JUNE 03, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:20pm; 1:40pm-6:20pm TEMP.: 61-77 COND.: Mostly sunny & windy; wind W/NW 10-30mph.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Bert Szabo, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 1
2. Woodchuck - 3
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
4. Muskrat - 3
5. Eastern Cottontail - 2
6. White-tailed Deer - 4 (2 buck,2 doe)
II. BIRDS: 90 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 215
2. Trumpeter Swan - 76 (1 with yellow neck-band "3A0")
3. Wood Duck - 64
4. American Wigeon - 1 (male)
5. American Black Duck - 4
6. Mallard - 317
7. Blue-winged Teal - 2 (1m,1f)
8. Hooded Merganser - 1 (f)
9. Pied-billed Grebe - 7
10. Double-crested Cormorant - 28
11. American Bittern - 2
12. Great Blue Heron - 146
13. Great Egret - 158
14. Snowy Egret - 5
15. Green Heron - 2
16. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 10
17. Turkey Vulture - 4
18. Bald Eagle - 8 (1 adult,7 immature)
19. Northern Harrier - 1
20. Cooper's Hawk - 1
21. Red-tailed Hawk - 3
22. Common Gallinule - 4
23. American Coot - 1
24. Black-bellied Plover - 2
25. Killdeer - 38
26. Greater Yellowlegs - 2
27. Spotted Sandpiper - 3
28. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 108
29. Dunlin - 4
30. American Woodcock - 1
31. Bonaparte's Gull - 23
32. Ring-billed Gull - 10
33. Herring Gull - 35
34. Caspian Tern - 2
35. Common Tern - 68
36. Mourning Dove - 10
37. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
38. Chimney Swift - 1
39. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
40. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8
41. Downy Woodpecker - 6
42. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
43. Northern Flicker - 6
44. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6
45. Willow Flycatcher - 30
46. Eastern Phoebe - 5
47. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6
48. Eastern Kingbird - 33
49. Warbling Vireo - 21
50. Red-eyed Vireo - 8
51. Blue Jay - 6
52. Horned Lark - 5
53. Purple Martin - 42
54. Tree Swallow - 227
55. Bank Swallow - 2
56. Cliff Swallow - 31
57. Barn Swallow - 35
58. Black-capped Chickadee - 1
59. Tufted Titmouse - 1
60. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
61. House Wren - 17
62. Marsh Wren - 33
63. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
64. Wood Thrush - 1
65. American Robin - 92
66. Gray Catbird - 20
67. Brown Thrasher - 4
68. European Starling - 75
69. Cedar Waxwing - 14
70. Yellow Warbler - 209
71. Prothonotary Warbler - 1
72. Common Yellowthroat - 23
73. Chipping Sparrow - 5
74. Field Sparrow - 24 (1 nest with 3 chicks)
75. Savannah Sparrow - 1
76. Henslow's Sparrow - 1
77. Song Sparrow - 41
78. Swamp Sparrow - 18
79. Northern Cardinal - 29
80. Indigo Bunting - 30
81. Dickcissel - 8
82. Bobolink - 3
83. Red-winged Blackbird - 627
84. Common Grackle - 75
85. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16
86. Orchard Oriole - 1
87. Baltimore Oriole - 16
88. House Finch - 2
89. American Goldfinch - 32
90. House Sparrow - 17
III. REPTILES: 6 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 2
2. Red-eared Turtle - 3
3. Midland Painted Turtle - 11
4. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 32
5. Northern Water Snake - 2
6. Eastern Garter Snake - 3
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog
2. Green Frog
3. Northern Leopard Frog
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 12 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 2
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 16
3. Clouded Sulphur - 3
4. Orange Sulphur - 4
5. Summer Azure - 3
6. Gray Comma - 1
7. Red Admiral - 1
8. Buckeye - 1
9. Red-spotted Purple - 1
10. Viceroy - 1
11. Monarch - 2
12. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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