AUGUST 02, 2009 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
Usual morning and afternoon routes.
TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-5:15pm TEMP.: 68-81
COND.: Rain ending at 8am, cloudy giving way to sunny and warm; wind west @5-15mph
OBS.: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 3
2. Coyote - 1
3. Mink - 1
4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
5. Woodchuck - 1
6. Eastern Cottontail - 2
7. White-tailed Deer - 6 (2 buck, 2 doe, 2 yearling)
II. BIRDS: 87 SPECIES (1 RELEASE).
1. Canada Goose - 208
R. Trumpeter Swan - 14 (5 young)
2. Wood Duck - 94
3. Mallard - 85
4. Blue-winged Teal - 8
5. Pied-billed Grebe - 30
6. Double-crested Cormorant - 17
7. American Bittern - 1
8. Least Bittern - 2
9. Great Blue Heron - 108
10. Great Egret - 177
11. Snowy Egret - 19
12. Green Heron - 1
13. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 8
14. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature)
15. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
16. American Kestrel - 2
17. Common Moorhen - 4
18. Sandhill Crane - 2
19. Semipalmated Plover - 8
20. Killdeer - 46
21. Greater Yellowlegs - 8
22. Lesser Yellowlegs - 54
23. Solitary Sandpiper - 2
24. Spotted Sandpiper - 3
25. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 59
26. Least Sandpiper - 29
27. Pectoral Sandpiper - 6
28. Stilt Sandpiper - 12
29. Short-billed Dowitcher - 45
30. Bonaparte's Gull - 22
31. Ring-billed Gull - 100
32. Herring Gull - 2
33. Caspian Tern - 13
34. Common Tern - 20
35. Forster's Tern - 2
**.  Tern Species (Common/Forster's) - 163
36. Mourning Dove - 68
37. Black-billed Cuckoo - 3
38. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
39. Chimney Swift - 1
40. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
41. Belted Kingfisher - 4
42. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
43. Downy Woodpecker - 12
44. Northern Flicker - 10
45. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4
46. Willow Flycatcher - 17
47. Eastern Phoebe - 6
48. Great Crested Flycatcher - 4
49. Eastern Kingbird - 36
50. Warbling Vireo - 5
51. Red-eyed Vireo - 6
52. Blue Jay - 7
53. Purple Martin - 36
54. Tree Swallow - 206
55. Bank Swallow - 7
56. Cliff Swallow - 1
57. Barn Swallow - 48
58. Black-capped Chickadee - 4
59. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7
60. House Wren - 12
61. Sedge Wren - 1
62. Marsh Wren - 14
63. American Robin - 41
64. Gray Catbird - 35
65. Northern Mockingbird - 1
66. Brown Thrasher - 1
67. European Starling - 208
68. Cedar Waxwing - 29
69. Yellow Warbler - 26
70. Prothonotary Warbler - 2
71. Common Yellowthroat - 21
72. Chipping Sparrow - 1
73. Field Sparrow - 26
74. Savannah Sparrow - 1
75. Henslow's Sparrow - 5
76. Song Sparrow - 43
77. Swamp Sparrow - 12
78. Northern Cardinal - 43
79. Indigo Bunting - 46
80. Bobolink - 6
81. Red-winged Blackbird - 325
82. Common Grackle - 60
83. Orchard Oriole - 1
84. Baltimore Oriole - 6
85. House Finch - 1
86. American Goldfinch - 49
87. House Sparrow - 24
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Red-eared Turtle - 4
2. Northern Water Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog - 1
2. Green Frog - many
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - many
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 9 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail
2. Cabbage White
3. Clouded Sulphur
4. Orange Sulphur
5. Spring Azure
6. Pearl Crescent
7. Red-Admiral
8. Viceroy
9. Monarch

A big "Thank You!" to the Ottawa N.W.R. Association for the Volunteer Cook-out.
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.







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