DECEMBER 06, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-5:30pmTEMP.: 26-48 COND.: Frost-covered with dense morning fog until 9:30am, then turning mostly sunny. No snow cover;all canals, impoundments & Lake Erie open. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles(morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Tony Szilagye (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
- Muskrat - 2
- White-tailed Deer - 6 (9-pt buck,5 does)
II. BIRDS: 58 SPECIES.
- Snow Goose - 2 (white morph)
- Canada Goose - 4,831
- Mute Swan - 1
- Trumpeter Swan - 35 (1 yellow neckband "3A8" & 1 yellow neckband un-readable)
- Tundra Swan - 2,588
- Gadwall - 817
- American Wigeon - 751
- American Black Duck - 93
- Mallard - 1,529 (1 leucistic)
- Northern Shoveler - 24
- Northern Pintail - 7
- Green-winged Teal - 20
- Redhead - 1
- Ring-necked Duck - 3
- Lesser Scaup - 2
- Common Goldeneye - 3
- Hooded Merganser - 71
- Red-breasted Merganser - 6
- Ruddy Duck - 1
- Pied-billed Grebe - 7
- Horned Grebe - 1
- Great Blue Heron - 40
- Bald Eagle - 9 (4 adult,5 immature)
- Northern Harrier - 3
- Cooper's Hawk - 1
- Red-tailed Hawk - 9
- American Coot - 23
- Sandhill Crane - 23
- Dunlin - 8
- Bonaparte's Gull - 12
- Ring-billed Gull - 473
- Herring Gull - 29
- Mourning Dove - 26
- Great Horned Owl - 2
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
- Downy Woodpecker - 10
- Hairy Woodpecker - 1
- Northern Flicker - 2
- American Kestrel - 2
- Northern Shrike - 1
- Blue Jay - 40
- Horned Lark - 3
- Black-capped Chickadee - 4
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 9
- Brown Creeper - 1
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
- American Robin - 70
- European Starling - 16
- Lapland Longspur - 39
- Snow Bunting - 3
- American Tree Sparrow - 125
- Song Sparrow - 6
- Swamp Sparrow - 1
- Dark-eyed Junco - 30
- Northern Cardinal - 31
- Red-winged Blackbird - 10
- American Goldfinch - 6
- House Sparrow - 57
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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