FEBRUARY 05, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: Usual morning and afternoon routes (east & west sides in the
morning, back side in the afternoon). TIME: 8:00am - 12:40pm; 1 :55pm -
5:50pm TEMP.: 24 ~ 35 ~ 32
COND.: Cold early turning mostly sunny; wind W at 5-10mph; no snow cover;
most impoundments frozen - some up to 30% open; all canals & ditches
frozen; Crane Creek frozen; Crane Creek Estuary had some open water; Lake
Erie ice-free. OBS. EAST: Katie Clink, Ed Pierce. OBS. WEST: Donna Kuhn,
James Muller, Dave & Kim Myles, Jacob Raber, Jim Reyda, Tony Szilagye,
Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob Bartolatta, Claire Johnson, Jim
Koppen, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES.

   1. Virginia Opossum - 1
   2. Eastern Cottontail - 5
   3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
   4. White-footed Mouse - 1
   5. Meadow Vole - 7
   6. Common Muskrat - 2
   7. Coyote - 1
   8. White-tailed Deer - 5

II. BIRDS: 51 SPECIES, 8,802 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Snow Goose - 2 (blue morph)
   2. Canada Goose - 3,243
   3. Mute Swan - 4
   4. Trumpeter Swan - 68 (neckbands: "A8O - yellow", "1CO" - yellow, &
   "unknown - yellow")
   5. Tundra Swan - 1,574
   6. Gadwall - 11
   7. American Wigeon - 3
   8. American Black Duck - 18
   9. Mallard - 65
   10. Bufflehead - 1 (m)
   11. Common Merganser - 273 (very few females)
   12. Red-breasted Merganser - 12
   13. Rock Pigeon - 1
   14. Mourning Dove - 39
   15. Sandhill Crane - 12
   16. Killdeer - 1
   17. Ring-billed Gull - 167
   18. Herring Gull - 26
   19. Great Blue Heron - 39
   20. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (immature)
   21. Bald Eagle - 20 (8 adult,12 immature)
   22. Northern Harrier - 5
   23. Cooper's Hawk - 1
   24. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
   25. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph)
   26. Great Horned Owl - 4
   27. Northern Saw-whet Owl - 2 (in the pines at the Sportsmen's Migratory
   Bird Center at Magee Marsh/eastern border of Ottawa NWR)
   28. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
   29. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8
   30. Downy Woodpecker - 9
   31. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
   32. Northern Flicker - 1
   33. American Kestrel - 1
   34. Northern Shrike - 1
   35. Blue Jay - 36
   36. Horned Lark - 118
   37. Black-capped Chickadee - 8
   38. Tufted Titmouse - 4
   39. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7
   40. Brown Creeper - 1
   41. American Robin - 11
   42. European Starling - 364
   43. House Sparrow - 55
   44. American Goldfinch - 71
   45. American Tree Sparrow - 147
   46. Song Sparrow - 1
   47. Dark-eyed Junco - 14
   48. Northern Cardinal - 14
   49. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,934
   50. Common Grackle - 125
   51. Brown-headed Cowbird - 159


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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