Here, within, is an  unofficial list of the birds seen on this month's Ottawa NWR census.
  Official numbers are yet to be completed.
  TIME: 8am-12pm LUNCH: 12pm-1:15pm BACKSIDE DIKE: 1:15pm-4:40pm TEMP.: 67-88+
  COND.: Warm, early and warming throughout - hot & buggy - more like August than October; unseasonably warm (hot). OBS. Al & Betty, (forgive my lack of social skills), Nancy Anderson, Mike Edginton, Marc Nolls, Jim Reyda, Bert Szabo,Jack & Janet Volker, Douglas W. Vogus: (and I apologize to those I missed or did not know)
  BIRDS: 97 SPECIES (give-or-take what I/we missed).
  1. Canada Goose
  2. Trumpeter Swan - 28
  3. Wood Duck - 45+
  4. Gadwall - 200+
  5. American Wigeon - 3000+
  6. American Black Duck - 15+
  7. Mallard - 400+
  8. Blue-winged Teal - 80+
  9. Northern Shoveler - 20+
  10. Northern Pintail - 1
  11. Green-winged Teal - 2570+
  12. Canvasback - 2 (1m,1f)
  13. Ring-necked Duck - 2
  14. Ruddy Duck - 4
  15. Pied-billed Grebe - 15+
  16. Double-crested Cormorant - 70+
  17. Great Blue Heron
  18. Great Egret
  19. Snowy Egret - 7
  20. Black-crowned Night Heron - 10
  21. Bald Eagle - 4 (adult)
  22. Northern Harrier - 5
  23. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. f)
  24. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
  25. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (imm.)
  26. Common Moorhen - 4
  27. American Coot - 800+ (1 leucistic bird)
  28. Black-bellied Plover - 26
  29. Semipalmated Plover - 3
  30. Killdeer - 120+
  31. American Avocet - 1
  32. Greater Yellowlegs - 8
  33. Lesser Yellowlegs - 40+
  34. Solitary Sandpiper - 2
  35. Spotted Sandpiper - 3
  36. Red Knot - 3
  37. Least Sandpiper - 4
  38. Pectoral Sandpiper - 30+
  39. Dunlin - 475
  40. Short-billed Dowitcher - 15+
  41. Wilson's Snipe - 40-
  42. Bonaparte's Gull - 250+
  43. Ring-billed Gull
  44. Herring Gull - 17
  45. Unid. Tern (Common/Forster's) - 5,000+ (a wave of white in very bad light)
  46. Mourning Dove - 29
  47. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
  48. Chimney Swift - 1
  49. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1f,1*)
  50. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (juv.)
  51. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1f)
  52. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
  53. Downy Woodpecker - 8
  54. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (f)
  55. Northern Flicker - 12
  56. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
  57. Philadelphia Vireo - 1
  58. Blue Jay - (no major flights)
  59. Horned Lark - 7
  60. Tree Swallow - 20-
  61. Unidentified Swallow - 1 (very brown - no immature Tree)
  62. Tufted Titmouse - 1
  63. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (*)
  64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (1?,1*)
  65. Brown Creeper - 3+
  66. Carolina Wren - 1
  67. House Wren - 2
  68. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7
  69. Ruby-crowned Kinget - 3
  70. Veery - 1
  71. Swainson's Thrush - 1
  72. Hermit Thrush - 1
  73. American Robin - >35
  74. Gray Catbird - 3
  75. Brown Thrasher - 1
  76. European Starling - 3,600+ (easily 96-percent juv. birds - west to east - non-stop flights)
  77. Cedar Waxwing - 20-ish
  78. Orange-crowned Warbler
  79. Nashville Warbler
  80. Chestnut-sided Warbler
  81. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 30-ish
  82. Blackpoll Warbler - 20-ish
  83. Common Yellowthroat - >5
  84. Song Sparrow
  85. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
  86. Swamp Sparrow - >10
  87. White-throated Sparrow
  88. White-crowned Sparrow
  89. Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (1 rather pink-sided female)
  90. Northern Cardinal - >10
  91. Red-winged Blackbird - 800<
  92. Rusty Blackbird - 20<
  93. Common Grackle - 200<
  94. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
  95. House Finch - 1 (*)
  96. American Goldfinch - 30>
  97. House Sparrow - 6
     I apologize to those left out (birds included) that I failed to mention, this is just a general list of birds seen within our fractured group of observers, (and I thank you all). Basically, just letting you know what was seen on this given date, at this given place. Migration - without a doubt - the eighth wonder of my world!
  Thank You, D.W. Vogus - (see you in the field)



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