JUNE 06, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-5:30pm TEMP.: 64-72-68 COND.: Gray & overcast early, front from the west; west wind at 5-15mph; mostly cloudy after lunch; high water conditions and many branches and trees down due to overnight storm conditions.
OBS.: Group I: 4; Group II: 4 (Katie Clink, Michael O'Brien, Al & Betty Schlecht - morning only; Aaron Bartley, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus) ROUTES: Same morning and afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
2. Muskrat - 3
3. Meadow Vole - 1
4. Eastern Cottontail - 4
5. White-tailed Deer - 10 (2 bucks,8 does)
II. BIRDS: 87 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 191
2. Mute Swan - 5
3. Trumpeter Swan - 43 (13 adults,30 cygnets - neck bands on adults: Yellow 3AO, Yellow 1A2, Green 74M, Yellow ?)
4. Wood Duck - 183
5. Mallard - 95
6. Blue-winged Teal - 6
7. Hooded Merganser 1 (female)
8. Ring-necked Pheasant - 2
9. Pied-billed Grebe - 11 (2 young)
10. Double-crested Cormorant - 102
11. Great Blue Heron - 98
12. Great Egret - 151
13. Snowy Egret - 4
14. Green Heron - 3
15. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 6
16. Turkey Vulture - 7
17. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 immature)
18. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. male)
19. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
20. American Kestrel - 2
21. Common Moorhen - 5
22. American Coot - 7
23. Sandhill Crane - 3 (2 adults with 1 down-covered young half the adult's size)
24. Killdeer - 23 (1 nest with 3 eggs)
25. Least Sandpiper - 1
26. American Woodcock - 1
27. Ring-billed Gull - 2
28. Herring Gull - 14
29. Caspian Tern - 1
30. Common Tern - 37
31. Mourning Dove - 9
32. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4
33. Great Horned Owl - 1
34. Chimney Swift - 2
35. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
36. Downy Woodpecker - 7
37. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
38. Northern Flicker - 8
39. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4
40. Willow Flycatcher - 26
41. Eastern Phoebe - 3
42. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6
43. Eastern Kingbird - 32
44. White-eyed Vireo - 1
45. Warbling Vireo - 20
46. Blue Jay - 4
47. American Crow - 3
48. Horned Lark - 3
49. Purple Martin - 6
50. Tree Swallow - 249
51. Cliff Swallow - 50
52. Barn Swallow - 25
53. Black-capped Chickadee - 7
54. Tufted Titmouse - 2
55. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
56. Carolina Wren - 2
57. House Wren - 26
58. Marsh Wren - 35
59. Wood Thrush - 2
60. American Robin - 31
61. Gray Catbird - 30
62. Northern Mockingbird - 1
63. Brown Thrasher - 3
64. European Starling - 82
65. Cedar Waxwing - 21
66. Yellow Warbler - 98
67. Prothonotary Warbler - 1
68. Northern Waterthrush - 1
69. Common Yellowthroat - 32
70. Scarlet Tanager - 1
71. Chipping Sparrow - 5
72. Field Sparrow - 28
73. Savannah Sparrow - 2
74. Henslow's Sparrow - 1
75. Song Sparrow - 55
76. Swamp Sparrow - 7
77. Northern Cardinal - 21
78. Indigo Bunting - 27
79. Red-winged Blackbird - 388
80. Eastern Meadowlark - 2
81. Common Grackle - 103
82. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12
83. Orchard Oriole - 2
84. Baltimore Oriole - 9
85. House Finch - 1
86. American Goldfinch - 34
87. House Sparrow - 1
III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3
2. Red-eared Turtle - 2
3. Midland Painted Turtle - 3
4. Northern Water Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Green Frog - many
2. Bullfrog - 3
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - many
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 27
3. American Copper - 1
4. Spring Azure - 4
5. Painted Lady - 1
6. Viceroy - 2
7. Monarch - 1
8. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
 




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