JUNE 05, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am~12:20pm; 1:45pm~6:20pm.TEMP.: 56~77~73 COND.: Overcast until 9:00am, turning mostly cloudy until 9:45am, then changing to partly sunny; winds W/SW at5-10mph; stormfront coming from the SW after lunch, winds gusting to 25mph; brief downpour from 2:50pm~2:55pm; overcast & cooler.OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Debbie Hurlvert-Minard, Donna Kuhn (morning only), Jon Minard, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only),Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus & Janet Wertz.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.

   - Raccoon - 5

   - Mink - 1
   - Woodchuck - 2
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
   - Muskrat - 3
   - Eastern Cottontail - 1
   - White-tailed Deer - 5

II. BIRDS: 77 SPECIES.

   - Canada Goose - 199

   - Trumpeter Swan - 57 (14 young)
   - Wood Duck - 87
   - American Black Duck - 3
   - Mallard - 156
   - Hooded Merganser - 2
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 17
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 62
   - Great Blue Heron - 121
   - Great Egret - 249
   - Snowy Egret - 11
   - Green Heron - 1
   - Black-crowned Night-Heron - 11
   - Turkey Vulture - 11
   - Osprey - 1
   - Bald Eagle - 16 (5 adult,11 immature)
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 5
   - American Coot - 2
   - Sandhill Crane - 4
   - KIlldeer - 27
   - Spotted Sandpiper - 3
   - Dunlin - 1
   - American Woodcock - 1
   - Ring-billed Gull - 56
   - Herring Gull - 9
   - Mourning Dove - 10
   - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4
   - Great Horned Owl - 1
   - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7
   - Downy Woodpecker - 5
   - Northern Flicker - 10
   - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4
   - Acadian Flycatcher - 1
   - Willow Flycatcher - 21
   - Eastern Phoebe - 5
   - Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
   - Eastern Kingbird - 24
   - Warbling Vireo - 20
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 5
   - Blue Jay - 14
   - Horned Lark - 6
   - Purple Martin - 39
   - Tree Swallow - 196
   - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
   - Bank Swallow - 1
   - Cliff Swallow - 45
   - Barn Swallow - 44
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 4
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
   - House Wren - 20
   - Marsh Wren - 10
   - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
   - American Robin - 50
   - Gray Catbird - 20
   - Brown Thrasher - 6
   - European Starling - 108
   - Cedar Waxwing - 9
   - Prothonotary Warbler - 4
   - Common Yellowthroat - 23
   - American Redstart - 4
   - Yellow Warbler - 109
   - Chipping Sparrow - 5
   - Field Sparrow - 6
   - Henslow's Sparrow - 1
   - Song Sparrow - 36
   - Swamp Sparrow - 5
   - Northern Cardinal - 14
   - Indigo Bunting - 11
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 535
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 2
   - Common Grackle - 87
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 13
   - Orchard Oriole - 3
   - Baltimore Oriole - 17
   - American Goldfinch - 9
   - House Sparrow - 20

III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES.

   - Common Snapping Turtle - 1

   - Map Turtle - 5
   - Midland Painted Turtle - 5
   - Northern Water Snake - 5
   - Eastern Garter Snake - 1

IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.

   - Bullfrog - many

   - Green Frog - 4

V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.

   - Common Carp - why, yes!


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES.

   - Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1

   - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2
   - Cabbage Butterfly - 1
   - Clouded Sulphur - 1
   - Pearl Crescent - 2
   - Red-spotted Purple - 2

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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