AUGUST 01, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:20pm-5:15pm TEMP.: 67-83 COND.: Warm, mostly sunny, turning hot. Wind NE @ 5-10mph, most areas flooded due to wind direction.
ROUTES: Same morning and afternoon routes. GROUP I: 4 people; GROUP II: 3 people. OBS.: Aaron Bartley, Katie Clink & Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Coyote - 1
2. Woodchuck - 1
3. Muskrat - 1
4. Eastern Cottontail - 5
5. White-tailed Deer - 1 (fawn)
II. BIRDS: 89 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 130
2. Mute Swan - 2
3. Trumpeter Swan - 38 (15 adult - 1 yellow neckband "3A0", 1 yellow neckband too far to read, 23 young)
4. Wood Duck - 162
5. Mallard - 213
6. Blue-winged Teal - 5
7. Pied-billed Grebe - 19
8. Double-crested Cormorant - 18
9. Least Bittern - 1
10. Great Blue Heron - 127
11. Great Egret - 254
12. Snowy Egret - 9
13. Green Heron - 3
14. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
15. Turkey Vulture - 3
16. Bald Eagle - 7 (2 adult, 5 immature)
17. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
18. American Kestrel - 2
19. Common Moorhen - 2
20. Black-bellied Plover - 1
21. Semipalmated Plover - 1
22. Killdeer - 38
23. Greater Yellowlegs - 9
24. Lesser Yellowlegs - 41
25. Solitary Sandpiper - 1
26. Spotted Sandpiper - 6
27. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 3
28. Least Sandpiper - 11
29. Short-billed Dowitcher - 2
30. Ring-billed Gull - 275
31. Herring Gull - 6
32. Caspian Tern - 17
33. Common Tern - 62
34. Forster's Tern - 1
35. Mourning Dove - 19
36. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4
37. Great Horned Owl - 2
38. Chimney Swift - 1
39. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 9
40. Belted Kingfisher - 3
41. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
42. Downy Woodpecker - 14
43. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
44. Northern Flicker - 16
45. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 12
46. Willow Flycatcher - 13
47. Eastern Phoebe - 11
48. Great Crested Flycatcher - 10
49. Eastern Kingbird - 35
50. Warbling Vireo - 16
51. Red-eyed Vireo - 1
52. Blue Jay - 12
53. Purple Martin - 35
54. Tree Swallow - 418
55. Bank Swallow - 4
56. Cliff Swallow - 2
57. Barn Swallow - 79
58. Black-capped Chickadee - 2
59. Tufted Titmouse - 4
60. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
61. Carolina Wren - 2
62. House Wren - 30
63. Marsh Wren - 8
64. Eastern Bluebird - 3
65. American Robin - 64
66. Gray Catbird - 50
67. Brown Thrasher - 8
68. European Starling - 583
69. Cedar Waxwing - 12
70. Yellow Warbler - 33
71. Prothonotary Warbler - 4
72. Common Yellowthroat - 32
73. Eastern Towhee - 1
74. Chipping Sparrow - 3
75. Field Sparrow - 23
76. Song Sparrow - 81
77. Swamp Sparrow - 14
78. Northern Cardinal - 53
79. Indigo Bunting - 33
80. Dickcissel - 3
81. Bobolink - 7
82. Red-winged Blackbird - 357
83. Eastern Meadowlark - 3
84. Common Grackle - 78
85. Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
86. Baltimore Oriole - 7
87. House Finch - 10
88. American Goldfinch - 63
89. House Sparrow - 3
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Red-eared Turtle - 3
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Green Frog - many
2. Northern Leopard Frog - 6
V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - many
2. Bluegill - 20
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 17 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 8
2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3
3. Cabbage Butterfly - 47
4. Clouded Sulphur - 19
5. Dainty Sulphur - 2
6. Bronze Copper - 1
7. Summer Azure - 9
8. Pearl Crescent - 2
9. Mourning Cloak - 1
10. Red Admiral - 1
11. Common Buckeye - 17
12. Red-spotted Purple - 1
13. Viceroy - 8
14. Common Wood Nymph - 2
15. Monarch - 17
16. Silver-spotted Skipper - 6
17. Fiery Skipper - 1
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.




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