APRIL 02, 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 for eagle nesting.
TIME: 8:00am - 12:20pm; 2:00pm - 6:30pm TEMP.: 35 ~ 61 ~ 56 COND.: Chilly
early, giving way to mostly sunny and warming; clouding up in the
afternoon and cooler. OBS. EAST: Chris Crofts, Conner Crofts, Lee Crofts,
Tony Szilagye. OBS. WEST: Katie Clink, Jim Koppen, Jennifer Kuehn,
Donna Kuhn, Sharon Newell, Lisa Phelps, Ed Pierce, Jacob Raber, Jim Reyda,
Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob Bartolotta, Katie Clink,
Claire Johnson, Jim Koppen, Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, Sharon Newell, Lisa
Phelps, Ed Pierce, Jacob Raber, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 9 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 6
   2. Woodchuck - 1
   3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6
   4. American Beaver - 1
   5. White-footed Mouse - 2
   6. Meadow Vole - 2
   7. Common Muskrat - 10
   8. Common Raccoon - 1
   9. White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe)


II. BIRDS: 91 SPECIES, 7,979 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Canada Goose - 347
   2. Mute Swan - 5
   3. Trumpeter Swan - 107 (neckbands: "74M - green" & "1A2 - yellow")
   4. Tundra Swan - 84
   5. Wood Duck - 88
   6. Gadwall - 335
   7. American Wigeon - 126
   8. American Black Duck - 8
   9. Mallard - 193
   10. Blue-winged Teal - 141
   11. Northern Shoveler - 244
   12. Northern Pintail - 42
   13. Green-winged Teal - 415
   14. Redhead - 32
   15. Ring-necked Duck - 135
   16. Lesser Scaup - 2,012
   17. Bufflehead - 51
   18. Hooded Merganser - 5
   19. Common Merganser - 23
   20. Red-breasted Merganser - 1
   21. Ruddy Duck - 29
   22. Pied-billed Grebe - 7
   23. Horned Grebe - 7
   24. Mourning Dove - 29
   25. Virginia Rail - 1
   26. American Coot - 90
   27. Sandhill Crane - 30
   28. American Golden-Plover - 94 (fly-over headed west)
   29. Killdeer - 45
   30. Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
   31. Wilson's Snipe - 21
   32. Greater Yellowlegs - 6
   33. Lesser Yellowlegs - 19
   34. Bonaparte's Gull - 43
   35. Ring-billed Gull - 19
   36. Herring Gull - 6
   37. Common Loon - 1
   38. Double-crested Cormorant - 6
   39. Great Blue Heron - 40
   40. Great Egret - 41
   41. Turkey Vulture - 88
   42. Bald Eagle - 7 (4 adult,3 immature)
   43. Northern Harrier - 5
   44. Red-tailed Hawk - 14
   45. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph - Stange Prairie)
   46. Great Horned Owl - 4
   47. Long-eared Owl - 2 (east end of Stange Prairie)
   48. Short-eared Owl - 7 (Stange Prairie)
   49. Belted Kingfisher - 1
   50. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12
   51. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
   52. Downy Woodpecker - 23
   53. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
   54. Northern Flicker - 26
   55. American Kestrel - 1
   56. Eastern Phoebe - 10
   57. Blue Jay - 36
   58. American Crow - 15
   59. Horned Lark - 13
   60. Tree Swallow - 185
   61. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
   62. Black-capped Chickadee - 10
   63. Tufted Titmouse - 5
   64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
   65. Brown Creeper - 3
   66. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
   67. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 38
   68. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
   69. Eastern Bluebird - 1
   70. American Robin - 219
   71. European Starling - 81
   72. House Sparrow - 29
   73. House Finch - 5
   74. American Goldfinch - 21
   75. Lapland Longspur - 396 (Adam Grimm Prairie/Krause Rd. area - most
   were fly-overs heading W/NW)
   76. American Tree Sparrow - 95
   77. Chipping Sparrow - 3
   78. Field Sparrow - 15
   79. Vesper Sparrow - 2 (one along Krause Rd. and one along Rt. 2)
   80. Fox Sparrow - 11
   81. Song Sparrow - 125
   82. Swamp Sparrow - 3
   83. White-throated Sparrow - 1
   84. White-crowned Sparrow - 4
   85. Dark-eyed Junco - 28
   86. Northern Cardinal - 65
   87. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,020
   88. Eastern Meadowlark - 2
   89. Rusty Blackbird - 149
   90. Common Grackle - 237
   91. Brown-headed Cowbird - 23


III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Midland Painted Turtle - 3
   2. Northern Water Snake - 1


IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES

   1. Northern Leopard Frog - many calling


V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - yes!


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Comma - 1


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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