FEBRUARY 06, 2022 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: East and West sides (except where drifting snow made it
inaccessible) and Western Prairies in the morning;
Auto Tour area in the afternoon, except where snowdrifts turned us back.
TIME: 7:45am - 12:00pm; 1:00pm - 4:10pm  TEMP.: 17F ~ 31F  COND.: Cold and
sunny with blue skies; winds south
and steady all day at 5-15mph; snow cover about 4-inches to 6-inches,
except where drifted; all impoundments, canals,
and ditches frozen; very little open water - one open lead at Metzger
Marsh, one open lead at the Crane Creek mudflats,
and a large open lead in Lake Erie, but at least a half-mile (or more?) out.
OBS. EAST: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Mary
Appold (sic?), Katie Clink, Donna Kuhn,
George Novosel, Chris Pierce.  OBS. WEST PRAIRIES: Douglas W. Vogus.
OBS. AFTERNOON: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 5
   2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6
   3. Meadow Vole - 1
   4. Common Muskrat - 1
   5. Coyote - 2  (one seen on Lake Erie & one heard howling in field south
   of Butternut Woods - Tied Census High from 03/2008, 01/2018, 02/2018 &
   02/2020)
   6. Common Raccoon - 1
   7. Northern River Otter - 1  (First February Record on Census & Tied
   Census High from 11/2010)
   8. White-tailed Deer - 11 (does)


II. BIRDS: 56 SPECIES, 3,270 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Canada Goose - 227
   2. Mute Swan - 2
   3. Trumpeter Swan - 39
   4. Tundra Swan - 1,540
   5. Canvasback - 1
   6. Redhead - 60
   7. Lesser Scaup - 3
   8. Common Goldeneye - 1
   9. Common Merganser - 82
   10. Mourning Dove - 34
   11. Sandhill Crane - 30
   12. Ring-billed Gull - 68
   13. Herring Gull - 6
   14. Great Blue Heron - 21  (plus one dead on the canal ice being
   scavenged by a Red-tailed Hawk)
   15. Northern Harrier - 5
   16. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
   17. Cooper's Hawk - 1
   18. Bald Eagle - 14 (6 adult,8 immature)
   19. Red-tailed Hawk - 6
   20. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (dark morph)  (same bird since December?)
   21. Great Horned Owl - 3  (one nesting on abandoned eagle nest)
   22. Long-eared Owl - 1
   23. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1  (adult in Butternut Woods)
   24. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
   25. Downy Woodpecker - 11
   26. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
   27. Northern Flicker - 1
   28. American Kestrel - 4
   29. Northern Shrike - 1
   30. Blue Jay - 22
   31. American Crow - 2
   32. Horned Lark - 20
   33. Black-capped Chickadee - 4
   34. Tufted Titmouse - 1
   35. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
   36. Brown Creeper - 1
   37. Winter Wren - 2
   38. Carolina Wren - 2
   39. American Robin - 9
   40. European Starling - 42
   41. House Sparrow - 41
   42. Evening Grosbeak - 1  (solo fly-over headed north over Grimm Prairie
   - Third February Record on Census)
   43. House Finch - 6
   44. American Goldfinch - 9
   45. American Tree Sparrow - 217
   46. Dark-eyed Junco - 13
   47. White-throated Sparrow - 1
   48. Savannah Sparrow - 3  (plus one dead - two together along Krause
   Rd., one under the feeder at the house on corner of Krause Rd. & Stange
   Rd.; one dead at the observation deck on Stange Rd.)
   49. Song Sparrow - 22
   50. Swamp Sparrow - 6
   51. Eastern Meadowlark - 1
   52. Red-winged Blackbird - 339
   53. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16
   54. Rusty Blackbird - 56
   55. Common Grackle - 229
   56. Northern Cardinal - 29


Compiler: Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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