APRIL 05, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 2:00pm-7:20pmTEMP.: 41-63-59 COND.: Mostly cloudy turning partly sunny; wind W at 5-20mph, gusting to 25mph by afternoon.OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Heidi Hughes (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) &Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
   - Woodchuck - 1

   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
   - Muskrat - 12
   - Eastern Cottontail - 1
II. BIRDS: 94 SPECIES.
   - Canada Goose - 284

   - Trumpeter Swan - 12 (neckbands: yellow "3A8" & "1A2"; green "74M")
   - Tundra Swan - 44
   - Wood Duck - 83
   - Gadwall - 520
   - American Wigeon - 7
   - American Black Duck - 32
   - Mallard - 489
   - Blue-winged Teal - 21
   - Northern Shoveler - 65
   - Northern Pintail - 20
   - Green-winged Teal - 217
   - Canvasback - 2
   - Redhead - 320
   - Ring-necked Duck - 126
   - Greater Scaup - 21
   - Lesser Scaup - 4,060
   - Bufflehead - 79
   - Common Goldeneye - 1
   - Hooded Merganser - 44
   - Common Merganser - 121
   - Red-breasted Merganser - 3
   - Ruddy Duck - 38
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 10
   - Horned Grebe - 1
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 8
   - Great Blue Heron - 19
   - Great Egret - 59
   - Turkey Vulture - 38
   - Bald Eagle - 21 (9 adult,12 immature - 9 nests on refuge: 6 active, 2 unknown, 1 taken over by Great Horned Owl)
   - Northern Harrier - 4
   - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 5
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 12
   - Rough-legged Hawk - 2 (light phase)
   - Golden Eagle - 1 (immature)
   - American Coot - 292
   - Sandhill Crane - 5
   - KIlldeer - 30
   - Greater Yellowlegs - 14
   - Lesser Yellowlegs - 5
   - Dunlin - 35
   - American Woodcock - 3
   - Bonaparte's Gull - 136
   - Ring-billed Gull - 168
   - Herring Gull - 33
   - Great Black-backed Gull - 1
   - Forster's Tern - 1
   - Rock Pigeon - 3
   - Mourning Dove - 29
   - Great Horned Owl - 5
   - Belted Kingfisher - 1
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11
   - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
   - Downy Woodpecker - 10
   - Northern Flicker - 18
   - American Kestrel - 3
   - Eastern Phoebe - 5
   - Blue-headed Vireo - 1
   - Blue Jay - 16
   - American Crow - 16
   - Horned Lark - 36
   - Tree Swallow - 95
   - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4
   - Barn Swallow - 1
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 14
   - Tufted Titmouse - 3
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 9
   - Brown Creeper - 2
   - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 15
   - Eastern Bluebird - 1
   - Hermit Thrush - 4
   - American Robin - 279
   - Brown Thrasher - 1
   - European Starling - 108
   - Lapland Longspur - 48
   - American Tree Sparrow - 25
   - Chipping Sparrow - 2
   - Field Sparrow - 5
   - Vesper Sparrow - 2
   - Savannah Sparrow - 3
   - Fox Sparrow - 6
   - Song Sparrow - 48
   - Swamp Sparrow - 2
   - White-throated Sparrow - 5
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 14
   - Northern Cardinal - 28
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 1,113
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 1
   - Rusty Blackbird - 77
   - Common Grackle - 157
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 55
   - House Finch - 12
   - American Goldfinch - 2
   - House Sparrow - 20
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
   - Northern Water Snake - 1

   - Eastern Garter Snake - 1
BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.
   - Mourning Cloak - 2

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.



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