JULY 07, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except for where closed due to eagle nesting.
TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-4:40pm TEMP.: 64-80-75
COND.: Mostly cloudy early turning mostly sunny; front moving in from west with rain from 4:15pm-4:30pm;
No mudflats available due to flooding from recent heavy rains.
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Chris Knoll, Doug Nims, Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda,
Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Mink - 1
2. Woodchuck - 2
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
4. Muskrat - 1
5. Eastern Cottontail - 7
6. White-tailed Deer - 3 (1 buck,2 doe)
II. BIRDS: 78 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 233
2. Trumpeter Swan - 19
3. Wood Duck - 28
4. Gadwall - 4
5. Mallard - 129
6. Green-winged Teal - 45
7. Hooded Merganser - 1
8. Pied-billed Grebe - 6
9. Double-crested Cormorant - 104
10. Great Blue Heron - 116
11. Great Egret - 128
12. Snowy Egret - 3
13. Green Heron - 2
14. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 21
15. Turkey Vulture - 5
16. Bald Eagle - 11 (5 adult,6 immature)
17. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
18. Sora - 2
19. Common Moorhen - 3
20. American Coot - 1
21. Killdeer - 65
22. Spotted Sandpiper - 10
23. Ring-billed Gull - 282
24. Herring Gull - 8
25. Caspian Tern - 2
26. Common Tern - 30
27. Mourning Dove - 40
28. Great Horned Owl - 2
29. Chimney Swift - 5
30. Belted Kingfisher - 1
31. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
32. Downy Woodpecker - 14
33. Northern Flicker - 19
34. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 10
35. Willow Flycatcher - 11
36. Eastern Phoebe - 11
37. Great Crested Flycatcher - 4
38. Eastern Kingbird - 42
39. Warbling Vireo - 22
40. Red-eyed Vireo - 1
41. Blue Jay - 8
42. Horned Lark - 3
43. Purple Martin - 57
44. Tree Swallow - 210
45. Cliff Swallow - 32
46. Barn Swallow - 56
47. Black-capped Chickadee - 1
48. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
49. Carolina Wren - 4
50. House Wren - 37
51. Marsh Wren - 43
52. American Robin - 35
53. Gray Catbird - 68
54. Northern Mockingbird - 1
55. Brown Thrasher - 4
56. European Starling - 84
57. Cedar Waxwing - 46
58. Prothonotary Warbler - 7
59. Common Yellowthroat - 76
60. American Redstart - 1 (juvenile)
61. Yellow Warbler - 50
62. Chipping Sparrow - 7
63. Field Sparrow - 17
64. Savannah Sparrow - 1
65. Henslow's Sparrow - 1
66. Song Sparrow - 108
67. Swamp Sparrow - 33
68. Northern Cardinal - 22
69. Indigo Bunting - 26
70. Dickcissel - 8
71. Red-winged Blackbird - 664
72. Common Grackle - 63
73. Brown-headed Cowbird - 11
74. Orchard Oriole - 11
75. Baltimore Oriole - 8
76. House Finch - 2
77. American Goldfinch - 60
78. House Sparrow - 11
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Northern Water Snake - 1
2. Eastern Garter Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog - 4
2. Green Frog - 9
3. Northern Leopard Frog - 1
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 3
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 3
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 6
3. Clouded Sulphur - 12
4. Summer Azure - 13
5. Mourning Cloak - 1
6. Red Admiral - 3
7. Common Buckeye - 1
8. Viceroy - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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