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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