MARCH 05, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: Usual morning and afternoon routes (east and west sides in the
morning, back side in the afternoon), except where closed due to eagle
nesting.
TIME: 8:00am - 12:10pm; 1:40pm - 6:00pm TEMP.: 25 ~ 46 COND.: Cold early,
winds E/NE at 5-15mph; turning mostly sunny and warmer. Most impoundments
about two-thirds open; Lake Erie ice-free. OBS. EAST: Steve Borgis, Bill
Ohlsen, Jim Reyda. OBS. WEST: Katie Clink, Brittany Daniels, Linda Katz,
Jennifer
Keuhn, Jim Koppen, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Sharon Newell, Ed Pierce,
Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob Bartolatta,
Katie Clink, Claire Johnson, Jennifer Keuhn, Jim Koppen, Donna Kuhn, Dave
Myles, Sharon Newell, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 5
   2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
   3. Common Muskrat - 2
   4. Mink - 1
   5. White-tailed Deer - 4


II. BIRDS: 72 SPECIES, 1 EXOTIC/ESCAPE, 8,952 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Greater White-fronted Goose - 20
   2. Snow Goose - 1 (white morph)
   3. Canada Goose - 876
   4. Mute Swan - 1
   5. Trumpeter Swan - 104 (neckband "3A8 - green)
   6. Tundra Swan - 1,346
   7. Wood Duck - 2
   8. Gadwall - 321
   9. American Wigeon - 67
   10. American Black Duck - 68
   11. Mallard - 1,405
   12. Northern Shoveler - 77
   13. Northern Pintail - 581
   14. Green-winged Teal - 274
   15. Redhead - 17
   16. Ring-necked Duck - 356
   17. Greater Scaup - 5
   18. Lesser Scaup - 30
   19. Bufflehead - 7
   20. Common Goldeneye - 8
   21. Hooded Merganser - 26
   22. Common Merganser - 134
   23. Red-breasted Merganser - 6
   24. Ruddy Duck - 12
   25. Pied-billed Grebe - 3
   26. Rock Pigeon - 2
   27. Mourning Dove - 17
   28. American Coot - 16
   29. Sandhill Crane - 36
   30. Killdeer - 121
   31. Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 (seen by Jim Koppen at the Boss Unit)
   32. American Woodcock - 1
   33. Ring-billed Gull - 359
   34. Herring Gull - 27
   35. Great Blue Heron - 26
   36. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (immature)
   37. Bald Eagle - 10 (6 adult,4 immature)
   38. Northern Harrier - 13
   39. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
   40. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
   41. Red-tailed Hawk - 22
   42. Great Horned Owl - 4 (3 nests)
   43. Long-eared Owl - 1
   44. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14
   45. Downy Woodpecker - 14
   46. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
   47. Northern Flicker - 2
   48. Northern Shrike - 1
   49. Blue Jay - 33
   50. American Crow - 15
   51. Horned Lark - 14
   52. Tree Swallow - 1
   53. Black-capped Chickadee - 7
   54. Tufted Titmouse - 4
   55. Eastern Bluebird - 2
   56. American Robin - 16
   57. European Starling - 124
   58. House Sparrow - 69
   59. House Finch - 2
   60. American Goldfinch - 6
   61. Lapland Longspur - 12 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
   62. American Tree Sparrow - 193
   63. Savannah Sparrow - 1 (Stange Prairie)
   64. Song Sparrow - 34
   65. White-throated Sparrow - 2
   66. Dark-eyed Junco - 59
   67. Northern Cardinal - 45
   68. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,703
   69. Eastern Meadowlark - 3 (2 in Adam Grimm Prairie & 1 in Stange
   Prairie)
   70. Rusty Blackbird - 16
   71. Common Grackle - 101
   72. Brown-headed Cowbird - 49

escape/exotic: Greylag Goose - 1 (in with a flock of 13 Canada Geese)

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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