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.

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