JANUARY 01, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 7:30am - 12:00pm;1:50pm
- 4:45pm
TEMP.: 26~42 COND.: Chilly early, turning sunny with blue skies. No snow cover.
Most ditches,
canals & impoundments were ice-covered; MS5 had some open water; Crane Creek
was ice-free
as was Lake Erie. OBS. EAST: Eddie Pausch, Chris Pierce, Jim Reyda, and Al &
Betty Schlecht.
OBS. WEST: Tom & Paula Bartlett, Katie Clink, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Ed
Pierce, and
Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.

   1. Virginia Opossum - 2
   2. Eastern Cottontail - 2
   3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 7
   4. White-footed Mouse - 11
   5. Meadow Vole - 1
   6. White-tailed Deer - 3 (1 spike buck missing one antler,2 doe)


II. BIRDS: 66 SPECIES.


   1. Canada Goose - 1,631
   2. Mute Swan - 3
   3. Trumpeter Swan - 31
   4. Tundra Swan - 2,903
   5. American Wigeon - 4
   6. American Black Duck - 28
   7. Mallard - 821
   8. Northern Pintail - 5
   9. Canvasback - 350
   10. Redhead - 2
   11. Greater Scaup - 2
   12. Lesser Scaup - 2,417
   13. Common Goldeneye - 68
   14. Hooded Merganser - 3
   15. Common Merganser - 27
   16. Red-breasted Merganser - 21
   17. Ruddy Duck - 1
   18. Mourning Dove - 38
   19. Sandhill Crane - 96
   20. Ring-billed Gull - 4,366
   21. Herring Gull - 247
   22. Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1
   23. Great Black-backed Gull - 4
   24. Great Blue Heron - 47
   25. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 4 (immatures)
   26. Bald Eagle - 22 (8 adult,14 immature)
   27. Northern Harrier - 10
   28. Cooper's Hawk - 1
   29. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
   30. Red-tailed Hawk - 18
   31. Rough-legged Hawk - 1
   32. Eastern Screech-Owl - 2
   33. Great Horned Owl - 1
   34. Long-eared Owl - 6
   35. Short-eared Owl - 2
   36. Red-headed Woodpecker - 7
   37. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 23
   38. Downy Woodpecker - 41
   39. Hairy Woodpecker - 8
   40. Northern Flicker - 5
   41. American Kestrel - 1
   42. Blue Jay - 103
   43. American Crow - 1
   44. Horned Lark - 4
   45. Black-capped Chickadee - 17
   46. Tufted Titmouse - 11
   47. White-breasted Nuthatch - 20
   48. Brown Creeper - 6
   49. Winter Wren - 1
   50. Carolina Wren - 2
   51. American Robin - 37
   52. European Starling - 76
   53. House Sparrow - 40
   54. House Finch - 1
   55. American Goldfinch - 79
   56. Lapland Longspur - 1
   57. American Tree Sparrow - 339
   58. Song Sparrow - 22
   59. Swamp Sparrow - 13
   60. White-crowned Sparrow - 1
   61. Dark-eyed Junco - 47
   62. Northern Cardinal - 61
   63. Red-winged Blackbird - 78
   64. Eastern Meadowlark - 3
   65. Common Grackle - 1
   66. Brown-headed Cowbird - 56

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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