JANUARY 04, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-4:00pm TEMP.: 37-32COND.: Overcast & gray; wind W/SW 5-15mph; most impoundments frozen; some open water on MS5; Lake Erie open;no snow cover. OBS.: Tom & Paula Bartlett, Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn (morning only), Brian & Tyler McClain (afternoon only), Dave Myles (morning only), Eddie Pausch (morning only), Chris Pierce (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus, Jack & Janet Volker (morning only).I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2

   - White-footed Mouse - 24
   - Meadow Vole - 1
   - Muskrat - 1
   - Eastern Cottontail - 2
   - White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe)
BIRDS: 58 SPECIES.
   - Snow Goose - 1 (white morph)

   - Canada Goose - 1,048
   - Mute Swan - 3
   - Trumpeter Swan - 19 (2 neckbands: green "74M" & yellow "1A2")
   - Tundra Swan - 1,953
   - Gadwall - 38
   - American Wigeon - 1
   - American Black Duck - 68
   - Mallard - 1,686
   - Northern Shoveler - 15
   - Northern Pintail - 8
   - Hooded Merganser - 2
   - Common Merganser - 215
   - Red-breasted Merganser - 24
   - Horned Grebe - 1
   - Great Blue Heron - 29
   - Bald Eagle - 18 (8 adult, 10 immature - 7 nests on refuge)
   - Northern Harrier - 7
   - Cooper's Hawk - 2
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 14
   - American Coot - 1
   - Sandhill Crane - 12
   - Ring-billed Gull - 519
   - Herring Gull - 160
   - Mourning Dove - 4
   - Eastern Screech-Owl - 7
   - Great Horned Owl - 8
   - Short-eared Owl - 1
   - Belted Kingfisher - 1
   - Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12
   - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
   - Downy Woodpecker - 21
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 7
   - Northern Flicker - 3
   - American Kestrel - 1
   - Northern Shrike - 1
   - Blue Jay - 33
   - Tree Swallow - 4
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 2
   - Tufted Titmouse - 3
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 9
   - Brown Creeper - 7
   - Winter Wren - 1
   - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
   - Hermit Thrush - 1
   - American Robin - 6
   - European Starling - 3
   - Snow Bunting - 24
   - American Tree Sparrow - 50
   - Song Sparrow - 8
   - Swamp Sparrow - 4
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 12
   - Northern Cardinal - 20
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 84
   - House Finch - 2
   - American Goldfinch - 30
   - House Sparrow - 28
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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