SEPTEMBER 05, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:45pm; 2:00pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 48-68 COND.: Mostly sunny & dry; winds SW at 10-15mph; exposed mudflats along Crane Creek. GROUP I: 4 persons. GROUP II: 6 persons. RTS.: Same morning and afternoon routes with much more time concentrated on exposed mudflats. OBS.: Aaron Bartley, Jeff & Maureen Buecking (morning only), Katie Clink (morning only), Rob & Sandy Harlan (morning only), Debra Kibble (afternoon only), Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Larry Raper (afternoon only), Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht (morning only).
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
2. Muskrat - 1
3. Eastern Cottontail - 1
4. White-tailed Deer - 2
II. BIRDS: 115 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 142
2. Trumpeter Swan - 25 (4 juv.)
3. Wood Duck - 93
4. Gadwall - 18
5. American Wigeon - 5
6. American Black Duck - 2
7. Mallard - 216
8. Blue-winged Teal - 119
9. Northern Shoveler - 13
10. Green-winged Teal - 100
11. Pied-billed Grebe - 2
12. Double-crested Cormorant - 28
13. Great Blue Heron - 56
14. Great Egret - 257
15. Snowy Egret - 6
16. Green Heron - 1
17. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
18. Turkey Vulture - 3
19. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 imm.)
20. Cooper's Hawk - 3
21. Red-tailed Hawk - 6
22. American Kestrel - 2
23. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (caught a Bonaparte's Gull)
24. Sora - 1
25. Common Moorhen - 2
26. Sandhill Crane - 3
27. Black-bellied Plover - 7
28. Semipalmated Plover - 5
29. Killdeer - 275
30. American Avocet - 1
31. Spotted Sandpiper - 2
32. Solitary Sandpiper - 3
33. Greater Yellowlegs - 10
34. Willet - 1
35. Lesser Yellowlegs - 142
36. Marbled Godwit - 1
37. Red Knot - 1
38. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 30
39. Least Sandpiper - 40
40. Baird's Sandpiper - 8
41. Pectoral Sandpiper - 25
42. Dunlin - 1
43. Stilt Sandpiper - 10
44. Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 3
45. Short-billed Dowitcher - 2
46. Red-necked Phalarope - 1
47. Bonaparte's Gull - 86
48. Ring-billed Gull - 215
49. Herring Gull - 20
50. Caspian Tern - 32
51. Common Tern - 700
52. Forster's Tern - 30
53. Mourning Dove - 51
54. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
55. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3
56. Belted Kingfisher - 1
57. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
58. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
59. Downy Woodpecker - 21
60. Hairy Woodpecker - 5
61. Northern Flicker - 5
62. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 8
63. Least Flycatcher - 2
64. Eastern Phoebe - 14
65. Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
66. Eastern Kingbird - 4
67. Warbling Vireo - 25
68. Philadelphia Vireo - 1
69. Red-eyed Vireo - 7
70. Blue Jay - 27
71. Tree Swallow - 805
72. Barn Swallow - 36
73. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
74. Tufted Titmouse - 4
75. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
76. Carolina Wren - 2
77. House Wren - 22
78. Marsh Wren - 3
79. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3
80. Eastern Bluebird - 3
81. Swainson's Thrush - 4
82. American Robin - 60
83. Gray Catbird - 43
84. Brown Thrasher - 1
85. European Starling - 1,355
86. Cedar Waxwing - 28
87. Tennessee Warbler - 1
88. Nashville Warbler - 2
89. Magnolia Warbler - 3
90. Cape May Warbler - 1
91. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
92. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2
93. Palm Warbler - 9
94. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1
95. Blackpoll Warbler - 15
96. American Redstart - 16
97. Common Yellowthroat - 61
98. Wilson's Warbler - 1
99. Canada Warbler - 1
100. Chipping Sparrow - 1
101. Field Sparrow - 62
102. Song Sparrow - 17
103. Swamp Sparrow - 3
104. Northern Cardinal - 12
105. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2
106. Indigo Bunting - 52
107. Bobolink - 1
108. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,600
109. Eastern Meadowlark - 1
110. Yellow-headed Blackbird - 1
111. Common Grackle - 10
112. Brown-headed Cowbird - 18
113. House Finch - 4
114. American Goldfinch - 136
115. House Sparrow - 4
III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - many
IV. BUTTERFLIES:  11 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1
2. Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
3. Cabbage Butterfly - 50
4. Clouded Sulphur - 100
5. Bronze Copper - 1
6. Summer Azure - 1
7. Pearl Crescent - 5
8. Common Buckeye - 50
9. Red-spotted Purple - 1
10. Monarch - 50 (strong Monarch migration throughout day)
11. Least Skipper - 4
V. DRAGONFLIES: 8 SPECIES.
1. Carolina Saddlebags - 1
2. Black Saddlebags - 5
3. Green Darner - 5
4. Halloween Pennant - 1
5. Eastern Forktail - 5
6. Spotwing Glider - 1
7. Eastern Pondhawk - 1
8. Autumn Meadowhawk - 10
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
  
 




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