JUNE 07, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-12:20pm; 1:40pm-6:50pm.TEMP.: 62-85-76 COND.: Cloudy & breezy early; warming throughout & turning sunny; late afternoon front, cloudy, cooler & windy; rain from 6:00pm-6:40pm. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Michael O'Brien (morning only),Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.   
   - Raccoon - 5   

   - Woodchuck - 2
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
   - Muskrat - 4
   - Eastern Cottontail - 13
   - White-tailed Deer - 3
II. BIRDS: 78 SPECIES.   
   - Canada Goose - 358   

   - Trumpeter Swan - 21 (3 young,1 nest)
   - Wood Duck - 24
   - Mallard - 78
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 6
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 79
   - Great Blue Heron - 78
   - Great Egret - 100
   - Snowy Egret - 1
   - Black-crowned Night-Heron - 16
   - Turkey Vulture - 24
   - Osprey - 1
   - Bald Eagle - 7 (4 adult,3 immature)
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 7
   - Common Gallinule - 3
   - American Coot - 10
   - Sandhill Crane - 10
   - Killdeer - 10
   - Spotted Sandpiper - 1
   - Dunlin - 1
   - Bonaparte's Gull - 50
   - Ring-billed Gull - 3
   - Herring Gull - 2
   - Caspian Tern - 2
   - Common Tern - 91
   - Mourning Dove - 20
   - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
   - Black-billed Cuckoo - 1
   - Great Horned Owl - 1
   - Chimney Swift - 2
   - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
   - Downy Woodpecker - 7
   - Northern Flicker - 8
   - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 11
   - Willow Flycatcher - 18
   - Eastern Phoebe - 4
   - Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
   - Eastern Kingbird - 24
   - Warbling Vireo - 19
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 2
   - Blue Jay - 9
   - Horned Lark - 3
   - Purple Martin - 17
   - Tree Swallow - 185
   - Cliff Swallow - 21 (19 active nests)
   - Barn Swallow - 58
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 4
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
   - House Wren - 19
   - Marsh Wren - 14
   - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3
   - Eastern Bluebird - 4
   - American Robin - 42
   - Gray Catbird - 33
   - Brown Thrasher - 4
   - European Starling - 55
   - Cedar Waxwing - 15
   - Prothonotary Warbler - 5
   - Common Yellowthroat - 37
   - Yellow Warbler - 195
   - Chipping Sparrow - 7
   - Field Sparrow - 4
   - Savannah Sparrow - 1
   - Henslow's Sparrow - 4 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
   - Song Sparrow - 33
   - Swamp Sparrow - 15
   - Northern Cardinal - 24
   - Indigo Bunting - 12
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 491
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 4
   - Common Grackle - 83
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 24
   - Orchard Oriole - 5
   - Baltimore Oriole - 43
   - House Finch - 17
   - American Goldfinch - 32
   - House Sparrow - 22
III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES.   
   - Common Snapping Turtle - 2   

   - Map Turtle - 9
   - Midland Painted Turtle - 3
   - Northern Water Snake - 2
   - Eastern Milk Snake - 1
AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.   
   - Bullfrog - 4   

   - Green Frog - 2
FISHES: 1 SPECIES.   
   - Common Carp - yes   

BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES.   
   - Cabbage Butterfly - 2   

   - Clouded Sulphur - 3
   - Summer Azure - 2
   - Pearl Crescent - 1
   - Monarch - 1
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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