JUNE 02, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.

TIME: 8:00am-12:40pm; 2:10pm-5:50pm TEMP.: 64-72
COND.: Mostly cloudy, occasionally partly sunny; breezy with winds W-SW at 10-15mph.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting.
OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 1
2. Mink - 6 (4 kits)
3. Woodchuck - 1
4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
5. Muskrat - 3
6. Eastern Cottontail - 5
7. White-tailed Deer - 8 (1 buck,7 does)
II. BIRDS: 94 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 296
2. Mute Swan - 1
3. Trumpeter Swan - 40 (11 cygnets, 1 adult with yellow neckband "3A8")
4. Wood Duck - 70
5. American Wigeon - 3 (males)
6. American Black Duck - 2
7. Mallard - 74
8. Blue-winged Teal - 8 (males)
9. Green-winged Teal - 2 (males)
10. Lesser Scaup - 3 (2m,1f)
11. Pied-billed Grebe - 1
12. Double-crested Cormorant - 19
13. American Bittern - 2
14. Great Blue Heron - 122
15. Great Egret - 177
16. Snowy Egret - 7
17. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3
18. Turkey Vulture - 14
19. Bald Eagle - 13 (4 adult, 8 immature, 1 juvenile in nest)
20. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
21. Sora - 2
22. Common Gallinule - 3
23. American Coot - 5
24. Semipalmated Plover - 12
25. Killdeer - 26
26. Spotted Sandpiper - 2
27. Ruddy Turnstone - 1
28. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 42
29. Least Sandpiper - 10
30. White-rumped Sandpiper - 1
31. Dunlin - 48
32. Herring Gull - 12
33. Caspian Tern - 2
34. Common Tern - 56
35. Forster's Tern - 3
36. Rock Pigeon - 1 (escape? - green band on right leg)
37. Mourning Dove - 24
38. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3
39. Great Horned Owl - 1
40. Chimney Swift - 1
41. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4
42. Belted Kingfisher - 1
43. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
44. Downy Woodpecker - 3
45. Northern Flicker - 7
46. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6
47. Acadian Flycatcher - 1
48. Alder Flycatcher - 1
49. Willow Flycatcher - 13
50. Eastern Phoebe - 5
51. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6
52. Eastern Kingbird - 42
53. Warbling Vireo - 24
54. Blue Jay - 12
55. Horned Lark - 4
56. Purple Martin - 36
57. Tree Swallow - 192
58. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
59. Bank Swallow - 2
60. Cliff Swallow - 41 (about 20 nests)
61. Barn Swallow - 50
62. Black-capped Chickadee - 3
63. Tufted Titmouse - 1
64. House Wren - 12
65. Marsh Wren - 38
66. Eastern Bluebird - 2
67. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1
68. American Robin - 64
69. Gray Catbird - 20
70. Brown Thrasher - 1
71. European Starling - 62
72. Cedar Waxwing - 41
73. Prothonotary Warbler - 3
74. Common Yellowthroat - 30
75. Yellow Warbler - 122
76. Blackpoll Warbler - 2 (1m,1f)
77. Chipping Sparrow - 4
78. Field Sparrow - 18
79. Savannah Sparrow - 6
80. Henslow's Sparrow - 2 (Stange Prairie)
81. Song Sparrow - 48
82. Swamp Sparrow - 11
83. Northern Cardinal - 40
84. Indigo Bunting - 9
85. Dickcissel - 1 (Stange Prairie)
86. Red-winged Blackbird - 491 (1 nest with 4 eggs)
87. Eastern Meadowlark - 2
88. Common Grackle - 79
89. Brown-headed Cowbird - 17
90. Orchard Oriole - 2
91. Baltimore Oriole - 14
92. House Finch - 5
93. American Goldfinch - 31
94. House Sparrow - 16
III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1
2. Red-eared Turtle - 1
3. Midland Painted Turtle - 9
4. Northern Water Snake - 1
5. Eastern Garter Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog
2. Green Frog
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - yes!
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 3
2. Clouded Sulphur - 2
3. Summer Azure - 4
4. Mourning Cloak - 1
5. Red-spotted Purple - 1
6. Viceroy - 2

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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