OCT. 04, 2009 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-5:15pm TEMP.: 50-56-55
COND.: Cloudy and cool early, clouds/sun mix late afternoon; wind W/SW at 5-15mph.
OBS.: Aaron Bartley, Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus, Michelle Zager.
I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Woodchuck - 1
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
3. White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 94 SPECIES, 1 RELEASE.
1. Canada Goose - 319
2. Mute Swan - 2
R. Trumpeter Swan - 37 (17 adults,20 juv.)
3. Wood Duck - 173
4. Gadwall - 9
5. American Wigeon - 14
6. American Black Duck - 15
7. Mallard - 315
8. Blue-winged Teal - 263
9. Northern Shoveler - 6
10. Northern Pintail - 4
11. Green-winged Teal - 508
12. Lesser Scaup - 1
13. Pied-billed Grebe - 15
14. Double-crested Cormorant - 73
15. Great Blue Heron - 105
16. Great Egret - 166
17. Snowy Egret - 8
18. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 5
19. Bald Eagle - 7 (2 adult,5 juv.)
20. Cooper's Hawk - 2
21. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
22. American Kestrel - 2
23. American Coot - 129
24. Semipalmated Plover - 7
25. Killdeer - 49
26. Greater Yellowlegs - 4
27. Lesser Yellowlegs - 28
28. Least Sandpiper - 8
29. Pectoral Sandpiper - 9
30. Dunlin - 5
31. Short-billed Dowitcher - 1
32. Long-billed Dowitcher - 3
33. Wilson's Snipe - 3
34. Bonaparte's Gull - 123
35. Ring-billed Gull - 829
36. Herring Gull - 27
37. Caspian Tern - 5
38. Common Tern - 80
39. Forster's Tern - 6
40. Mourning Dove - 32
41. Belted Kingfisher - 1
42. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
43. Downy Woodpecker - 21
44. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
45. Northern Flicker - 24
46. Willow Flycatcher - 1
46b. Unknown Empidonax - 1
47. Eastern Phoebe - 8
48. Red-eyed Vireo - 1
49. Blue Jay - 39
50. Horned Lark - 6
51. Tree Swallow - 302
52. Black-capped Chickadee - 10
53. Tufted Titmouse - 4
54. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
55. Brown Creeper - 2
56. House Wren - 3
57. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 11
58. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5
59. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
60. Swainson's Thrush - 1
61. Hermit Thrush - 1
62. American Robin - 83
63. Gray Catbird - 1
64. European Starling - 1,100
65. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
66. Nashville Warbler - 3
67. Northern Parula - 2
68. Magnolia Warbler -2
69. Cape May Warbler - 2
70. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7
71. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
72. Palm Warbler - 3
73. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1
74. Blackpoll Warbler - 13
75. Black-and-white Warbler - 1
76. American Redstart - 2
77. Common Yellowthroat - 6
78. American Tree Sparrow - 1
79. Field Sparrow - 3
80. Song Sparrow - 25
81. Lincoln's Sparrow - 4
82. Swamp Sparrow - 2
83. White-throated Sparrow - 67
84. White-crowned Sparrow - 2
85. Dark-eyed Junco - 1
86. Northern Cardinal - 20
87. Indigo Bunting - 3
88. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,290
89. Eastern Meadowlark - 2
90. Rusty Blackbird - 2
91. Common Grackle - 39
92. Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
93. American Goldfinch - 34
94. House Sparrow - 4
III. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog - 8
2. Green Frog - 1
IV. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 3
2. White Crappie - 1 (caught by Caspian Tern)
V. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Clouded Sulphur - 3
2. American Copper - 1
3. Monarch - 5

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.




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