*JANUARY 07, 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.)
*TIME*: 8:00am - 11:50am; 1:30pm - 4:10pm  *TEMP.*: 0 ~ 19 ~ 17  *COND.*:
Frigid, cloudy, and windy; winds W/SW at 5-15mph at start, quickly shifting
to S for rest of day;
all impoundments, canals, and ditches frozen; Lake Erie frozen over in the
morning, winds opened up a large lead in the afternoon from Metzger Marsh
to Magee Marsh
in the afternoon.  *OBS. EAST*: Katie Clink, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda.  *OBS.
WEST*: Jenny Bowman, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, George Novosel, Douglas
W. Vogus.
*OBS. AFTERNOON*: Bob Bartolotta, Matt Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Nora
Kelly, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

*I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.*

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 8
   2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
   3. Coyote - 2
   4. Common Raccoon - 2
   5. White-tailed Deer - 29 (8-pt,8-pt,6-pt,4-pt,23 does,2 unknown)


*II. BIRDS: 43 SPECIES, 1,108 TOTAL BIRDS.*

   1. Canada Goose - 31
   2. Mute Swan - 8
   3. Tundra Swan - 1
   4. Lesser Scaup - 36
   5. Common Merganser - 57
   6. Mourning Dove - 38
   7. Ring-billed Gull - 68
   8. Herring Gull - 7
   9. Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1  (flying west over Lake Erie near the
   Metzger Marsh pier - Third Record on January Census)
   10. Great Blue Heron - 19
   11. Bald Eagle - 6 (4 adult,2 immature)
   12. Northern Harrier - 2
   13. Cooper's Hawk - 1
   14. Red-tailed Hawk - 10
   15. Rough-legged Hawk - 2  (light morph along Krause Rd. and dark morph
   along Ottawa-Lucas Rd.)
   16. Great Horned Owl - 1
   17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 7  (6 in the North Woods and 1 in Butternut
   Woods)
   18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14
   19. Downy Woodpecker - 14
   20. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
   21. American Kestrel - 1
   22. Blue Jay - 40
   23. Horned Lark - 25
   24. Black-capped Chickadee - 7
   25. Tufted Titmouse - 4
   26. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8
   27. Brown Creeper - 3
   28. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3
   29. Hermit Thrush - 1
   30. American Robin - 7
   31. European Starling - 22
   32. House Sparrow - 24
   33. House Finch - 4
   34. American Goldfinch - 51
   35. American Tree Sparrow - 93
   36. Song Sparrow - 6
   37. Swamp Sparrow - 2
   38. White-throated Sparrow - 2
   39. Dark-eyed Junco - 28
   40. Northern Cardinal - 27
   41. Red-winged Blackbird - 326
   42. Common Grackle - 73
   43. Brown-headed Cowbird - 27


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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