JANUARY 02, 2022 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: East and West sides and Western Prairies in the morning; Auto Tour backside in the afternoon.
TIME: 7:40am - 12:20pm TEMP.: 29f ~ 26F COND.: Overnight and early drizzle turned to icy conditions with
a dusting of snow cover ending around 8:00am; cloudy all day with winds north at 5-15mph; all impoundments
open, but shallowest ones starting to freeze; Lake Erie open, muddy, and very choppy.
OBS. EAST: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Tom & Paula Bartlett, Katie Clink, Andy
Jones, Donna Kuhn, David & Kim Myles, George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Tony Szilagye.
OBS. WEST PRAIRIES: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
- Northern Short-tailed Shrew - 1 (Tied Census High from 11/2017, 12/2020 & 01/2021)
- Eastern Cottontail - 4
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 14
- Meadow Vole - 10
- Common Raccoon - 1
- White-tailed Deer - 7 (does)
II. BIRDS: 58 SPECIES, 13,641 TOTAL BIRDS. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)
- Greater White-fronted Goose - 50 (New Census High - previous was 38 on 12/2021)
- Canada Goose - 1,888
- Trumpeter Swan - 201 (one with yellow neckband "1A2")
- Tundra Swan - 3,483
- Northern Shoveler - 63
- Gadwall - 231
- American Wigeon - 2
- American Black Duck - 115
- Mallard - 4,985
- Northern Pintail - 708
- Green-winged Teal - 11
- Canvasback - 8
- Lesser Scaup - 8
- Bufflehead - 14
- Common Goldeneye - 36
- Hooded Merganser - 24
- Common Merganser - 516
- Red-breasted Merganser - 12
- Mourning Dove - 32
- Sandhill Crane - 38
- Ring-billed Gull - 411
- Herring Gull - 49
- Double-crested Cormorant - 1
- Great Blue Heron - 28
- Northern Harrier - 10
- Cooper's Hawk - 1
- Bald Eagle - 21 (10 adult, 11 immature)
- Red-tailed Hawk - 19
- Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (dark morph)
- Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (calling)
- Great Horned Owl - 3
- Long-eared Owl - 1
- Belted Kingfisher - 1
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7
- Downy Woodpecker - 14
- Hairy Woodpecker - 1
- American Kestrel - 3
- Blue Jay - 12
- Horned Lark - 1
- Black-capped Chickadee - 3
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 6
- Brown Creeper - 1
- Winter Wren - 2
- Carolina Wren - 1
- American Robin - 1
- European Starling - 192
- House Sparrow - 12
- House Finch - 4
- American Goldfinch - 20
- American Tree Sparrow - 105
- Dark-eyed Junco - 5
- Song Sparrow - 7
- Swamp Sparrow - 2
- Eastern Meadowlark - 3
- Red-winged Blackbird - 1
- Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
- Rusty Blackbird - 1
- Northern Cardinal - 35
Unidentified Swan Species - 8
Unidentified Duck Species - 220 (distant flocks too high or too distant to identify)
Unidentified Sparrow Species - 1 (Grimm Prairie)
Compiler: Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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