Opening day bag check at Rondeau Park: 197 gimners took 296 birds-avg 1.5 

 Includes 9 hunters with zero bags. ^9 " . " 10^ " " 2.2 



Department of Lands and Forests 



Winter Waterfowl Inventory 



Lake Erie District 

 Jan. 19 and 20, I960 

 Count by Transect and Species 



Species 



Transect Numbers 

 Th 5 I 7 



7A 



"5" 



Total Total Change 



i960 1959 from 

 12i2_ 



HLack 



^■po J-1?? 



n^ ^ 



66 



Mallard 



20, 



112 



10 



Canvasback 



200 ^8 



8 



2 8^2 21^ h^7 



Scaup 



10 



Redhead 



20 



22^ 



270^ 9^2*? dec. 71^ 



PIP ;il8 inc. 79^ 



17^2 -\hh'^ dec. 51^ 



h PI 1619 dec.99$g 



262 I'^O 1167 ^^^' 



Goldeneye 



20 2666 h^'i ■\h'i 20 2^7 2^ 61 1^9 2 ^968 



Old Squaw 



^26lf inc. 22^ 

 inc. 



Merp:anser 



80 



fit? 7^0 dec. 88^ 



Unident. 



^^2 2^^0 10^^ l^*? 18»? 1^^ 26^? ^29 2^9 1 '?^0t+ 8Mt2 dec. ^7^ 



Total ducks 822 6701 l^^*? ^88 20^ hO-\ 1120 260'^ 116 7 l'?^ l'?199 27^1^ dec, ^5^ 

 Canada geese ; 22^0 15Q iJtQO «. — 



Swans 



11, 



22. 



Miner's Sanctuary Canada Geese 2000 included in above 

 Jones'* Sanctuary Canada Geese 75 not included 



Ducks 75 in above (ground tally) 



Grew: C. LaFebre, R.D. Ussher, T. A. Carter, E. G. Wilson 



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