MARCH 06, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting.TIME: 8:00am-12:10pm; 1:30pm-5:40pm TEMP.: 32-44-34 COND.: Mostly cloudy; winds S at 5-10mph;no snow cover; all impoundments, ditches, canals & Lake Erie open.OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn (morning only), Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Beth Parker (morning only), Lisa Phelps (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
- Raccoon - 1
- Mink - 1
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
- White-footed Mouse - 9
- Muskrat - 4
- White-tailed Deer - 2 (8-pt. buck,1 doe)
II. BIRDS: 57 SPECIES.
- Greater White-fronted Goose - 13
- Snow Goose - 28 (16 blue morph,12 white morph)
- Canada Goose - 956
- Trumpeter Swan - 35 (2 with neckbands: green "74M" & yellow "1A2")
- Tundra Swan - 914
- Wood Duck - 11
- Gadwall - 185
- American Wigeon - 11
- American Black Duck - 38
- Mallard - 226
- Northern Shoveler - 45
- Northern Pintail - 44
- Green-winged Teal - 36
- Canvasback - 2
- Redhead - 1,500
- Ring-necked Duck - 53
- Greater Scaup - 6
- Lesser Scaup - 4,026
- Bufflehead - 15
- Common Goldeneye - 21
- Hooded Merganser - 70
- Common Merganser - 536
- Great Blue Heron - 5
- Bald Eagle - 16 (8 adult,8 immature)
- Northern Harrier - 4
- Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
- Cooper's Hawk - 1
- Red-tailed Hawk - 5
- Sandhill Crane - 20
- Killdeer - 2
- Ring-billed Gull - 580
- Herring Gull - 48
- Mourning Dove - 24
- Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph)
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
- Downy Woodpecker - 11
- Hairy Woodpecker - 1
- Blue Jay - 29
- American Crow - 25 (1 flock headed east)
- Horned Lark - 11
- Black-capped Chickadee - 6
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
- Brown Creeper - 2
- Eastern Bluebird - 1
- American Robin - 10
- European Starling - 11
- Lapland Longspur - 27
- American Tree Sparrow - 244
- Song Sparrow - 8
- White-throated Sparrow - 1
- Northern Cardinal - 43
- Red-winged Blackbird - 639
- Rusty Blackbird - 2
- Common Grackle - 123
- House Finch - 3
- American Goldfinch - 7
- House Sparrow - 58
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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