*NOVEMBER 05, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.*
*ROUTES*: Usual morning and afternoon routes (east and west sides in the
morning, back side in the afternoon.)  *TIME*: 8:00am - 12:00pm; 1:25pm -
4:30pm  *TEMP.*: 59 ~ 70 ~ 64
*COND.*: Overcast and gray, front from the west; incoming storms at
12:30pm, turning very dark, high winds from W/SW and steady rain, downpours
at times, with very poor
visibility, lightning, thunder, and a tornado warning.  *OBS. EAST*: Jim
Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht.  *OBS. WEST*: Katie Clink, Amy Didion, Jimmy
Joyce, Jim Koppen, Kathy Kretz,
Dave & Kim Myles, Ed Pierce, Douglas W. Vogus.  *OBS. AFTERNOON*: Ed
Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

*I. MAMMALS*: 6 SPECIES.

   1. Northern Short-tailed Shrew - 1
   2. Eastern Cottontail - 1
   3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 7
   4. Common Muskrat - 2
   5. Mink - 1
   6. White-tailed Deer - 5 (doe)


*II. BIRDS*: 74 SPECIES, 5,559 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Snow Goose - 23 (22 blue,1 white)  *(one flock headed west - seen
   from Krause Rd.)*
   2. Canada Goose - 546
   3. Trumpeter Swan - 41  *(one with yellow neckband, bird flying, too far
   away to read)*
   4. Tundra Swan - 62
   5. Wood Duck - 98
   6. Gadwall - 460
   7. American Wigeon - 6
   8. American Black Duck - 10
   9. Mallard - 564
   10. Blue-winged Teal - 8
   11. Northern Shoveler - 15
   12. Northern Pintail - 26
   13. Green-winged Teal - 16
   14. Ring-necked Duck - 73
   15. Hooded Merganser - 17
   16. Ruddy Duck - 6
   17. Pied-billed Grebe - 22
   18. Horned Grebe - 2  *(in Lake Erie at the Ottawa fish gate)*
   19. Mourning Dove - 19
   20. American Coot - 9
   21. Sandhill Crane - 10
   22. Killdeer - 31
   23. Hudsonian Godwit - 5  *(in MS5 - thanks to Paul Jacyk for this
   find!)*
   24. Dunlin - 151
   25. Least Sandpiper - 3
   26. Long-billed Dowitcher - 18  *(13 along Krause Rd. & 5 in MS5 with
   the godwits)*
   27. Wilson's Snipe - 1  *(flushed from Stange Prairie)*
   28. Greater Yellowlegs - 13
   29. Lesser Yellowlegs - 18
   30. Bonaparte's Gull - 564
   31. Ring-billed Gull - 920
   32. Herring Gull - 23  *(11 second-year birds)*
   33. Double-crested Cormorant - 83
   34. Great Blue Heron - 56
   35. Great Egret - 37
   36. Bald Eagle - 6 (5 adult,1 immature)
   37. Northern Harrier - 2
   38. Cooper's Hawk - 2
   39. Red-tailed Hawk - 11
   40. Great Horned Owl - 1
   41. Belted Kingfisher - 2
   42. Red-headed Woodpecker - 6 (3 adult,3 immature)
   43. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 15
   44. Downy Woodpecker - 28
   45. Northern Flicker - 4
   46. Blue Jay - 114
   47. Horned Lark - 13
   48. Black-capped Chickadee - 17
   49. Tufted Titmouse - 5
   50. White-breasted Nuthatch - 12
   51. Brown Creeper - 2
   52. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 34
   53. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3
   54. American Robin - 1
   55. European Starling - 296
   56. Cedar Waxwing - 9
   57. House Sparrow - 31
   58. House Finch - 5
   59. Pine Siskin - 1  *(fly-over at Adam Grimm Prairie)*
   60. American Goldfinch - 44
   61. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3
   62. American Tree Sparrow - 32
   63. Field Sparrow - 1  *(hedgerow along Stange Prairie)*
   64. Savannah Sparrow - 1  *(Adam Grimm Prairie)*
   65. Song Sparrow - 31
   66. Swamp Sparrow - 14
   67. White-throated Sparrow - 21
   68. White-crowned Sparrow - 3
   69. Dark-eyed Junco - 26
   70. Northern Cardinal - 17
   71. Red-winged Blackbird - 641
   72. Rusty Blackbird - 100
   73. Common Grackle - 4
   74. Brown-headed Cowbird - 45


*III. REPTILES*: 3 SPECIES.

   1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1
   2. Northern Water Snake - 2
   3. Eastern Fox Snake - 1


*IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 3 SPECIES.

   1. Bullfrog - many
   2. Green Frog - 2
   3. Northern Leopard Frog - 14


*V. FISHES*: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Gizzard Shad - one large school
   2. Common Carp - 3


*VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 5 SPECIES.

   1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1
   2. Clouded Sulphur - 1
   3. Pearl Crescent - 1
   4. Red Admiral - 2
   5. Monarch - 1


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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