JUNE 01, 2008 - Official Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-6:15pm TEMP.: 64-73 (avg:70) COND.: Sunny, dry, clear; wind w/nw @ 10-12mph
OBS.: East Side: Ed Pierce, Douglas W. Vogus. West Side: Marc Nolls, Jim Reyda, Dan Sanders. Back Side: Sherrie Duris, Marc Nolls, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Dan Sanders, Douglas W. Vogus.
BIRDS: 84 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 316
2. Trumpeter Swan - 16 (released birds with young - yellow band "3AO" mated pair with 2 young; unmarked mated pair with 5 young)
3. Wood Duck - 71 (also 1 nest with 17 eggs)
4. Mallard - 38
5. Blue-winged Teal - 10
6. Lesser Scaup - 1 (f) - west side
7. Hooded Merganser - 1 (f)
8. Pied-billed Grebe - 40 (includes young)
9. Double-crested Cormorant - 62
10. Least Bittern - 2 (calling - back side)
11. Great Blue Heron - 81
12. Great Egret - 125
13. Green Heron - 8
14. Black-crowned Night Heron - 4 (all adults)
15. Bald Eagle - 6 (2 adult, 4 immature - 5 nests on this end of the refuge - results do not include young observed by eagle counters: 1. Ottawa/Lucas nest - 1 young; 2. Butternut nest - 1 young; 3. "Drive-thru Woods nest - 2 young; 4. N. Veler Rd. nest - 2 young; 5. Pool 9 nest - taken over by Great Horned Owls, no eagle success).
16. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 (1 young calling from S. Butternut Woods nest)
17. Common Moorhen - 13
18. American Coot - 3
19. Killdeer - 9
20. Greater Yellowlegs - 1
21. Lesser Yellowlegs - 3
22. Spotted Sandpiper - 2
23. Ruddy Turnstone - 6
24. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 45
25. Dunlin - 91
26. Wilson's Snipe - 1
27. American Woodcock - 1
28. Ring-billed Gull - 5
29. Herring Gull - 11
30. Common Tern - 81
31. Rock Pigeon - 1
32. Mourning Dove - 12
33. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 5
Unknown Cuckoo - 1 (too fleeting a glimpse)
34. Chimney Swift - 5
35. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4
36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
37. Downy Woodpecker - 6
38. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
39. Northern Flicker - 5
40. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
41. Alder Flycatcher - 1
42. Willow Flycatcher - 15
Unknown Empidonax Flycatcher - 8
43. Great Crested Flycatcher - 4
44. Eastern Kingbird - 30
45. Warbling Vireo - 25
46. Red-eyed Vireo - 2
47. Blue Jay - 8
48. Purple Martin - 6
49. Tree Swallow - 66
50. Bank Swallow - 1
51. Cliff Swallow - 40 (47-50 active nests)
52. Barn Swallow - 24
53. Black-capped Chickadee - 1
54. Carolina Wren - 2
55. House Wren - 17
56. Marsh Wren - 18
57. Wood Thrush - 3
58. American Robin - 30
59. Gray Catbird - 35
60. Brown Thrasher - 4
61. European Starling - 124
62. Cedar Waxwing - 13
63. Yellow Warbler - 68
64. Blackpoll Warbler - 2 (1m,1f)
65. American Redstart - 1 (m)
66. Prothonotary Warbler - 2 (m)
67. Ovenbird - 1 (calling)
68. Common Yellowthroat - 32
69. Wilson's Warbler - 1 (m)
70. Chipping Sparrow - 1
71. Field Sparrow - 14
72. Savannah Sparrow - 3
73. Song Sparrow -43
74. Swamp Sparrow - 3
75. Northern Cardinal - 27
76. Indigo Bunting - 11
77. Red-winged Blackbird - 218 (1 nest with 4 eggs)
78. Eastern Meadowlark - 4
79. Common Grackle - 63
80. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16
81. Orchard Oriole - 1
82. Baltimore Oriole - 11
83. American Goldfinch - 21
84. House Sparrow - 5

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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