APRIL 01, 2018 - 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 active eagle nests. TIME: 8:00am - 12:30pm; 2:30pm - 6:20pm TEMP.: 26 ~ 43 COND.: Mostly cloudy early, turning partly sunny; winds W/NW at 5-10mph; cloudy in the afternoon. OBS. EAST: Katie Clink, Ed Pierce. OBS. WEST: Donna Kuhn, Destiny Priest, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Virginia Opossum - 1 2. Eastern Cottontail - 3 3. Woodchuck - 1 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 5. Common Muskrat - 4 6. White-tailed Deer - 7 II. BIRDS: 81 SPECIES, 8,250 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Canada Goose - 277 2. Trumpeter Swan - 66 (neckbands: "green 74M" & "yellow 1A2") 3. Tundra Swan - 14 4. Wood Duck - 59 5. Gadwall - 608 6. American Wigeon - 18 7. American Black Duck - 20 8. Mallard - 224 9. Blue-winged Teal - 47 10. Northern Shoveler - 107 11. Northern Pintail - 13 12. Green-winged Teal - 285 13. Redhead - 14 14. Ring-necked Duck - 218 15. Lesser Scaup - 2,984 16. Bufflehead - 54 17. Common Goldeneye - 4 18. Hooded Merganser - 40 19. Common Merganser - 165 20. Red-breasted Merganser - 13 21. Pied-billed Grebe - 8 22. Horned Grebe - 1 23. Rock Pigeon - 3 24. Mourning Dove - 34 25. American Coot - 25 26. Sandhill Crane - 6 27. KIlldeer - 22 28. Wilson's Snipe - 18 29. Bonaparte's Gull - 4 30. Ring-billed Gull - 44 31. Herring Gull - 13 32. Double-crested Cormorant - 46 33. Great Blue Heron - 45 34. Great Egret - 70 35. Snowy Egret - 2 (3rd Record on April Census) 36. Turkey Vulture - 88 37. Bald Eagle - 23 (15 adult,8 immature) 38. Northern Harrier - 6 39. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 40. Cooper's Hawk - 2 41. Red-tailed Hawk - 25 42. Rough-legged Hawk - 3 (light morph) 43. Great Horned Owl - 2 (both birds on nests) 44. Belted Kingfisher - 3 45. Red-headed Woodpecker - 5 46. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 47. Downy Woodpecker - 9 48. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 49. Northern Flicker - 9 50. American Kestrel - 3 51. Eastern Phoebe - 7 52. Blue Jay - 21 53. American Crow - 2 54. Horned Lark - 3 55. Tree Swallow - 234 56. Barn Swallow - 1 57. Black-capped Chickadee - 6 58. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 59. Brown Creeper - 1 60. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 61. Hermit Thrush - 1 62. American Robin - 171 63. European Starling - 181 64. Cedar Waxwing - 9 (one flock) 65. House Sparrow - 34 66. House Finch - 4 67. American Goldfinch - 9 68. American Tree Sparrow - 122 69. Chipping Sparrow - 22 70. Field Sparrow - 2 71. Savannah Sparrow - 4 (Adam Grimm Prairie) 72. Fox Sparrow - 3 73. Song Sparrow - 119 74. Swamp Sparrow - 1 75. White-throated Sparrow - 1 76. Dark-eyed Junco - 30 77. Northern Cardinal - 26 78. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,276 79. Rusty Blackbird - 13 80. Common Grackle - 166 81. Brown-headed Cowbird - 6 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Garter Snake - 2 (Stange Prairie) IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Leopard Frog - 1 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 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]