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.
- Eastern Cottontail - 1
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 15
- Common Muskrat - 2
- White-tailed Deer - 2 (9-pt buck, 1 doe)
II. BIRDS: 62 SPECIES, 6,856 TOTAL BIRDS.
- Canada Goose - 605
- Trumpeter Swan - 136
- Tundra Swan - 1,688
- Wood Duck - 1
- Gadwall - 182
- American Black Duck - 8
- Mallard - 1,165
- Northern Shoveler - 28
- Northern Pintail - 26
- Green-winged Teal - 4
- Lesser Scaup - 10
- Bufflehead - 11
- Common Goldeneye - 44
- Hooded Merganser - 33
- Common Merganser - 1,695
- Red-breasted Merganser - 24
- Ruddy Duck - 31
- Mourning Dove - 4
- American Coot - 6
- Limpkin - 1 (First December Record on Census - Tied Census High from 09/01/2019)
- Sandhill Crane - 5
- Bonaparte's Gull - 12
- Ring-billed Gull - 568
- Herring Gull - 8
- Double-crested Cormorant - 30
- Great Blue Heron - 52
- Green Heron - 1 (First December Record on Census)
- Bald Eagle - 7 (4 adult, 3 immature)
- Northern Harrier - 3
- Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
- Cooper's Hawk - 2
- Red-tailed Hawk - 17
- Great Horned Owl - 1
- Red-headed Woodpecker - 7
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12
- Downy Woodpecker - 35
- Northern Flicker - 5
- American Kestrel - 3
- Northern Shrike - 1
- Blue Jay - 30
- Horned Lark - 2
- Black-capped Chickadee - 13
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 19
- Brown Creeper - 6
- Carolina Wren - 2
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3
- Eastern Bluebird - 5
- European Starling - 21
- House Sparrow - 60
- House Finch - 8
- American Goldfinch - 9
- Snow Bunting - 2
- American Tree Sparrow - 105
- Song Sparrow - 8
- Swamp Sparrow - 2
- White-throated Sparrow - 1
- Dark-eyed Junco - 25
- Northern Cardinal - 22
- Red-winged Blackbird - 11
- Rusty Blackbird - 20
- Common Grackle - 2
- Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
Unidentified Hawk Species - 1
III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
- Northern Leopard Frog - 1
Sorry so late as I was out of state - Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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