MAY 03, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed due to eagle nesting.TIME: 8:00am-7:00pm TEMP.: 64-79-75 COND.: Sunny & warm; winds light from SW.OBS.: Linda Benner, Katie Clink, Michael Clink (afternoon only), Claire Johnson (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Fern Overbaugh (afternoon only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Patty Shepard (afternoon only) & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.   
   - Woodchuck - 1   

   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
   - Muskrat - 12
   - Eastern Cottontail - 1
   - White-tailed Deer - 2
II. BIRDS: 131 SPECIES.   
   - Canada Goose - 346   

   - Trumpeter Swan - 22
   - Wood Duck - 29
   - Gadwall - 25
   - American Wigeon - 9
   - American Black Duck - 1
   - Mallard - 93
   - Blue-winged Teal - 22
   - Northern Shoveler - 12
   - Northern Pintail - 2
   - Green-winged Teal - 4
   - Ring-necked Duck - 2
   - Lesser Scaup - 10
   - Bufflehead - 1 (f)
   - Hooded Merganser - 10
   - Red-breasted Merganser - 2 (1m,1f)
   - Ruddy Duck - 56
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 14
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 23
   - American Bittern - 1
   - Least Bittern - 1
   - Great Blue Heron - 41
   - Great Egret - 56
   - Snowy Egret - 2
   - Green Heron - 7
   - Black-crowned Night-Heron - 8
   - Turkey Vulture - 18
   - Bald Eagle - 11 (8 adult, 3 immature)
   - Northern Harrier - 2 (f/imm.)
   - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 5
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1
   - Broad-winged Hawk - 3
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 5
   - Virginia Rail - 2
   - Sora - 9
   - Common Gallinule - 5
   - American Coot - 95
   - Sandhill Crane - 3
   - American Golden-Plover - 51
   - Semipalmated Plover - 2
   - Killdeer - 34
   - Spotted Sandpiper - 2
   - Solitary Sandpiper - 7
   - Greater Yellowlegs - 9
   - Lesser Yellowlegs - 25
   - Least Sandpiper - 2
   - Pectoral Sandpiper - 19
   - Dunlin - 47
   - Wilson's Snipe - 4
   - Bonaparte's Gull - 3
   - Ring-billed Gull - 72
   - Herring Gull - 11
   - Caspian Tern - 2
   - Common Tern - 65
   - Forster's Tern - 4
   - Rock Pigeon - 1
   - Mourning Dove - 11
   - Great Horned Owl - 2
   - Chimney Swift - 1
   - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
   - Belted Kingfisher - 1
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
   - Downy Woodpecker - 8
   - Northern Flicker - 13
   - Least Flycatcher - 1
   - Eastern Phoebe - 1
   - Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
   - Eastern Kingbird - 1
   - White-eyed Vireo - 2
   - Blue-headed Vireo - 2
   - Warbling Vireo - 29
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 1
   - Blue Jay - 2,802
   - Horned Lark - 1
   - Purple Martin - 17
   - Tree Swallow - 230
   - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
   - Bank Swallow - 1
   - Cliff Swallow - 2
   - Barn Swallow - 49
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 8
   - Tufted Titmouse - 2
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
   - House Wren - 9
   - Marsh Wren - 13
   - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 32
   - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12
   - Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1
   - Hermit Thrush - 6
   - Wood Thrush - 1
   - American Robin - 60
   - Gray Catbird - 14
   - Northern Mockingbird - 1
   - Brown Thrasher - 4
   - European Starling - 48
   - Ovenbird - 1
   - Northern Waterthrush - 2
   - Prothonotary Warbler - 2
   - Nashville Warbler - 3
   - Common Yellowthroat - 4
   - American Redstart - 2
   - Magnolia Warbler - 2
   - Blackburnian Warbler - 1
   - Yellow Warbler - 107
   - Blackpoll Warbler - 1
   - Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
   - Palm Warbler - 79
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 125
   - Black-throated Green Warbler - 5
   - Canada Warbler - 1
   - Chipping Sparrow - 8
   - Field Sparrow - 6
   - Savannah Sparrow - 2
   - Song Sparrow - 37
   - Swamp Sparrow - 26
   - White-throated Sparrow - 169
   - White-crowned Sparrow - 35
   - Dark-eyed Junco  - 2
   - Scarlet Tanager - 1
   - Northern Cardinal - 52
   - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 508
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 1
   - Common Grackle - 153
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 30
   - Orchard Oriole - 1
   - Baltimore Oriole - 3
   - Purple Finch - 1 (f)
   - House Finch - 1
   - American Goldfinch - 32
   - House Sparrow - 5
REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.   
   - Map Turtle - 32   

   - Midland Painted Turtle - 7
   - Northern Water Snake - 11
   - Eastern Garter Snake - 2
AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.   
   - Northern Leopard Frog - many   

FISHES: 1 SPECIES.   
   - Common Carp - too many   

BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES.   
   - Cabbage Butterfly    

   - Clouded Sulphur 
   - Mourning Cloak
   - Red Admiral
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.




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