NOVEMBER 05, 2023 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: East Side, Fox Unit, West Side, and Western Prairies in the morning; Wildlife Drive in the afternoon.
OBS. EAST: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. FOX UNIT: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht.
OBS. WEST: Katie Clink, Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, David & Kim Myles, Chris Pierce, Tony Szilagye.
OBS. WEST PRAIRIES: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Bob Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Jim Koppin,
Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.
TIME: 7:45am - 12:35pm; 1:55pm - 5:30pm TEMP.: 41F ~ 56F ~ 49F
COND.: Brisk and clear in the early part of the morning; large wall of fog rolling in off of Lake Erie at around 10:00am;
north winds pushed it south across the refuge, enveloping the entire area; low ceiling and very poor visibility. Fog
started to move out at about 12:25pm with some clearing before lunch; partly cloudy in the afternoon, but turning
foggy again from 4:45pm until end of census; visibility in the late afternoon along Lake Erie at less than 100 yards.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES, 35 TOTAL MAMMALS. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
- Woodchuck - 6 (Third November Record on Census)
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 15
- Common Muskrat - 1
- Common Raccoon - 1 (Fifth November Record on Census)
- White-tailed Deer - 12 (2 bucks,6 does,4?)
II. BIRDS: 92 SPECIES, 10,154 TOTAL BIRDS. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)
- Snow Goose - 3 (2 blue morph,1 immature)
- Canada Goose - 782
- Mute Swan - 9
- Trumpeter Swan - 362 (one with yellow neckband "1A2" - recorded since September of 2007)
- Tundra Swan - 2,247
- Wood Duck - 61
- Blue-winged Teal - 12
- Northern Shoveler - 45
- Gadwall - 1,106
- American Wigeon - 55
- American Black Duck - 47
- Mallard - 1,187
- Northern Pintail - 34
- Green-winged Teal - 108
- Canvasback - 4
- Ring-necked Duck - 22
- Greater Scaup - 1
- Lesser Scaup - 14
- Bufflehead - 16
- Common Goldeneye - 25
- Hooded Merganser - 21
- Ruddy Duck - 9
- Pied-billed Grebe - 10
- Mourning Dove - 10
- American Coot - 87
- Sandhill Crane - 43
- Killdeer - 16
- Semipalmated Plover - 1
- Dunlin - 553
- Long-billed Dowitcher - 14
- Wilson's Snipe - 1
- Greater Yellowlegs - 11
- Lesser Yellowlegs - 16
- Bonaparte's Gull - 112
- Ring-billed Gull - 113
- Herring Gull - 4
- Double-crested Cormorant - 4
- American White Pelican - 225
- Great Blue Heron - 82
- Great Egret - 64
- Cattle Egret - 1
- Northern Harrier - 5
- Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
- Cooper's Hawk - 4
- Bald Eagle - 11 (9 adult,2 immature)
- Red-tailed Hawk - 8
- Belted Kingfisher - 1
- Red-headed Woodpecker - 4
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13
- Downy Woodpecker - 14
- Hairy Woodpecker - 3
- Northern Flicker - 19
- American Kestrel - 1
- Merlin - 1 (Fifth November Record on Census)
- Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature female)
- Northern Shrike - 2 (one immature fighting with an adult bird)
- Blue Jay - 57
- Black-capped Chickadee - 4
- Horned Lark - 12
- Tree Swallow - 7
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4
- Cedar Waxwing - 12
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 9
- Brown Creeper - 1
- Carolina Wren - 2
- Marsh Wren - 1 (Fourth November Record on Census)
- Gray Catbird - 1 (Third November Record on Census)
- Northern Mockingbird - 1
- European Starling - 379
- Eastern Bluebird - 2
- American Robin - 53
- House Sparrow - 18
- House Finch - 10
- American Goldfinch - 78
- Lapland Longspur - 12 (Fourth November Record on Census)
- Chipping Sparrow - 3
- Field Sparrow - 1
- Fox Sparrow - 9
- American Tree Sparrow - 22
- Dark-eyed Junco - 81
- White-crowned Sparrow - 5
- White-throated Sparrow - 33
- Savannah Sparrow - 1
- Song Sparrow - 40
- Swamp Sparrow - 8
- Red-winged Blackbird - 806
- Brown-headed Cowbird - 97
- Rusty Blackbird - 627
- Common Grackle - 23
- Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5
- Northern Cardinal - 31
??. Unidentified Scaup Species - 12
??. Unidentified Duck Species - 50
??. Unidentified Shorebird Species (dowitcher species/snipe) - 7
III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES, 3 TOTAL AMPHIBIANS. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
- Bullfrog - 3 (Third November Record on Census)
IV. CRUSTACEANS: 1 SPECIES NEW TO CENSUS, 1 TOTAL.
- Crayfish - 1 (First Record on Census)
V. MOTHS: 1 SPECIES NEW TO CENSUS, 1 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
- Isabella Tiger Moth - 1 (caterpillar) (New Species on Census - currently at 16 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 04/2002)
Compiler: Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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