*DECEMBER 03, 2017* - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
*ROUTES*: East and West sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon.
*TIME*: 8:00am - 12:00pm; 2:00pm - 5:10pm.  *TEMP.*: 32 ~ 51 ~ 48
*COND.*: Chilly early, turning pleasant and sunny; no snow cover; all water
open except for some skim-ice in the ditches and canals.
*OBS. EAST*: Katie Clink, Ed Pierce.  *OBS. WEST*: Bob & Sara Crist,
Jennifer Keuhn, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty
Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus.
*OBS. AFTERNOON*: Bob Bartolotta, Bob & Sara Crist, Jennifer Keuhn, Donna
Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus, Sheryl Young.

*I. MAMMALS*: 4 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 1
   2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 10
   3. Common Muskrat - 4
   4. Common Raccoon - 1


*II. BIRDS*: 71 SPECIES, 6,267 INDIVIDUALS.

   1. Canada Goose - 526
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 31
   3. Tundra Swan - 3,099
   4. Wood Duck - 2
   5. Gadwall - 93
   6. American Wigeon - 9
   7. American Black Duck - 8
   8. Mallard - 682
   9. Blue-winged Teal - 1 (female)
   10. Northern Shoveler - 42
   11. Northern Pintail - 53
   12. Green-winged Teal - 179
   13. Ring-necked Duck - 4
   14. Lesser Scaup - 7
   15. Bufflehead - 1
   16. Common Goldeneye - 23
   17. Hooded Merganser - 38
   18. Common Merganser - 8
   19. Red-breasted Merganser - 24
   20. Pied-billed Grebe - 6
   21. Mourning Dove - 82
   22. Common Gallinule - 1
   23. American Coot - 302
   24. Sandhill Crane - 10
   25. Marbled Godwit - 1 (with an injured leg)  *(Correction to last
   month's census. We had 4 Hudsonian Godwits and 1 Marbled Godwit - not 5
   Hudsonian Godwits. Thanks to Paul Jacyk for photo confirmation of the
   Marbled Godwit, which our census group had trouble identifying due to
   fading light, sideways rain, and a tornado warning.)*
   26. Dunlin - 12
   27. Bonaparte's Gull - 43
   28. Ring-billed Gull - 134
   29. Herring Gull - 9
   30. Double-crested Cormorant - 8
   31. Great Blue Heron - 28
   32. Great Egret - 1
   33. Bald Eagle - 8 (5 adult,3 immature)
   34. Northern Harrier - 4
   35. Cooper's Hawk - 1
   36. Red-tailed Hawk - 13
   37. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph)
   38. Great Horned Owl - 1
   39. Snowy Owl - 1 (at the Ottawa NWR/Metzger Marsh fish gate)
   40. Belted Kingfisher - 2
   41. Red-headed Woodpecker - 5 (3 adult,2 immature)
   42. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10
   43. Downy Woodpecker - 21
   44. Hairy Woodpecker - 5
   45. Northern Flicker - 3
   46. Northern Shrike - 1
   47. Blue Jay - 40
   48. Horned Lark - 31
   49. Black-capped Chickadee - 11
   50. Tufted Titmouse - 2
   51. White-breasted Nuthatch - 16
   52. Brown Creeper - 2
   53. Winter Wren - 1
   54. Carolina Wren - 1
   55. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4
   56. Eastern Bluebird - 1
   57. American Robin - 1
   58. European Starling - 96
   59. House Sparrow - 47
   60. House Finch - 5
   61. American Goldfinch - 27
   62. Lapland Longspur - 74 (66 in Krause Rd. corn stubble field,8
   fly-overs)
   63. American Tree Sparrow - 156
   64. Song Sparrow - 28
   65. Swamp Sparrow - 3
   66. Dark-eyed Junco - 7
   67. Northern Cardinal - 16
   68. Red-winged Blackbird - 56
   69. Rusty Blackbird - 91
   70. Common Grackle - 4
   71. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4


*III. FISHES*: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Black Bullhead - 1 (caught by a Ring-billed Gull)


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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