OCTOBER 02, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Limited coverage in the morning on the east side & west side due to Youth Waterfowl Hunting. Had to leave backside of refuge at 4:30pm due to Youth Waterfowl Hunting as well. Most of normal areas covered, though not as thorough due to time restraints.TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-4:35pm TEMP.: 55~74~71 COND.: Cloudy/overcast early with brief 20 minute shower; turning partly sunny and warmer; wind from west at 5-10mph. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Nicole King (morning only), Jim Koppin (morning only), 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.

   - Common Raccoon - 1

   - Woodchuck - 1
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
   - Eastern Cottontail - 2
   - White-tailed Deer - 2 (1 doe,1 yearling)

II. BIRDS: 105 SPECIES (order follows Ottawa NWR Bird Checklist).

   - Canada Goose - 409

   - Trumpeter Swan - 50 (green band "74M" & yellow band "1A2")
   - Wood Duck - 73
   - Gadwall - 216
   - American Wigeon - 12
   - American Black Duck - 14
   - Mallard - 191
   - Blue-winged Teal - 2
   - Northern Shoveler - 14
   - Northern Pintail - 15
   - Green-winged Teal - 40
   - Hooded Merganser - 1
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 23
   - American White Pelican - 24
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 31
   - Great Blue Heron - 78
   - Great Egret - 166
   - Snowy Egret - 12
   - Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3
   - Turkey Vulture - 4
   - Bald Eagle - 6 (4 adult,2 immature)
   - Northern Harrier - 4
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 12
   - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature female over Stange Prairie)
   - Sora - 1
   - American Coot - 51
   - Sandhill Crane - 8
   - Killdeer - 23
   - Greater Yellowlegs - 5
   - Lesser Yellowlegs - 6
   - Dunlin - 8
   - Ring-billed Gull - 151
   - Herring Gull - 7
   - Caspian Tern - 1
   - Mourning Dove - 122
   - Eastern Screech-Owl - 2
   - Chimney Swift - 2
   - Red-headed Woodpecker - 5
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12
   - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
   - Downy Woodpecker - 19
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 1
   - Northern Flicker - 39
   - Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 (Dave Myles)
   - Willow Flycatcher - 1 (Jim Reyda)
   - Eastern Phoebe - 11
   - Philadelphia Vireo - 3
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 4
   - Blue Jay - 61
   - Horned Lark - 2
   - Tree Swallow - 1,086
   - Barn Swallow - 1
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 11
   - Tufted Titmouse - 1
   - Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 9
   - Brown Creeper - 2
   - House Wren - 3
   - Winter Wren - 2
   - Marsh Wren - 1
   - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5
   - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 23
   - Swainson's Thrush - 16
   - American Robin - 54
   - Gray Catbird - 32
   - Brown Thrasher - 3
   - European Starling - 2,828
   - Cedar Waxwing - 1
   - Tennessee Warbler - 2
   - Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
   - Nashville Warbler - 1
   - Northern Parula - 1
   - Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
   - Magnolia Warbler - 12
   - Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 27
   - Black-throated Green Warbler - 3
   - Pine Warbler - 2
   - Palm Warbler - 1
   - Blackpoll Warbler - 20
   - Black-and-white Warbler - 2
   - American Redstart - 4
   - Ovenbird - 1
   - Northern Waterthrush - 2
   - Common Yellowthroat - 6
   - Wilson's Warbler - 1
   - Chipping Sparrow - 4
   - Field Sparrow - 6
   - Savannah Sparrow - 8
   - Song Sparrow - 21
   - Lincoln's Sparrow - 8
   - Swamp Sparrow - 2
   - White-throated Sparrow - 5
   - Harris's Sparrow - 1 (at Black Swamp Bird Observatory's feeder)
   - White-crowned Sparrow - 9
   - Northern Cardinal - 13
   - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2
   - Indigo Bunting - 6
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 1,728
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 7
   - Common Grackle - 36
   - House Finch - 4
   - American Goldfinch - 125
   - House Sparrow - 78

III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.

   - Common Snapping Turtle - 1

   - Midland Painted Turtle - 6
   - Eastern Garter Snake - 1 (Stange Prairie)

IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.

   - Green Frog - 1

   - Northern Leopard Frog - 2

V. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES.

   - Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1

   - Cabbage Butterfly - 7
   - Clouded Sulphur - 85+ (Stange Prairie was filled with them)
   - Bronze Copper - 1
   - Pearl Crescent - 1
   - Buckeye - 6
   - Monarch - 3

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.



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