AUGUST 03, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:20pm; 1:40pm-5:20pm TEMP.: 66-84
COND.: Sunny & very warm. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Nancy Gilder, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles,
Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES.
1. Unidentified Mole - 1
2. Raccoon - 1 (swimming after an American Coot)
3. Coyote - 1
4. Woodchuck - 2
5. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
6. Muskrat - 4
7. Eastern Cottontail - 5
8. White-tailed Deer - 1
II. BIRDS: 87 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 293
2. Trumpeter Swan - 37 (18 young; 2 adults with neckbands: "M74" green & "1A2" yellow)
3. Wood Duck - 104
4. Mallard - 45
5. Pied-billed Grebe - 11
6. Double-crested Cormorant - 20
7. American Bittern - 1
8. Least Bittern - 1
9. Great Blue Heron - 180
10. Great Egret - 175
11. Snowy Egret - 30
12. Green Heron - 9
13. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 24
14. Bald Eagle - 8 (2 adult,6 juvenile)
15. Cooper's Hawk - 1
16. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
17. Common Gallinule - 1
18. American Coot - 1
19. Sandhill Crane - 2
20. Semipalmated Plover - 14
21. Killdeer - 127
22. Spotted Sandpiper - 19
23. Solitary Sandpiper - 5
24. Greater Yellowlegs - 2
25. Lesser Yellowlegs - 49
26. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 28
27. Least Sandpiper - 14
28. Pectoral Sandpiper - 19
29. Ring-billed Gull - 120
30. Herring Gull - 3
31. Caspian Tern - 7
32. Common Tern - 19
33. Rock Pigeon - 3
34. Mourning Dove - 53
35. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
36. Great Horned Owl - 1
37. Chimney Swift - 3
38. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
39. Belted Kingfisher - 3
40. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
41. Downy Woodpecker - 14
42. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
43. Northern Flicker - 10
44. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5
45. Willow Flycatcher - 11
46. Eastern Phoebe - 10
47. Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
48. Eastern Kingbird - 60
49. Warbling Vireo - 6
50. Red-eyed Vireo - 3
51. Blue Jay - 20
52. Horned Lark - 8
53. Purple Martin - 15
54. Tree Swallow - 63
55. Bank Swallow - 1
56. Barn Swallow - 109
57. Black-capped Chickadee - 1
58. Tufted Titmouse - 1
59. White-breasted Nuthatch - 12
60. Carolina Wren - 2
61. House Wren - 18
62. Marsh Wren - 5
63. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3
64. American Robin - 89
65. Gray Catbird - 42
66. Brown Thrasher - 2
67. European Starling - 229
68. Cedar Waxwing - 19
69. Common Yellowthroat - 38
70. Yellow Warbler - 37
71. Eastern Towhee - 2
72. Chipping Sparrow - 15
73. Field Sparrow - 20
74. Savannah Sparrow - 1
75. Song Sparrow - 73
76. Swamp Sparrow - 16
77. Northern Cardinal - 29
78. Indigo Bunting - 30
79. Dickcissel - 5
80. Red-winged Blackbird - 706
81. Common Grackle - 41
82. Brown-headed Cowbird - 6
83. Orchard Oriole - 1
84. Baltimore Oriole - 11
85. House Finch - 25
86. American Goldfinch - 91
87. House Sparrow - 42
III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 
1. Map Turtle - 4
2. Blanding's Turtle - 2
3. Eastern Garter Snake - 1
4. Black Rat Snake - 3
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog
2. Green Frog
3. Northern Leopard Frog
V. BUTTERFLIES: 13 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail
2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
3. Cabbage White
4. Clouded Sulphur
5. Summer Azure
6. Pearl Crescent
7. Question Mark 
8. Eastern Comma
9. Red Admiral
10. Buckeye
11. Red-spotted Purple
12. Viceroy
13. Monarch

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. 


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