MAY 01, 2011 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-1:00pm; 2:30pm-8:00pm TEMP.: 54-64
COND.: Overcast; winds SW at 10-15mph.
ROUTES: Same morning & afternoon routes as usual except where closed for eagle nesting.
OBS.: Aaron Bartley & his dad, Katie Clink (morning only), Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Bert Szabo (afternoon only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 
1. Raccoon - 1
2. Mink - 1
3. Woodchuck - 2
4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
5. Muskrat - 6
6. Eastern Cottontail - 3
7. White-tailed Deer - 7
II. BIRDS: 140 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 371
2. Mute Swan - 4
3. Trumpeter Swan - 30 (yellow neckband "3A0")
4. Wood Duck - 70
5. Gadwall - 110
6. American Wigeon - 9
7. Mallard - 33
8. Blue-winged Teal - 52
9. Northern Shoveler - 5
10. Green-winged Teal - 14
11. Redhead - 2
12. Ring-necked Duck - 16
13. Lesser Scaup - 26
14. Hooded Merganser - 1
15. Ruddy Duck - 108
16. Pied-billed Grebe - 39
17. Horned Grebe - 2
18. Double-crested Cormorant - 64
19. American Bittern - 1
20. Great Blue Heron - 92
21. Great Egret - 94
22. Cattle Egret - 5
23. Green Heron - 13
24. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 4
25. Turkey Vulture - 2
26. Osprey - 1
27. Bald Eagle - 17 (6 adult, 11 immature)
28. Northern Harrier - 1
29. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
30. Cooper's Hawk - 2
31. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
32. American Kestrel - 1
33. Merlin - 1
34. Peregrine Falcon - 1
35. Sora - 2
36. Common Moorhen - 2
37. American Coot - 241
38. Sandhill Crane - 1
39. Killdeer - 19
40. Greater Yellowlegs - 3
41. Lesser Yellowlegs - 12
42. Solitary Sandpiper - 5
43. Spotted Sandpiper - 8
44. Ring-billed Gull - 37
45. Herring Gull - 34
46. Caspian Tern - 5
47. Common Tern - 30
48. Mourning Dove - 13
49. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1
50. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
51. Chimney Swift - 10
52. Belted Kingfisher - 4
53. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8
54. Downy Woodpecker - 16
55. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
56. Northern Flicker - 13
57. Eastern Phoebe - 3
58. Great Crested Flycatcher - 5
59. Eastern KIngbird - 14
60. White-eyed Vireo - 2
61. Blue-headed Vireo - 8
62. Warbling Vireo - 8
63. Blue Jay - 340
64. American Crow - 2
65. Horned Lark - 2
66. Purple Martin - 8
67. Tree Swallow - 455
68. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8
69. Bank Swallow - 5
70. Cliff Swallow - 38
71. Barn Swallow - 31
72. Black-capped Chickadee - 5
73. Tufted Titmouse - 1
74. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
75. Brown Creeper - 1
76. Carolina Wren - 1
77. House Wren - 16
78. Marsh Wren - 3
79. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 6
80. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 11
81. Veery - 3
82. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1
83. Swainson's Thrush - 10
84. Hermit Thrush - 3
85. Wood Thrush - 5
86. American Robin - 66 (1 nest with 1 egg)
87. Gray Catbird - 51
88. Northern Mockingbird - 1
89. Brown Thrasher - 6
90. European Starling - 38
91. Blue-winged Warbler - 2
92. Tennessee Warbler - 2
93. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
94. Nashville Warbler - 17
95. Northern Parula - 2
96. Yellow Warbler - 102
97. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 6
98. Magnolia Warbler - 4
99. Cape May Warbler - 1
100. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 6
101. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 331
102. Black-throated Green WArbler - 4
103. Yellow-throated Warbler - 1
104. Palm Warbler - 114
105. Black-and-white Warbler - 3
106. Prothonotary Warbler - 1
107. Ovenbird - 2
108. Northern Waterthrush - 9
109. Common Yellowthroat - 21
110. Hooded Warbler - 1
111. Wilson's Warbler - 1
112. Yellow-breasted Chat - 1
113. Scarlet Tanager - 1
114. Eastern Towhee - 3
115. American Tree Sparrow - 3
116. Chipping Sparrow - 10
117. Clay-colored Sparrow - 1 (obs.: AB,EP,JR,DV)
118. Field Sparrow - 17
119. Savannah Sparrow - 4
120. Grasshopper Sparrow - 1
121. Song Sparrow - 55
122. Lincoln's Sparrow - 9
123. Swamp Sparrow - 22
124. White-throated Sparrow - 124
125. White-crowned Sparrow - 42
126. Dark-eyed Junco - 1
127. Northern Cardinal - 38
128. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 13
129. Bobolink - 3
130. Red-winged Blackbird - 486
131. Eastern Meadowlark - 1
132. Rusty Blackbird - 6
133. Common Grackle - 110
134. Brown-headed Cowbird - 40
135. Orchard Oriole - 1
136. Baltimore Oriole - 9
137. House Finch - 4
138. Pine Siskin - 1
139. American Goldfinch - 22
140. House Sparrow - 6
III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
 

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