NOVEMBER 03, 2019 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: East and West sides in the morning and "Auto Tour" area in the afternoon. TIME: 8:00am - 12:05pm; 1:35pm - 5:25pm A.M. TEMP.: 34 ~ 45 P.M. TEMP.: 46 COND.: Mostly cloudy, winds W/NW at 5-10mph. OBS. MORNING: Susan Brauning, Katie Clink, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob Bartolotta, Susan Brauning, Claire Johnson, Donna Kuhn, Jim Reyda, Kaeth Shaughnessy, Ray Stewart, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 2 2. Woodchuck - 1 (First November Record on Census) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 11 4. Common Raccoon - 1 5. White-tailed Deer - 11 (8-pt. buck, two 6-pt. bucks, 8 does) II. BIRDS: 88 SPECIES, 9,691 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Snow Goose - 26 2. Canada Goose - 396 3. Trumpeter Swan - 136 (neckbands: "74M - green"; "1A2 - yellow"; "3A8 - yellow") 4. Tundra Swan - 1,537 5. Wood Duck - 50 6. Gadwall - 959 7. American Wigeon - 97 8. American Black Duck - 36 9. Mallard - 1,300 10. Blue-winged Teal - 1 11. Northern Shoveler - 32 12. Northern Pintail - 153 13. Green-winged Teal - 56 14. Lesser Scaup - 6 15. Bufflehead - 5 16. Common Goldeneye - 1 17. Hooded Merganser - 61 18. Common Merganser - 1 19. Ruddy Duck - 40 20. Pied-billed Grebe - 29 21. Mourning Dove - 35 22. Common Gallinule - 1 (Second November Record on Census) 23. American Coot - 217 24. Sandhill Crane - 16 25. Killdeer - 22 26. Dunlin - 284 27. Least Sandpiper - 7 28. Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 29. Long-billed Dowitcher - 5 30. Greater Yellowlegs - 5 31. Lesser Yellowlegs - 18 32. Bonaparte's Gull - 98 33. Ring-billed Gull - 93 34. Herring Gull - 6 35. Common Tern - 4 36. Forster's Tern - 7 37. Common Loon - 1 38. Double-crested Cormorant - 68 39. American White Pelican - 42 (Third November Record on Census) 40. Great Blue Heron - 70 41. Great Egret - 40 42. Snowy Egret - 2 (Second November Record on Census) 43. Bald Eagle - 11 (6 adult, 5 immature) 44. Northern Harrier - 2 45. Cooper's Hawk - 3 46. Red-tailed Hawk - 9 47. Eastern Screech-Owl - 3 (gray morphs) 48. Belted Kingfisher - 4 49. Red-headed Woodpecker - 7 50. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 51. Downy Woodpecker - 23 52. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 53. Northern Flicker - 4 54. American Kestrel - 2 55. Eastern Phoebe - 1 56. Blue Jay - 50 57. Horned Lark - 9 58. Tree Swallow - 76 59. Black-capped Chickadee - 13 60. Tufted Titmouse - 2 61. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 62. Brown Creeper - 10 63. Winter Wren - 1 64. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 10 65. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 66. Eastern Bluebird - 5 67. Hermit Thrush - 3 68. American Robin - 6 69. European Starling - 474 70. House Sparrow - 32 71. House Finch - 3 72. American Goldfinch - 27 73. American Tree Sparrow - 7 74. Chipping Sparrow - 1 75. Field Sparrow - 1 76. Savannah Sparrow - 3 (2 in Grimm Prairie & 1 in Stange Prairie) 77. Fox Sparrow - 4 78. Song Sparrow - 23 79. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 80. Swamp Sparrow - 8 81. White-throated Sparrow - 39 82. White-crowned Sparrow - 8 83. Dark-eyed Junco - 17 84. Northern Cardinal - 11 85. Red-winged Blackbird - 2,634 86. Rusty Blackbird - 58 87. Common Grackle - 64 88. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 Unidentified Ducks - 17 Unidentified Sparrow - 1 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 1 IV. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1 2. Eastern Comma - 1 (First November Record on Census) Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]