OCT. 05, 2008 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 38-65-55 COND.: Crisp early, calm, no wind; warming throughout. Sunny, dry, afternoon wind 5-10mph out of the north.
OBS.: Bernie & Alice Frick (from York, Pa.), Marc Nolls, Ed Pierce, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 3
2. Mink - 1
3. Woodchuck - 5
4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
5. Eastern Cottontail - 1
6. White-tailed Deer - 6 (5 doe, 1 yearling)
II. BIRDS: 98 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 472
2. Mute Swan - 4
3. Trumpeter Swan - 24
4. Wood Duck - 18
5. Gadwall - 109
6. American Wigeon - 134
7. American Black Duck - 5
8. Mallard - 204
9. Blue-winged Teal - 40
10. Northern Shoveler - 4
11. Northern Pintail - 7
12. Green-winged Teal - 807
13. Hooded Merganser - 1
14. Ruddy Duck - 2
15. Pied-billed Grebe - 36
16. Double-crested Cormorant - 32
17. Great Blue Heron - 68
18. Great Egret - 113
19. Snowy Egret - 3
20. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 22
21. Bald Eagle - 7 (3 adult,4 immature)
22. Northern Harrier - 6
23. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
24. Cooper's Hawk - 2
25. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
26. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature)
27. Common Moorhen - 1
28. American Coot - 65
29. Black-bellied Plover - 32
30. Semipalmated Plover - 3
31. Killdeer - 31
32. Greater Yellowlegs - 6
33. Lesser Yellowlegs - 23
34. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2
35. Least Sandpiper - 11
36. Pectoral Sandpiper - 3
37. Dunlin - 13
38. Stilt Sandpiper - 1
39. Long-billed Dowitcher - 40
40. Wilson's Snipe - 4
41. Red-necked Phalarope - 1
42. Bonaparte's Gull - 2
43. Ring-billed Gull - 243
44. Herring Gull - 1
45. Caspian Tern - 1
46. Common Tern - 301
47. Mourning Dove - 10
48. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1
49. Chimney Swift - 1
50. Belted Kingfisher - 3
51. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
52. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
53. Downy Woodpecker - 13
54. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
55. Northern Flicker - 21
56. Eastern Phoebe - 3
57. Red-eyed Vireo - 2
58. Blue Jay - 31
59. Horned Lark - 29
60. Tree Swallow - 98
61. Black-capped Chickadee - 8
62. Tufted Titmouse - 3
63. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
65. Carolina Wren - 3
66. House Wren - 1
67. Winter Wren - 3
68. Marsh Wren - 3
69. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9
70. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 9
71. Eastern Bluebird - 1
72. American Robin - 50
73. Gray Catbird - 5
74. European Starling - 185
75. Orange-crowned Warbler - 2
76. Magnolia Warbler - 3
77. Cape May Warbler - 1
78. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
79. Yellow-rumped Warbler -  36
80. Blackpoll Warbler - 3
81. American Redstart - 1
82. Common Yellowthroat - 2
83. Field Sparrow - 22
84. Savannah Sparrow - 4
85. Song Sparrow - 28
86. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2
87. Swamp Sparrow - 21
88. White-throated Sparrow - 83
89. White-crowned Sparrow - 28
90. Dark-eyed Junco - 5
91. Northern Cardinal - 18
92. Indigo Bunting - 1
93. Red-winged Blackbird - 2,231
94. Common Grackle - 104
95. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4
96. House Finch - 1
97. American Goldfinch - 8
98. House Sparrow - 5
III,. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 1
2. Eastern Garter Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Northern Leopard Frog
2. Green Frog
3. Bullfrog
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage White
2. Clouded Sulphur
3. Buckeye
4. American Copper
5. Viceroy

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

 






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