SEPTEMBER 06, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning and afternoon routes.TIME: 8:00am-12:10pm; 1:40pm-6:50pm TEMP.: 68-89COND.: Warm early turning sunny, hot & humid.OBS.: Mike Edgington, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only),Tony Szilagye (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.   
   - Raccoon - 1   

   - Woodchuck - 1
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
   - Muskrat - 1
   - White-tailed Deer - 3
II. BIRDS: 112 SPECIES.   
   - Canada Goose - 513   

   - Trumpeter Swan - 40 (neckbands: green "74M"; yellow "1A0"; yellow "9A0")
   - Wood Duck - 42
   - American Wigeon - 4
   - American Black Duck - 16
   - Mallard - 217
   - Blue-winged Teal - 198
   - Northern Shoveler - 4
   - Northern Pintail - 3
   - Green-winged Teal - 23
   - Hooded Merganser - 1 (female)
   - Ruddy Duck - 1 (male)
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 35
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 52
   - Least Bittern - 1
   - Great Blue Heron - 77
   - Great Egret - 231
   - Snowy Egret - 6
   - Green Heron - 4
   - Black-crowned Night-Heron - 11
   - Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature)
   - Northern Harrier - 1
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 7
   - Sora - 3
   - Common Gallinule - 6
   - Sandhill Crane - 5
   - Semipalmated Plover - 2
   - Killdeer - 44
   - Spotted Sandpiper - 2
   - Greater Yellowlegs - 12
   - Lesser Yellowlegs - 23
   - Stilt Sandpiper - 8
   - Pectoral Sandpiper - 8
   - Long-billed Dowitcher - 2
   - Wilson's Snipe - 1
   - Red-necked Phalarope - 5 (all together in Moist Soil Unit 3 - no public access)
   - Bonaparte's Gull - 1
   - Ring-billed Gull - 230
   - Herring Gull - 8
   - Caspian Tern - 31
   - Common Tern - 5
   - Mourning Dove - 110
   - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
   - Great Horned Owl - 1
   - Chimney Swift - 5
   - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3
   - Belted Kingfisher - 9
   - Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (1 adult,1 heard only)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9
   - Downy Woodpecker - 28
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 1
   - Northern Flicker - 11
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (only second record in history of monthly census)
   - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 11
   - Willow Flycatcher - 5
   - Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 2
   - Eastern Phoebe - 1
   - Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
   - Eastern KIngbird - 10
   - Warbling Vireo - 55
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 11
   - Blue Jay - 45
   - American Crow - 1
   - Horned Lark - 6
   - Tree Swallow - 44
   - Barn Swallow - 3
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 11
   - Tufted Titmouse - 2
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 15
   - House Wren - 9
   - Marsh Wren - 4
   - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
   - Veery - 1
   - Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1
   - Swainson's Thrush - 31
   - American Robin - 127
   - Gray Catbird - 61
   - Brown Thrasher - 1
   - European Starling - 311
   - Cedar Waxwing - 21
   - Ovenbird - 1
   - Black-and-white Warbler - 1
   - Prothonotary Warbler - 1
   - Tennessee Warbler - 2
   - Nashville Warbler - 1
   - Common Yellowthroat - 10
   - American Redstart - 7
   - Cape May Warbler - 4
   - Magnolia Warbler - 2
   - Bay-breasted Warbler - 1
   - Blackburnian Warbler - 2
   - Yellow Warbler - 1
   - Blackpoll Warbler - 3
   - Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
   - Canada Warbler - 1
   - Wilson's Warbler - 1
   - Savannah Sparrow - 1
   - Song Sparrow - 13
   - Swamp Sparrow - 2
   - Scarlet Tanager - 4
   - Northern Cardinal - 16
   - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
   - Indigo Bunting - 10
   - Bobolink - 6
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 675
   - Common Grackle - 121
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
   - Baltimore Oriole - 9
   - House Finch - 6
   - American Goldfinch - 65
   - House Sparrow - 14
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.   
   - Map Turtle - 7   

   - Midland Painted Turtle - 8
   - Northern Water Snake - 1 (young)
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.   
   - Bullfrog     

   - Green Frog
   - Northern Leopard Frog
V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES.   
   - Bowfin - 8   

   - Gizzard Shad - thousands (being fed on by Bowfin)
   - Brown Bullhead - about 60 (in the ditch along gravel Krause Rd. - between 2" and 12")
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 12 SPECIES.   
   - Cabbage Butterfly - 20+   

   - Clouded Sulphur - 40+
   - Dainty Sulphur - 2
   - Bronze Copper - 1
   - Summer Azure - 4
   - Pearl Crescent - 9
   - Red Admiral - 2
   - Buckeye - 1
   - Red-spotted Purple - 2
   - Viceroy - 7
   - Monarch - 24
   - Least Skipper - 16
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.


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