AUGUST 07, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census
TIME: 8:00am-11:30am; 1:00pm-5:10pm TEMP.: 75-88-74
COND.: Sunny, hot & humid; light rain from 4:30pm-5:00pm; wind W at 5mph
GROUP I: 4 persons GROUP II: 3 persons. ROUTES: Same usual morning &
afternoon routes. OBS.: Katie Clink & Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce,
Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. (NOTE: Totals
include morning (5:00am-10:00am) shorebird banding results from Tom Bartlett &
Kevin Norris).
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Mink - 1
2. Woodchuck - 1
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
4. Meadow Vole - 1
5. White-tailed Deer - 2
II. BIRDS: 87 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 125
2. Trumpeter Swan - 33 (13 immature; adult neckbands: M74(green),1A3(yellow) & 8A0 (yellow)
3. Wood Duck - 94
4. Gadwall - 2
5. Mallard - 120
6. Blue-winged Teal - 5
7. Pied-billed Grebe - 6
8. Double-crested Cormorant - 14
9. Least Bittern - 2
10. Great Blue Heron - 63
11. Great Egret - 125
12. Snowy Egret - 30
13. Green Heron - 3
14. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 4
15. Turkey Vulture - 1
16. Osprey - 1
17. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature)
18. Cooper's Hawk - 1
19. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
20. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
21. American Coot - 1
22. Sandhill Crane - 7
23. Semipalmated Plover - 8
24. Killdeer - 38
25. Greater Yellowlegs - 14
26. Lesser Yellowlegs - 54
27. Solitary Sandpiper - 2
28. Spotted Sandpiper - 8
29. Marbled Godwit - 1
30. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 15
31. Least Sandpiper - 45
32. Pectoral Sandpiper - 2
33. Stilt Sandpiper - 1
34. Short-billed Dowitcher - 37
35. Long-billed Dowitcher - 2
36. Ring-billed Gull - 49
37. Herring Gull - 1
38. Caspian Tern - 3
39. Common Tern - 6
40. Rock Pigeon - 1
41. Mourning Dove - 23
42. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1
43. Chimney Swift - 1
44. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 12
45. Belted Kingfisher - 1
46. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
47. Downy Woodpecker - 10
48. Northern Flicker - 10
49. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3
50. Willow Flycatcher - 10
51. Eastern Phoebe - 5
52. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
53. Eastern Kingbird - 52
54. Warbling Vireo - 6
55. Blue Jay - 8
56. Purple Martin - 15
57. Tree Swallow - 240
58. Bank Swallow - 5
59. Cliff Swallow - 1
60. Barn Swallow - 70
61. Black-capped Chickadee - 2
62. Tufted Titmouse - 5
63. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
64. Carolina Wren - 1
65. House Wren - 7
66. Marsh Wren - 10
67. American Robin - 35
68. Gray Catbird - 40
69. European Starling - 326
70. Cedar Waxwing - 53
71. Yellow Warbler - 38
72. Prothonotary Warbler - 1
73. Common Yellowthroat - 11
74. Chipping Sparrow - 1
75. Field Sparrow - 12
76. Song Sparrow - 69
77. Swamp Sparrow - 11
78. Northern Cardinal - 30
79. Indigo Bunting - 28
80. Bobolink - 7
81. Red-winged Blackbird - 153
82. Common Grackle - 39
83. Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
84. Baltimore Oriole - 4
85. House Finch - 10
86. American Goldfinch - 39
87. House Sparrow - 3
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Red-eared Turtle - 3
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 6
3. Northern Water Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Green Frog - 4
2. Northern Leopard Frog - 17
V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES.
1. Longnose Gar - 1
2. Common Carp - yes
3. Unknown Minnows - many
4. Pumpkinseed - 7
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 10 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3
2. Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
3. Cabbage Butterfly - 22
4. Clouded Sulphur - 7
5. Summer Azure - 1
6. Pearl Crescent - 5
7. Buckeye - 9
8. Viceroy - 2
9. Monarch - 6
10. Silver-spotted Skipper - 6
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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