OCTOBER 04, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual east & west side routes in the morning; Afternoon coverage limited due to youth waterfowl huntingon the refuge; quick run through the back side & then census the perimeters of the refuge on the back side.TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:45pm-5:15pm TEMP.: 44-70-64 COND.: Overcast until 9:15am; then turning partly to mostlysunny until 11:15am; mostly cloudy from 11:15am on; winds E/NE at 5-10mph.OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda,Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
   - Woodchuck - 2

   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6
   - White-tailed Deer - 4 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 106 SPECIES.
   - Canada Goose - 698

   - Trumpeter Swan - 31 (8 immature)
   - Wood Duck - 38
   - American Wigeon - 352
   - American Black Duck - 8
   - Mallard - 278
   - Blue-winged Teal - 4
   - Northern Shoveler - 7
   - Green-winged Teal - 5
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 26
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 64
   - Great Blue Heron - 128
   - Great Egret - 100
   - Snowy Egret - 2
   - Turkey Vulture - 1
   - Bald Eagle - 8 (2 adult,6 immature)
   - Northern Harrier - 3
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 5
   - Sora - 1
   - Common Gallinule - 3
   - American Coot - 1
   - Sandhill Crane - 4
   - Semipalmated Plover - 4
   - Killdeer - 31
   - Greater Yellowlegs - 15
   - Lesser Yellowlegs - 5
   - Stilt Sandpiper - 2
   - Dunlin - 5
   - Baird's Sandpiper - 1
   - Least Sandpiper - 3
   - Pectoral Sandpiper - 5
   - Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1
   - Western Sandpiper - 2
   - Long-billed Dowitcher - 5
   - Wilson's Snipe - 5
   - Bonaparte's Gull - 79
   - Ring-billed Gull - 615
   - Herring Gull - 10
   - Caspian Tern - 2
   - Common Tern - 22
   - Forster's Tern - 1
   - Mourning Dove - 54
   - Eastern Screech-Owl - 2
   - Great Horned Owl - 1
   - Chimney Swift - 1
   - Belted Kingfisher - 1
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8
   - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
   - Downy Woodpecker - 18
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 2
   - Northern Flicker - 25
   - American Kestrel - 1
   - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
   - Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1
   - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3
   - Empidonax Flycatcher - 2
   - Eastern Phoebe - 6
   - White-eyed Vireo - 1
   - Blue-headed Vireo - 5
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 2
   - Blue Jay - 47
   - Horned Lark - 26
   - Tree Swallow - 708
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 6
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 11
   - Brown Creeper - 1
   - House Wren - 6
   - Winter Wren - 2
   - Marsh Wren - 3
   - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 39
   - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 111
   - Gray-cheeked Thrush - 2
   - Swainson's Thrush - 14
   - Hermit Thrush - 1
   - American Robin - 80
   - Gray Catbird - 8
   - Brown Thrasher - 2
   - European Starling - 308
   - Cedar Waxwing - 18
   - Tennessee Warbler - 2
   - Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
   - Nashville Warbler - 1
   - Common Yellowthroat - 2
   - American Redstart - 1
   - Palm Warbler - 3
   - Pine Warbler - 1
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 82
   - Eastern Towhee - 1
   - Savannah Sparrow - 1
   - Song Sparrow - 18
   - Lincoln's Sparrow - 7
   - Swamp Sparrow - 19
   - White-throated Sparrow - 131
   - White-crowned Sparrow - 27
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 17
   - Unidentified Sparrow - 8 (Adam Grimm Prairie & Stange Prairie - combined)
   - Northern Cardinal - 18
   - Indigo Bunting - 1
   - Bobolink - 9 (5 in Adam Grimm Prairie & 4 in Stange Prairie)
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 1,258
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
   - Rusty Blackbird - 5
   - Common Grackle - 2,253
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 121
   - American Goldfinch - 40
   - House Sparrow - 22
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
   - Midland Painted Turtle - 4

IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
   - Bullfrog - 1

   - Northern Leopard Frog - 6
V. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES.
   - Cabbage Butterfly - 7

   - Clouded Sulphur - 11
   - Bronze Copper - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
   - Red Admiral - 2
   - Buckeye - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie)
   - Viceroy - 1
   - Monarch - 4
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.


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