 10
54. American Kestrel - 4
55. Eastern Phoebe - 11
56. Blue Jay - 16
57. American Crow - 1
58. Horned Lark - 8
59. Purple Martin - 3
60. Tree Swallow - 207
61. Black-capped Chickadee - 10
62. Tufted Titmouse - 1
63. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
64. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 10
65. American Robin - 67
66. Northern Mockingbird - 1
67. European Starling - 138
68. Lapland Longspur - 72
69. Eastern Towhee - 2
70. American Tree Sparrow - 28
71. Field Sparrow - 3
72. Vesper Sparrow - 1
73. Savannah Sparrow - 5
74. Fox Sparrow - 13
75. Song Sparrow - 47
76. Swamp Sparrow - 2
77. White-throated Sparrow - 1
78. White-crowned Sparrow - 1
79. Dark-eyed Junco - 17
80. Northern Cardinal - 35
81. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,298
82. Eastern Meadowlark - 11
83. Rusty Blackbird - 140
84. Common Grackle - 481
85. Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
86. House Finch - 3
87. American Goldfinch - 1
88. House Sparrow - 22
III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Northern Leopard Frog - (several seen & heard)
IV. FISHES: (not a sighting - but something of note)
1. There was a massive after-thaw die-off of Bowfin (Amia calva) along one of the backside
impoundments. We estimated over 400 dead fish - many well over 2 feet in length.

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Oh.

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