APRIL 07, 2024 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTE: Boss Unit, East Side, West Side, and Western Prairies in the morning; Auto Tour area in the afternoon - except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 7:30am - 12:35pm; 1:40pm - 5:30pm TIME AFIELD: 8:55 TEMP.: 34F ~ 54F ~ 51F COND.: Cool early, turning sunny with east winds; mostly sunny in the afternoon. OBS. BOSS UNIT: George Novosel. OBS. EAST: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Ram & Pushpa Ganesan, Sam Ganesan, Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, David & Kim Myles, Megan Myles, George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Darleen Stigall, Tony Szilagye. OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AUTO TOUR: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 9 SPECIES, 54 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002) 1. Eastern Cottontail - 9 2. Woodchuck - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 13 4. American Beaver - 1 (Fourth April Record on Census & Tied Census High from 16 other occasions) 5. Meadow Vole - 3 6. Common Muskrat - 19 7. Common Raccoon - 2 8. Northern River Otter - 1 (Third Record on Census, First April Record on Census & Tied Census High from 11/2010 & 02/2022) 9. White-tailed Deer - 5 II. BIRDS: 88 SPECIES, 8,287 TOTAL. (Recorded since March 02, 1969) 1. Canada Goose - 496 2. Trumpeter Swan - 137 3. Wood Duck - 49 4. Blue-winged Teal - 133 5. Northern Shoveler - 122 6. Gadwall - 399 7. American Wigeon - 17 8. American Black Duck - 8 9. Mallard - 107 10. Northern Pintail - 22 11. Green-winged Teal - 314 12. Ring-necked Duck - 147 13. Greater Scaup - 2 14. Lesser Scaup - 2,411 15. Bufflehead - 24 16. Hooded Merganser - 4 17. Common Merganser - 19 18. Ruddy Duck - 1 19. Ring-necked Pheasant - 1 20. Pied-billed Grebe - 19 21. Mourning Dove - 26 22. Virginia Rail - 1 23. American Coot - 184 24. Sandhill Crane - 32 25. Killdeer - 31 26. Dunlin - 42 27. Pectoral Sandpiper - 419 28. Wilson's Snipe - 58 29. Greater Yellowlegs - 12 30. Lesser Yellowlegs - 2 31. Bonaparte's Gull - 26 32. Ring-billed Gull - 94 33. Herring Gull - 51 34. Forster's Tern - 3 (Fourth April Record on Census) 35. Double-crested Cormorant - 111 36. American White Pelican - 31 (Fifth April Record on Census) 37. Great Blue Heron - 37 38. Great Egret - 8 39. Turkey Vulture - 8 40. Northern Harrier - 4 41. Bald Eagle - 24 (15 adult,9 immature) 42. Red-tailed Hawk - 9 43. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph - caught a vole at Stange Prairie) 44. Great Horned Owl - 4 45. Red-headed Woodpecker - 4 46. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 17 47. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 48. Downy Woodpecker - 18 49. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 50. Northern Flicker - 46 51. American Kestrel - 3 52. Eastern Phoebe - 6 53. Blue Jay - 33 54. American Crow - 1 55. Black-capped Chickadee - 8 56. Tufted Titmouse - 5 57. Horned Lark - 3 58. Tree Swallow - 391 59. Purple Martin - 9 60. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 21 61. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 62. Brown Creeper - 1 63. Winter Wren - 1 64. Carolina Wren - 7 65. Brown Thrasher - 2 66. European Starling - 180 67. Eastern Bluebird - 3 68. Hermit Thrush - 1 69. American Robin - 97 70. House Sparrow - 20 71. House Finch - 4 72. American Goldfinch - 4 73. Lapland Longspur - 2 (Krause Rd.) 74. Field Sparrow - 9 75. Fox Sparrow - 12 76. American Tree Sparrow - 96 77. Dark-eyed Junco - 19 78. Savannah Sparrow - 1 (Grimm Prairie) 79. Song Sparrow - 115 80. Swamp Sparrow - 12 81. Eastern Towhee - 1 82. Eastern Meadowlark - 4 (two at Grimm Prairie & two at Henry Marsh) 83. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,232 84. Brown-headed Cowbird - 21 85. Rusty Blackbird - 32 86. Common Grackle - 124 87. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 88. Northern Cardinal - 55 ??. Unidentified Duck Species - 2 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES, 30 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002) 1. Map Turtle - 3 (First April Record on Census) 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 25 3. Northern Water Snake - 1 (Fifth April Record on Census) 4. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES, 15 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002) 1. Bullfrog - 3 2. Northern Leopard Frog - 12 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES, 8 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002) 1. Common Carp - 7 2. Blackstripe Topminnow - 1 (First April Record on Census) VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES, 4 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002) 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1 (Fourth April Record on Census) 2. Eastern Comma - 2 (Second April Record on Census) 3. Red Admiral - 1 (Second April Record on Census) Compiler: 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]