*MARCH 04, 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 for eagle
nesting.)
*TIME*: 8:00am - 12:30pm; 1:45pm - 6:30pm  *TEMP.*: 27F ~ 37F  *COND.*:
Chilly early, turning sunny with blue skies, but brisk; winds N/NW at
5-15mph;
Lake Erie and all impoundments open; ditches and canals with some skim ice;
no snow cover.
*OBS.EAST*: Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht.  *OBS.WEST*: Katie Clink, Julie
Heights, Donna Kuhn, James Muller, Dave & Kim Myles, Ed Pierce,
Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus.  *OBS.AFTERNOON*: Bob Bartolotta, Claire
Johnson, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

*I. MAMMALS*: 7 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 1
   2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6
   3. American Beaver - 1  (Tied Census High from 06/2014, 04/2017 &
   08/2017)
   4. White-footed Mouse - 2
   5. Common Muskrat - 4
   6. Common Raccoon - 2
   7. White-tailed Deer - 7


*II. BIRDS*: 67 SPECIES, 19,357 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Canada Goose - 452
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 76  (neckbands: "74M - green" & "1A2 - yellow")
   3. Tundra Swan - 782
   4. Wood Duck - 23
   5. Gadwall - 597
   6. American Wigeon - 70
   7. American Black Duck - 21
   8. Mallard - 216
   9. Northern Shoveler - 105
   10. Northern Pintail - 31
   11. Green-winged Teal - 81
   12. Redhead - 107
   13. Ring-necked Duck - 77
   14. Lesser Scaup - 3,332
   15. Bufflehead - 49
   16. Common Goldeneye - 79
   17. Hooded Merganser - 31
   18. Common Merganser - 96
   19. Red-breasted Merganser - 13
   20. Pied-billed Grebe - 5
   21. Rock Pigeon - 3
   22. Mourning Dove - 30
   23. American Coot - 3
   24. Sandhill Crane - 14
   25. KIlldeer - 35
   26. Wilson's Snipe - 6
   27. Ring-billed Gull - 137
   28. Herring Gull - 26
   29. Great Blue Heron - 34
   30. Bald Eagle - 14 (8 adult, 6 immature)
   31. Northern Harrier - 3
   32. Cooper's Hawk - 4
   33. Red-tailed Hawk - 11
   34. Rough-legged Hawk - 5  (all light morphs and together - swooping and
   diving at each other over the pine groves south of Krause Rd.)
   35. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1  (gray morph)
   36. Great Horned Owl - 2  (on nests)
   37. Short-eared Owl - 3  (at dusk - 2 on Magee Marsh causeway & 1 just
   north of B.S.B.O. along Magee Marsh entrance road)
   38. Red-headed Woodpecker - 4 (adults)
   39. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 17
   40. Downy Woodpecker - 18
   41. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
   42. Northern Flicker - 3
   43. Peregrine Falcon - 1  (immature male flying east above Krause Rd. -
   First March Record on Census)
   44. Blue Jay - 52
   45. American Crow - 11
   46. Horned Lark - 11
   47. Black-capped Chickadee - 7
   48. Tufted Titmouse - 6
   49. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6
   50. Brown Creeper - 3
   51. Eastern Bluebird - 5
   52. American Robin - 40
   53. European Starling - 1,780
   54. House Sparrow - 18
   55. House Finch - 5
   56. Pine Siskin - 4  (fly-overs & calling at corner of Stange Rd. &
   Krause Rd. - First March Record on Census)
   57. American Goldfinch - 7
   58. American Tree Sparrow - 136
   59. Song Sparrow - 79
   60. Swamp Sparrow - 1
   61. Dark-eyed Junco - 18
   62. Northern Cardinal - 29
   63. Red-winged Blackbird - 5,621
   64. Eastern Meadowlark - 2
   65. Rusty Blackbird - 458
   66. Common Grackle - 1,382
   67. Brown-headed Cowbird - 57

Unidentified Ducks - 3,180  (too high up or too far away to positively
identify species)

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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