DECEMBER 01, 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 - 12:00pm; 1:30pm - 4:30pm  TEMP.: 37F ~ 44F ~ 40F
COND.: Overcast and gray; previous nights rains resulted in flooded fields, high water in all ditches and canals; water rushing out of Crane Creek and into
Lake Erie; afternoon overcast and dark with some rain and thunder; winds SW at 10+mph.
OBS. MORNING: Katie Clink, Donna Kuhn, Zebedee Mullen, Dave & Kim Myles, George Novosel, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht.
OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Donna Kuhn, Zebedee Mullen, Jim Reyda.

I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
  1. Eastern Cottontail - 1
  2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 15
  3. Common Muskrat - 2
  4. White-tailed Deer - 2 (9-pt buck, 1 doe)

II. BIRDS: 62 SPECIES, 6,856 TOTAL BIRDS.
  1. Canada Goose - 605
  2. Trumpeter Swan - 136
  3. Tundra Swan - 1,688
  4. Wood Duck - 1
  5. Gadwall - 182
  6. American Black Duck - 8
  7. Mallard - 1,165
  8. Northern Shoveler - 28
  9. Northern Pintail - 26
  10. Green-winged Teal - 4
  11. Lesser Scaup - 10
  12. Bufflehead - 11
  13. Common Goldeneye - 44
  14. Hooded Merganser - 33
  15. Common Merganser - 1,695
  16. Red-breasted Merganser - 24
  17. Ruddy Duck - 31
  18. Mourning Dove - 4
  19. American Coot - 6
  20. Limpkin - 1  (First December Record on Census - Tied Census High from 09/01/2019)
  21. Sandhill Crane - 5
  22. Bonaparte's Gull - 12
  23. Ring-billed Gull - 568
  24. Herring Gull - 8
  25. Double-crested Cormorant - 30
  26. Great Blue Heron - 52
  27. Green Heron - 1  (First December Record on Census)
  28. Bald Eagle - 7 (4 adult, 3 immature)
  29. Northern Harrier - 3
  30. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
  31. Cooper's Hawk - 2
  32. Red-tailed Hawk - 17
  33. Great Horned Owl - 1
  34. Red-headed Woodpecker - 7
  35. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12
  36. Downy Woodpecker - 35
  37. Northern Flicker - 5
  38. American Kestrel - 3
  39. Northern Shrike - 1
  40. Blue Jay - 30
  41. Horned Lark - 2
  42. Black-capped Chickadee - 13
  43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 19
  44. Brown Creeper - 6
  45. Carolina Wren - 2
  46. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3
  47. Eastern Bluebird - 5
  48. European Starling - 21
  49. House Sparrow - 60
  50. House Finch - 8
  51. American Goldfinch - 9
  52. Snow Bunting - 2
  53. American Tree Sparrow - 105
  54. Song Sparrow - 8
  55. Swamp Sparrow - 2
  56. White-throated Sparrow - 1
  57. Dark-eyed Junco - 25
  58. Northern Cardinal - 22
  59. Red-winged Blackbird - 11
  60. Rusty Blackbird - 20
  61. Common Grackle - 2
  62. Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
Unidentified Hawk Species - 1

III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
  1. Northern Leopard Frog - 1

Sorry so late as I was out of state - Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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