MAY 06, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:20pm; 2:30pm-7:00pm TEMP.: 50-64-62 COND.: Mostly sunny during the morning; clouds/sun mix after lunch; wind NE at 5-15mph.
GROUP I: 2 observers; GROUP II: 6 observers. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting.
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Jeff & Marian Kraus (morning only), Rick Nelson (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, John Shaffer, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
2. Meadow Vole - 1
3. Muskrat - 2
II. BIRDS: 117 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 220
2. Mute Swan - 2
3. Trumpeter Swan - 26 (one with neckband "1A2" - yellow)
4. Wood Duck - 20
5. Gadwall - 2 (1m,1f)
6. American Wigeon - 2 (1m,1f)
7. Mallard - 55
8. Blue-winged Teal - 14
9. Green-winged Teal - 4 (2m,2f)
10. Greater Scaup - 15 (m - in Lake Erie)
11. White-winged Scoter - 1 (adult female - with the scaup in Lake Erie)
12. Hooded Merganser - 1 (m)
13. Red-breasted Merganser - 1 (f)
14. Ring-necked Pheasant - 1
15. Pied-billed Grebe - 7
16. Double-crested Cormorant - 32
17. Great Blue Heron - 78
18. Great Egret - 101
19. Snowy Egret - 4
20. Green Heron - 1
21. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
22. Turkey Vulture - 8
23. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 immature)
24. Northern Harrier - 2
25. Cooper's Hawk - 2
26. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
27. American Kestrel - 1
28. Virginia Rail - 1
29. Sora - 3
30. Common Moorhen - 12
31. American Coot - 47
32. Sandhill Crane - 2
33. Semipalmated Plover - 3
34. Killdeer - 20 (1 nest with 4 eggs)
35. Greater Yellowlegs - 9
36. Lesser Yellowlegs - 8
37. Solitary Sandpiper - 5
38. Spotted Sandpiper - 6
39. Least Sandpiper - 4
40. Dunlin - 194
41. Herring Gull - 20
42. Common Tern - 11
43. Forster's Tern - 1
44. Rock Pigeon - 1
45. Mourning Dove - 8
46. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1
47. Chimney Swift - 3
48. Belted Kingfisher - 1
49. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
50. Downy Woodpecker - 6
51. Northern Flicker - 6
52. Willow Flycatcher - 2
53. Least Flycatcher - 2
54. Eastern Phoebe - 2
55. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6
56. Eastern Kingbird - 26
57. Warbling Vireo - 39
58. Blue Jay - 17
59. Horned Lark - 7
60. Purple Martin - 22
61. Tree Swallow - 177
62. Cliff Swallow - 30
63. Barn Swallow - 37
64. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
65. Tufted Titmouse - 2
66. Carolina Wren - 1
67. House Wren - 29
68. Marsh Wren - 22
69. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
70. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4
71. Veery - 1
72. Swainson's Thrush - 1
73. Wood Thrush - 2
74. American Robin - 41
75. Gray Catbird - 62
76. Brown Thrasher - 2
77. European Starling - 57
78. Nashville Warbler - 3
79. Northern Parula - 1
80. Yellow Warbler - 327
81. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
82. Magnolia Warbler - 3
83. Cape May Warbler - 1
84. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 30
85. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2
86. Palm Warbler - 17
87. Cerulean Warbler - 1
88. Black-and-white Warbler - 3
89. Prothonotary Warbler - 6
90. Ovenbird - 1
91. Northern Waterthrush - 5
92. Common Yellowthroat - 38
93. Wilson's Warbler - 1
94. Canada Warbler - 1
95. Scarlet Tanager - 1
96. Eastern Towhee - 1
97. American Tree Sparrow - 1
98. Chipping Sparrow - 5
99. Field Sparrow - 9
100. Savannah Sparrow - 6
101. Henslow's Sparrow - 2 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
102. Song Sparrow - 40
103. Swamp Sparrow - 13
104. White-throated Sparrow - 3
105. White-crowned Sparrow - 7
106. Northern Cardinal - 32
107. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3
108. Indigo Bunting - 7
109. Red-winged Blackbird - 430
110. Eastern Meadowlark - 2
111. Rusty Blackbird - 5
112. Common Grackle - 90
113. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12
114. Orchard Oriole - 1
115. Baltimore Oriole - 29
116. American Goldfinch - 18
117. House Sparrow - 9
III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 2
2. Northern Water Snake - 1
3. Eastern Garter Snake - 1
4. Black Rat Snake - 2
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Gray Treefrog
2. Bullfrog
3. Green Frog
4. Northern Leopard Frog
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 4
3. Clouded Sulphur - 4
4. Pearl Crescent - 2
5. Gray Comma - 3
6. Red Admiral - 6
7. Painted Lady - 1
8. Monarch - 2

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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