DECEMBER 04, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am - 12:00pm; 1:35pm - 5:15pm TEMP.: 37~43~39COND.: Cloudy, light south winds; no snow cover - all water open. OBS.: (Morning only): Katie Clink, Dave Myles, Al & Betty Schlecht, Tony Szilagye (partial); (All day): Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus.
I.MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
   
   - Virginia Opossum - 1   

   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6
   - Common Muskrat - 2
   - White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe)

II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES.
   
   - Canada Goose - 803   

   - Trumpeter Swan - 46
   - Tundra Swan - 346
   - Gadwall - 1,487
   - American Wigeon - 5
   - American Black Duck - 54
   - Mallard - 2,590
   - Northern Shoveler - 73
   - Northern Pintail - 116
   - Green-winged Teal - 5
   - Bufflehead - 38
   - Common Goldeneye - 4
   - Hooded Merganser - 4
   - Common Merganser - 18
   - Ruddy Duck - 15
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 5
   - Mourning Dove - 119
   - American Coot - 303
   - Sandhill Crane - 41
   - Killdeer - 9
   - Marbled Godwit - 3 (Moist Soil Unit 3)
   - Dunlin - 4 (Moist Soil Unit 3)
   - Bonaparte's Gull - 68
   - Ring-billed Gull - 257
   - Herring Gull - 11
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 4
   - Great Blue Heron - 64
   - Bald Eagle - 10 (4 adult,6 immature)
   - Northern Harrier - 7
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 10
   - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1
   - Great Horned Owl - 1
   - Long-eared Owl - 4
   - Red-headed Woodpecker - 6
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 17
   - Downy Woodpecker - 24
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 3
   - Northern Flicker - 4
   - American Kestrel - 2
   - Northern Shrike - 3 
   - Blue Jay - 44
   - Horned Lark - 18
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 13
   - Tufted Titmouse - 2
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 18
   - Brown Creeper - 3
   - Winter Wren - 2
   - Carolina Wren - 1
   - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
   - European Starling - 50
   - House Sparrow - 7
   - American Goldfinch - 12
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
   - American Tree Sparrow - 141
   - Fox Sparrow - 8
   - Song Sparrow - 10
   - Swamp Sparrow - 1
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 38
   - Northern Cardinal - 27
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 11

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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