NOVEMBER 06, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am - 12:00pm; 2:00pm - 5:45pm TEMP.: 38~64~62COND.: Cool early, turning sunny; winds N/NE at 5-10mph. OBS. (Morning Only): Katie Clink, Chris Crofts, Conner Crofts, Greg Hornstein, Dave & Kim Myles, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. (All Day): Bob Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Jim Koppin, Donna Kuhn, Katie-Ann McKlinsky,Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
- Eastern Cottontail - 1
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
- Common Muskrat - 1
- White-tailed Deer - 7
II. BIRDS: 90 SPECIES, 1 EXOTIC/ESCAPE.
- Greater White-fronted Goose - 9
- Domestic White Goose - 1 (Snow Goose-sized, swimming alone, no black on the wings)
- Canada Goose - 675
- Trumpeter Swan - 97 (green neckband "74M" & yellow neckband "1A2")
- Tundra Swan - 84
- Wood Duck - 34
- Gadwall - 494
- American Wigeon - 8
- American Black Duck - 24
- Mallard - 425
- Northern Shoveler - 78
- Northern Pintail - 10
- Green-winged Teal - 93
- Lesser Scaup - 2
- Bufflehead - 5
- Hooded Merganser - 19
- Ruddy Duck - 6
- Pied-billed Grebe - 31
- Mourning Dove - 107
- American Coot - 31
- Sandhill Crane - 15
- Killdeer - 64
- Hudsonian Godwit - 3 (all together on the eastern side of Moist Soil Unit 3)
- Dunlin - 21
- Wilson's Snipe - 5
- American Woodcock - 1
- Greater Yellowlegs - 15
- Lesser Yellowlegs - 10
- Bonaparte's Gull - 557
- Ring-billed Gull - 699
- Herring Gull - 10
- Double-crested Cormorant - 37
- American White Pelican - 15
- Great Blue Heron - 84
- Great Egret - 121
- Bald Eagle - 10 (5 adult,5 immature)
- Northern Harrier - 5
- Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
- Cooper's Hawk - 1
- Red-tailed Hawk - 12
- Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph)
- Great Horned Owl - 1
- Long-eared Owl - 2
- Belted Kingfisher - 1
- Red-headed Woodpecker - 6
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 17
- Downy Woodpecker - 35
- Hairy Woodpecker - 2
- Northern Flicker - 6
- American Kestrel - 1
- Peregrine Falcon - 2
- Northern Shrike - 1
- Eastern Phoebe - 1
- Blue Jay - 138
- American Crow - 17
- Horned Lark - 7
- Tree Swallow - 1
- Black-capped Chickadee - 15
- Tufted Titmouse - 6
- Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 12
- Brown Creeper - 4
- Winter Wren - 5
- Marsh Wren - 1
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 17
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3
- Eastern Bluebird - 4
- Hermit Thrush - 2
- American Robin - 10
- European Starling - 257
- House Sparrow - 83
- House Finch - 4
- Purple Finch - 4 (BSBO feeders)
- American Goldfinch - 115
- Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
- American Tree Sparrow - 117
- Chipping Sparrow - 1
- Field Sparrow - 1
- Savannah Sparrow - 1
- Fox Sparrow - 18
- Song Sparrow - 30
- Swamp Sparrow - 17
- White-throated Sparrow - 9
- White-crowned Sparrow - 16
- Dark-eyed Junco - 124
- Northern Cardinal - 44
- Red-winged Blackbird - 2,078
- Eastern Meadowlark - 4
- Rusty Blackbird - 13
- Common Grackle - 109
- Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
- Green Frog
IV. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
- Common Carp
V. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES.
- Cabbage Butterfly - 4
- Clouded Sulphur - 9
- Buckeye - 2
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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