JANUARY 03, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-4:40pm.TEMP.: 28-33 COND.: Cloudy all day; no snow cover; most canals & smaller bodies of water frozen.Open areas on some of the larger impoundments; Lake Erie open; winds NW at 5-10mph.OBS.: Paula Bartlett, Tom Bartlett (morning only), Steve Cagan, Katie Clink (morning only),Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Chris Pierce (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, TonySzilagye (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. (NOTE: Four others that I did not get names from - contact Tom Bartlett for complete list.)I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
- Raccoon - 1
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
- White-footed Mouse - 1
- Muskrat - 2
- White-tailed Deer - 2 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES.
- Snow Goose - 3 (blue morph)
- Canada Goose - 1,335
- Trumpeter Swan - 8
- Tundra Swan - 2,875
- Wood Duck - 1
- Gadwall - 391
- American Wigeon - 4
- American Black Duck - 204
- Mallard - 3,694
- Northern Shoveler - 2
- Green-winged Teal - 2
- Redhead - 26
- Ring-necked Duck - 1 (injured female)
- Bufflehead - 1
- Common Goldeneye - 19
- Hooded Merganser - 12
- Common Merganser - 165
- Red-breasted Merganser - 92
- Pied-billed Grebe - 1
- Double-crested Cormorant - 1
- Great Blue Heron - 29
- Bald Eagle - 32 (14 adult,18 immature)
- Northern Harrier - 3
- Cooper's Hawk - 2
- Red-tailed Hawk - 16
- American Coot - 88
- Sandhill Crane - 29
- Killdeer - 1
- Bonaparte's Gull - 15
- Ring-billed Gull - 296
- Herring Gull - 74
- Mourning Dove - 54
- Eastern Screech-Owl - 4
- Great Horned Owl - 3
- Short-eared Owl - 3
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
- Downy Woodpecker - 29
- Northern Flicker - 2
- American Kestrel - 1
- Blue Jay - 59
- Horned Lark - 58
- Black-capped Chickadee - 10
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 17
- Winter Wren - 1
- Carolina Wren - 1
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
- American Robin - 1,053
- European Starling - 18
- Cedar Waxwing - 20
- Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
- American Tree Sparrow - 164
- Song Sparrow - 6
- Dark-eyed Junco - 2
- Northern Cardinal - 27
- Red-winged Blackbird - 1
- Eastern Meadowlark - 5
- Rusty Blackbird - 5
- Brown-headed Cowbird - 20
- American Goldfinch - 49
- House Sparrow - 33
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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