JULY 01, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-1:30pm; 2:30pm-6:45pm TEMP.: 74-90-80 COND.: Hot & breezy; front from the west at 5:30pm, cloudy, gray with rain & temperatures dropping. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. OBS.: Katie Clink & Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 3
2. Woodchuck - 2
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
4. Muskrat - 2
5. Eastern Cottontail - 1
6. White-tailed Deer - 3
II. BIRDS: 89 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 124
2. Mute Swan - 4 (2 adult with 2 young)
3. Trumpeter Swan - 29
4. Wood Duck - 56
5. Mallard - 39
6. Pied-billed Grebe - 37
7. Double-crested Cormorant - 10
8. Great Blue Heron - 142
9. Great Egret - 103
10. Snowy Egret - 12
11. Little Blue Heron - 1 (adult)
12. Green Heron - 2
13. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 24
14. White-faced Ibis - 1 (adult in Pool 2a)
15. Turkey Vulture - 2
16. Bald Eagle - 7 (2 adult,5 immature)
17. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
18. Common Gallinule - 2
19. Sandhill Crane - 4 (adults)
20. Killdeer - 188
21. Spotted Sandpiper - 10
22. Greater Yellowlegs - 1
23. Lesser Yellowlegs - 8
24. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 7
25. Least Sandpiper - 9
26. Short-billed Dowitcher - 10
27. Bonaparte's Gull - 6
28. Ring-billed Gull - 69
29. Herring Gull - 21
30. Caspian Tern - 1
31. Black Tern - 1
32. Common Tern - 71
33. Forster's Tern - 5
34. Mourning Dove - 20
35. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3
36. Great Horned Owl - 1
37. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
38. Downy Woodpecker - 9
39. Northern Flicker - 12
40. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 7
41. Willow Flycatcher - 11
42. Eastern Phoebe - 5
43. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
44. Eastern Kingbird - 37 (1 nest with 2 young)
45. Warbling Vireo - 25
46. Red-eyed Vireo - 1
47. Blue Jay - 6
48. Horned Lark - 2
49. Purple Martin - 26
50. Tree Swallow - 155
51. Cliff Swallow - 17 (5 new nests under Crane Creek bridge)
52. Barn Swallow - 45
53. Black-capped Chickadee - 2
54. Tufted Titmouse - 1
55. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
56. Carolina Wren - 2
57. House Wren - 30
58. Marsh Wren - 25
59. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (1 adult feeding 1 immature)
60. Wood Thrush - 1
61. American Robin - 35
62. Gray Catbird - 42
63. Brown Thrasher - 3
64. European Starling - 61
65. Cedar Waxwing - 7
66. Prothonotary Warbler - 4
67. Common Yellowthroat - 59
68. Yellow Warbler - 43
69. Chipping Sparrow - 8
70. Field Sparrow - 12
71. Vesper Sparrow - 1 (hedgerow northeast of Adam Grimm Prairie)
72. Savannah Sparrow - 3
73. Grasshopper Sparrow - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
74. Henslow's Sparrow - 3 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
75. Song Sparrow - 44
76. Swamp Sparrow - 15
77. Northern Cardinal - 23
78. Indigo Bunting - 20
79. Dickcissel - 17
80. Bobolink - 21
81. Red-winged Blackbird - 815
82. Eastern Meadowlark - 1
83. Common Grackle - 68
84. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16
85. Orchard Oriole - 2
86. Baltimore Oriole - 13
87. House Finch - 5
88. American Goldfinch - 42
89. House Sparrow - 8
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog
2. Green Frog
3. Northern Leopard Frog
V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp
2. Largemouth Bass
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 9 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 11
3. Clouded Sulphur - 6
4. Cloudless Sulphur - 4 (all together in prairie east of Stange Rd. observation deck)
5. Orange Sulphur - 4
6. Eastern Tailed Blue - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
7. Pearl Crescent - 2
8. Buckeye - 11
9. Monarch - 8

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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