MAY 05, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:50pm; 5:10pm-7:35pm (The afternoon census was delayed due to a chicken bone in Jim Reyda's tire after lunch at Blackberry Corners. AAA card to the rescue,                         plugged the hole, and we resumed the census. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.) ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting.
TEMP.: 56-72-68 COND.: Sunny & pleasant. Wind ENE at 5-15mph. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn (morning only), Jason Lewis (morning only), Lisa Phelps
(morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Kristi Rowland (morning only), Al Schlecht (morning only), Bert Szabo, Douglas W. Vogus, Chris West (morning only).
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 1
2. Mink - 1
3. Woodchuck - 1
4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
5. Muskrat - 2
6. Eastern Cottontail - 6
7. White-tailed Deer - 7 (2 bucks,5 does)
II. BIRDS: 115 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 482
2. Trumpeter Swan - 63 (one with yellow neckband "1A0")
3. Wood Duck - 39
4. Gadwall - 4
5. Mallard - 47
6. Blue-winged Teal - 12
7. Northern Shoveler - 3
8. Green-winged Teal - 18
9. Canvasback - 1 (male)
10. Lesser Scaup - 2
11. Hooded Merganser - 2
12. Northern Bobwhite - 1
13. Pied-billed Grebe - 7
14. Double-crested Cormorant - 102
15. Great Blue Heron - 142
16. Great Egret - 102
17. Green Heron - 3
18. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
19. Turkey Vulture - 3
20. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature)
21. Northern Harrier - 1
22. Cooper's Hawk - 1
23. Broad-winged Hawk - 1
24. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
25. Sora - 6
26. Common Gallinule - 1
27. American Coot - 79
28. Sandhill Crane - 2
29. Killdeer - 26
30. Greater Yellowlegs - 1
31. Spotted Sandpiper - 4
32. Solitary Sandpiper - 2
33. Dunlin - 50
34. American Woodcock - 1
35. Bonaparte's Gull - 30
36. Ring-billed Gull - 17
37. Herring Gull - 16
38. Common Tern - 31
39. Forster's Tern - 21
40. Mourning Dove - 19
41. Chimney Swift - 3
42. Belted Kingfisher - 3
43. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
44. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
45. Downy Woodpecker - 10
46. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
47. Northern Flicker - 10
48. American Kestrel - 1
49. Least Flycatcher - 11
50. Eastern Phoebe - 7
51. Eastern Kingbird - 19
52. White-eyed Vireo - 1
53. Blue-headed Vireo - 7
54. Warbling Vireo - 31
55. Blue Jay - 89
56. Horned Lark - 4
57. Purple Martin - 23
58. Tree Swallow - 389
59. Bank Swallow - 2
60. Cliff Swallow - 2
61. Barn Swallow - 16
62. Black-capped Chickadee - 5
63. Tufted Titmouse - 2
64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
65. Carolina Wren - 8
66. House Wren - 24
67. Winter Wren - 1
68. Marsh Wren - 17
69. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5
70. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12
71. Veery - 2
72. Swainson's Thrush - 3
73. Wood Thrush - 3
74. American Robin - 63
75. Gray Catbird - 34
76. Brown Thrasher - 4
77. European Starling - 69
78. American Pipit - 37 (at the recently burned Adam Grimm Prairie)
79. Ovenbird - 1
80. Northern Waterthrush - 3
81. Black-and-white Warbler - 9
82. Prothonotary Warbler - 1
83. Nashville Warbler - 17
84. Common Yellowthroat - 27
85. Magnolia Warbler - 3
86. Blackburnian Warbler - 1
87. Yellow Warbler - 208
88. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4
89. Blackpoll Warbler - 1
90. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
91. Palm Warbler - 20
92. Pine Warbler - 1
93. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 38
94. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2
95. Canada Warbler - 1
96. Chipping Sparrow - 14
97. Field Sparrow - 17
98. Savannah Sparrow - 6
99. Song Sparrow - 73
100. Swamp Sparrow - 17
101. White-throated Sparrow - 24
102. White-crowned Sparrow - 58
103. Dark-eyed Junco - 1
104. Northern Cardinal - 46
105. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
106. Bobolink - 2
107. Red-winged Blackbird - 569
108. Rusty Blackbird - 6
109. Common Grackle - 129
110. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16
111. Orchard Oriole - 2
112. Baltimore Oriole - 11
113. House Finch - 9
114. American Goldfinch - 102
115. House Sparrow - 11
III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES.
1. Map Turtle - 3 (C. West)
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 1
3. Northern Water Snake - 3
4. Eastern Garter Snake - 1
5. Black Rat Snake - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog
2. Green Frog
3. Northern Leopard Frog
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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