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. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]