*NOVEMBER 04, 2018 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.*
*ROUTES*: East and West sides in the morning; Back side in the afternoon.
*TIME*: 8:00am - 12:00pm; 1:40pm - 5:25pm  *TEMP.*: 45 ~ 54
*COND.*: Cloudy to mostly cloudy, winds E/SE at 5-10mph; water high and
fields flooded from steady rain earlier in the week; Lake Erie waves 2-4
feet.
*OBS.EAST*: Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht.  *OBS.WEST*: Mary Applegate,
Doug Brockway, Katie Clink, Dave & Kim Myles, Ed Pierce, Willard Sollinger,
Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus.
*OBS.AFTERNOON*: Bob Bartolotta, Sue Evanoff, Rob & Sandy Harlan, Claire
Johnson, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Su Snyder, Douglas W. Vogus.

*I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.*


   1. Eastern Cottontail - 2
   2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 20
   3. White-tailed Deer - 11


*II. BIRDS: 82 SPECIES, 10,568 INDIVIDUALS.*


   1. Canada Goose - 469
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 215  (New Census High - previous was 165 on 06/2017)
   3. Tundra Swan - 119
   4. Wood Duck - 39
   5. Gadwall - 1,078
   6. American Wigeon - 2
   7. American Black Duck - 42
   8. Mallard - 1,198
   9. Northern Shoveler - 4
   10. Northern Pintail - 250
   11. Green-winged Teal - 37
   12. Lesser Scaup - 2
   13. Hooded Merganser - 2
   14. Ruddy Duck - 4
   15. Pied-billed Grebe - 52
   16. Horned Grebe - 1
   17. Mourning Dove - 52
   18. American Coot - 12
   19. Sandhill Crane - 26
   20. Hudsonian Godwit - 1
   21. Dunlin - 161
   22. American Woodcock - 2
   23. Greater Yellowlegs - 4
   24. Lesser Yellowlegs - 3
   25. Bonaparte's Gull - 105
   26. Ring-billed Gull - 149
   27. Herring Gull - 25
   28. Caspian Tern - 1
   29. Common Tern - 3
   30. Double-crested Cormorant - 158
   31. American White Pelican - 1
   32. Great Blue Heron - 48
   33. Great Egret - 61
   34. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
   35. Turkey Vulture - 1
   36. Bald Eagle - 14 (9 adult,5 immature)
   37. Northern Harrier - 3
   38. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
   39. Cooper's Hawk - 3
   40. Red-tailed Hawk - 14
   41. Great Horned Owl - 1
   42. Belted Kingfisher - 3
   43. Red-headed Woodpecker - 5
   44. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11
   45. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
   46. Downy Woodpecker - 22
   47. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
   48. Northern Flicker - 2
   49. American Kestrel - 3
   50. Merlin - 1
   51. Northern Shrike - 1
   52. Blue Jay - 55
   53. American Crow - 1
   54. Horned Lark - 9
   55. Black-capped Chickadee - 3
   56. Tufted Titmouse - 3
   57. White-breasted Nuthatch - 12
   58. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4
   59. Eastern Bluebird - 2
   60. Hermit Thrush - 2
   61. American Robin - 56
   62. Northern Mockingbird - 1
   63. European Starling - 751
   64. House Sparrow - 34
   65. American Pipit - 4
   66. House Finch - 9
   67. Pine Siskin - 3
   68. American Goldfinch - 65
   69. Magnolia Warbler - 1  (First November Record on Census)
   70. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
   71. American Tree Sparrow - 32
   72. Field Sparrow - 1
   73. Fox Sparrow - 4
   74. Song Sparrow - 16
   75. Swamp Sparrow - 10
   76. White-throated Sparrow - 37
   77. Dark-eyed Junco - 18
   78. Northern Cardinal - 36
   79. Red-winged Blackbird - 4,062
   80. Rusty Blackbird - 62
   81. Common Grackle - 577
   82. Brown-headed Cowbird - 78

Unidentified Ducks - 202

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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