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MAY 07, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: Usual morning and afternoon routes (east and west sides, along with
lakeside dike from mouth of Crane Creek to fish gate in the morning, back
side in the afternoon), except where closed due to eagle nesting.
TIME: 8:00am - 12:00pm; 1:30pm - 7:00pm TEMP.: 45 ~ 57 COND.: Chilly early,
giving way to sunny with blue skies, few clouds; strong and steady NW winds
at 10-20mph; high water throughout region from previous days' prolonged
rains. OBS.EAST: Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht. OBS.WEST: Katie Clink, Chris
Crofts, Conner Crofts, Matt Debelak, Debbie Hurlvert-Minard, Donna Kuhn,
John Minard, Dave & Kim Myles, Ed Pierce, Jacob Raber, Seneca Solt, T.J.
Vince, Thomas Vince. OBS.LAKESIDE: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS.AFTERNOON: Bob
Bartolotta, Debbie Hurlvert-Minard, Claire Johnson, John Minard, Ed Pierce,
Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 1
   2. Woodchuck - 2
   3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
   4. Common Muskrat - 6


II. BIRDS: 112 SPECIES, 3,582 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Canada Goose - 481
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 79
   3. Wood Duck - 29
   4. Gadwall - 10
   5. American Wigeon - 2
   6. Mallard - 19
   7. Blue-winged Teal - 11
   8. Northern Shoveler - 2
   9. Red-breasted Merganser - 3 (all females)
   10. Pied-billed Grebe - 13
   11. Mourning Dove - 13
   12. Chimney Swift - 2
   13. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
   14. Virginia Rail - 2
   15. Sora - 6
   16. Common Gallinule - 15
   17. American Coot - 12
   18. Sandhill Crane - 6
   19. Killdeer - 23
   20. Marbled Godwit - 1 (across from Ottawa NWR property in flooded field
   at corner of Rt. 2 and Rt. 19)
   21. Dunlin - 157
   22. Least Sandpiper - 2 (at burned and flooded Stange Prairie)
   23. Pectoral Sandpiper - 2 (at burned and flooded Stange Prairie)
   24. Spotted Sandpiper - 2
   25. Solitary Sandpiper - 8
   26. Greater Yellowlegs - 5
   27. Lesser Yellowlegs - 162
   28. Bonaparte's Gull - 6
   29. Ring-billed Gull - 62
   30. Herring Gull - 22
   31. Great Black-backed Gull - 1 (immature headed west along Lake Erie
   shore)
   32. Caspian Tern - 8
   33. Common Tern - 21
   34. Forster's Tern - 4
   35. Double-crested Cormorant - 346
   36. American White Pelican - 5 (headed east along Lake Erie shore)
   37. Great Blue Heron - 119
   38. Great Egret - 164
   39. Snowy Egret - 1
   40. Cattle Egret - 1 (along Stange Rd.)
   41. Green Heron - 2
   42. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
   43. Turkey Vulture - 9
   44. Bald Eagle - 12 (6 adult,6 immature)
   45. Northern Harrier - 1
   46. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 (headed west along Lake Erie shore)
   47. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (headed west along Lake Erie shore)
   48. Red-tailed Hawk - 10
   49. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
   50. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
   51. Downy Woodpecker - 14
   52. Northern Flicker - 12
   53. Merlin - 1 (male - headed west along Lake Erie shore)
   54. Eastern Phoebe - 1
   55. Eastern Kingbird - 8
   56. Blue-headed Vireo - 1
   57. Warbling Vireo - 10
   58. Blue Jay - 54
   59. Horned Lark - 1
   60. Purple Martin - 35
   61. Tree Swallow - 314
   62. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 11
   63. Bank Swallow - 4
   64. Cliff Swallow - 3
   65. Barn Swallow - 77
   66. Black-capped Chickadee - 5
   67. Tufted Titmouse - 3
   68. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
   69. Brown Creeper - 2 (observed taking nest material under tree bark in
   South Woods)
   70. House Wren - 19
   71. Marsh Wren - 6
   72. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8
   73. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 6
   74. Eastern Bluebird - 1
   75. Swainson's Thrush - 1
   76. Hermit Thrush - 1
   77. Wood Thrush - 1
   78. American Robin - 39
   79. Gray Catbird - 37
   80. Brown Thrasher - 3
   81. European Starling - 76
   82. House Sparrow - 43
   83. American Pipit - 2 (at burned and flooded Stange Prairie)
   84. House Finch - 2
   85. American Goldfinch - 50
   86. Ovenbird - 2
   87. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1
   88. Northern Waterthrush - 3
   89. Black-and-white Warbler - 1
   90. Nashville Warbler - 1
   91. Common Yellowthroat - 26
   92. American Redstart - 1
   93. Cape May Warbler - 1
   94. Yellow Warbler - 114
   95. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
   96. Palm Warbler - 40
   97. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7
   98. Chipping Sparrow - 3
   99. Field Sparrow - 2
   100. Song Sparrow - 39
   101. Swamp Sparrow - 2
   102. White-throated Sparrow - 25
   103. White-crowned Sparrow - 8
   104. Summer Tanager - 1 (male - seen in South Woods by Kim Myles)
   105. Northern Cardinal - 19
   106. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 6
   107. Indigo Bunting - 2
   108. Red-winged Blackbird - 431
   109. Rusty Blackbird - 6
   110. Common Grackle - 95
   111. Brown-headed Cowbird - 15
   112. Baltimore Oriole - 4


III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.

   1. Common Snapping Turtle - 6
   2. Map Turtle - 3
   3. Midland Painted Turtle - 7
   4. Northern Water Snake - 1


IV. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - 2
   2. Common Emerald Shiner - 2


V. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Cabbage Butterfly - 2
   2. American Painted Lady - 8


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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