AUGUST 05, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 69-85 COND.: Overcast early turning to rain & lightning from 8:30am-10:30am; clearing out to mostly sunny & warm. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. OBS.: Tom Bartlett (morning only), Katie Clink (morning only), Michael David, Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Woodchuck - 2
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
3. Meadow Vole - 1
4. Muskrat - 2
5. Eastern Cottontail - 1
6. White-tailed Deer - 15 (6-pt. buck, 13 doe, 1 yearling)
II. BIRDS: 91 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 70
2. Trumpeter Swan - 33 (two with yellow neckbands: "3A0" & "3A8")
3. Wood Duck - 115
4. Mallard - 165
5. Green-winged Teal - 2
6. Hooded Merganser - 2
7. Pied-billed Grebe - 10
8. Double-crested Cormorant - 14
9. American Bittern - 1
10. Great Blue Heron - 166
11. Great Egret - 290
12. Snowy Egret - 24
13. Little Blue Heron - 1 (immature)
14. Green Heron - 12
15. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 46
16. Bald Eagle - 8 (4 adult, 4 immature)
17. Northern Harrier - 1 (female)
18. Cooper's Hawk - 4
19. Red-tailed Hawk - 14
20. Peregrine Falcon - 2
21. Common Gallinule - 1
22. Semipalmated Plover - 9
23. Killdeer - 102
24. Spotted Sandpiper - 37
25. Greater Yellowlegs - 29
26. Lesser Yellowlegs - 128
27. Ruddy Turnstone - 1
28. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 14
29. Least Sandpiper - 49
30. Pectoral Sandpiper - 21
31. Dunlin - 1
32. Stilt Sandpiper - 21
33. Short-billed Dowitcher - 71
34. Wilson's Snipe - 1
35. Bonaparte's Gull - 96
36. Ring-billed Gull - 165
37. Herring Gull - 17
38. Caspian Tern - 12
39. Black Tern - 1 (immature)
40. Common Tern - 221
41. Forster's Tern - 322
42. Mourning Dove - 28
43. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
44. Great Horned Owl - 1
45. Chimney Swift - 6
46. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
47. Belted Kingfisher - 9
48. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
49. Downy Woodpecker - 10
50. Northern Flicker - 13
51. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 8
52. Willow Flycatcher - 22
53. Eastern Phoebe - 8
54. Eastern Kingbird - 52
55. Warbling Vireo - 3
56. Red-eyed Vireo - 1
57. Blue Jay - 5
58. Purple Martin - 58
59. Tree Swallow - 339
60. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 30
61. Bank Swallow - 2
62. Cliff Swallow - 1
63. Barn Swallow - 82
64. Black-capped Chickadee - 2
65. Carolina Wren - 3
66. House Wren - 4
67. Marsh Wren - 9
68. American Robin - 43
69. Gray Catbird - 25
70. Brown Thrasher - 1
71. European Starling - 652
72. Cedar Waxwing - 6
73. Common Yellowthroat - 16
74. Yellow Warbler - 22
75. Field Sparrow - 18
76. Savannah Sparrow - 2
77. Henslow's Sparrow - 2
78. Song Sparrow - 37
79. Swamp Sparrow - 4
80. Northern Cardinal - 16
81. Indigo Bunting - 10
82. Dickcissel - 3
83. Bobolink - 22
84. Red-winged Blackbird - 623
85. Common Grackle - 229
86. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
87. Orchard Oriole - 1
88. Baltimore Oriole - 7
89. House Finch - 3
90. American Goldfinch - 27
91. House Sparrow - 3
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Red-eared Turtle - 2
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 3
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Green Frog - 1
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - many
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 2
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 11
3. Clouded Sulphur - 3
4. Orange Sulphur - 3
5. Buckeye - 17
6. Red-spotted Purple - 1
7. Viceroy - 3
8. Monarch - 7

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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