*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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