First, a note regarding the May 04, 2014 Census. One species was left off of the count. Add 31 (all in one flock) of Lapland Longspurs found along Krause Rd.

JUNE 01, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:10pm; 2:00pm-6:20pm ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes minus the Adam Grimm Prairie.
TEMP.: 65-82 COND.: Sunny, warm & breezy. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Linda Nenner, Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 
1. Raccoon - 3
2. Woodchuck - 3
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 7
4. Beaver - 1 (young)
5. Muskrat - 1
6. Eastern Cottontail - 9
7. White-tailed Deer - 4 (2 buck,2 doe)
II. BIRDS: 95 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 379
2. Trumpeter Swan - 24 (6 cygnets & one adult with yellow neckband "1A2")
3. Wood Duck - 69
4. American Black Duck - 1
5. Mallard - 120
6. Blue-winged Teal - 3
7. Green-winged Teal - 2 (male & female together)
8. Hooded Merganser - 1 (female)
9. Pied-billed Grebe - 15 (3 young)
10. Double-crested Cormorant - 14
11. Great Blue Heron - 77
12. Great Egret - 137
13. Snowy Egret - 7
14. Green Heron - 6
15. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 6
16. Bald Eagle - 6 (2 adult,4 immature)
17. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
18. Virginia Rail - 1
19. Sora - 2
20. Common Gallinule - 3
21. American Coot - 3
22. Sandhill Crane - 4 (1 single adult & 1 pair with a "football-sized" young in Pool 2C)
23. Black-bellied Plover - 2
24. Killdeer - 33
25. Spotted Sandpiper - 1
26. Ruddy Turnstone - 1
27. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1
??. Unidentified "Peep" Sandpiper Species - 1 (far away in very bad light)
28. Dunlin - 2
29. American Woodcock - 1
30. Ring-billed Gull - 6
31. Herring Gull - 3
32. Common Tern - 38
33. Forster's Tern - 3
34. Rock Pigeon - 1
35. Mourning Dove - 10
36. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
37. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1
38. Great Horned Owl - 3
39. Chimney Swift - 2
40. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
41. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
42. Downy Woodpecker - 8
43. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
44. Northern Flicker - 4
45. American Kestrel - 1
46. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 8
47. Willow Flycatcher - 24
48. Eastern Phoebe - 3
49. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6
50. Eastern Kingbird - 29
51. Warbling Vireo - 24
52. Red-eyed Vireo - 6
53. Blue Jay - 8
54. Horned Lark - 6
55. Purple Martin - 6
56. Tree Swallow - 133
57. Bank Swallow - 2
58. Cliff Swallow - 40 (20 nests)
59. Barn Swallow - 38
60. Tufted Titmouse - 2
61. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
62. Carolina Wren - 1
63. House Wren - 23
64. Marsh Wren - 16
65. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
66. American Robin - 50
67. Gray Catbird - 40
68. Northern Mockingbird - 2
69. Brown Thrasher - 3
70. European Starling - 44
71. Cedar Waxwing - 83
72. Northern Waterthrush - 1
73. Prothonotary Warbler - 10 (7m,3f)
74. Common Yellowthroat - 22
75. American Redstart - 2
76. Magnolia Warbler - 1
77. Yellow Warbler - 133
78. Eastern Towhee - 2
79. Chipping Sparrow - 1
80. Field Sparrow - 9
81. Henslow's Sparrow - 1
82. Song Sparrow - 47
83. Swamp Sparrow - 9
84. Northern Cardinal - 30
85. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
86. Indigo Bunting - 5
87. Red-winged Blackbird - 605
88. Eastern Meadowlark - 2
89. Common Grackle - 117
90. Brown-headed Cowbird - 30
91. Orchard Oriole - 2
92. Baltimore Oriole - 13
93. House Finch - 2
94. American Goldfinch - 12
95. House Sparrow - 8
III. REPTILES: 6 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 2
2. Map Turtle - 10
3. Red-eared Turtle - 2
4. Midland Painted Turtle - 13
5. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1
6. Eastern Garter Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog
2. Green Frog
V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Longnose Gar - 2
2. Bowfin - 3
3. Common Carp - yep
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2
2. Clouded Sulphur - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. 

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