JUNE 04, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: Usual morning and afternoon routes (east and west sides in the
morning, back side in the afternoon), except where closed for eagle nesting.
TIME: 8:00am - 12:20pm; 1:50pm - 6:45am TEMP.: 56 ~ 79 ~ 76 COND.: Cloudy
and gray; light sprinkles starting at 8:25am, changing to steady rain until
8:50am;
rain stopped briefly, front continuing from the west with more rain from
9:00am - 9:30am; rain ending, mostly cloudy turning to clouds/sun mix and
warm and breezy.
OBS. EAST: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Mike
Edgington, Jennifer Keuhn, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Sharon Newell,
Douglas
W. Vogus, Janet Wertz. OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Ed
Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 13
   2. Woodchuck - 2
   3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 9
   4. Common Muskrat - 4
   5. Common Raccoon - 1
   6. White-tailed Deer - 4 (1 buck,3 doe)


II. BIRDS: 86 SPECIES, 4,076 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Canada Goose - 583
   2. Mute Swan - 1
   3. Trumpeter Swan - 165 (23 cygnets; adults with neckbands: "1AO -
   yellow" & "1A2 - yellow")
   4. Wood Duck - 166
   5. Gadwall - 2
   6. Mallard - 139
   7. Blue-winged Teal - 4
   8. Hooded Merganser - 2 (females)
   9. Ruddy Duck - 3
   10. Pied-billed Grebe - 17
   11. Mourning Dove - 20
   12. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 5
   13. Chimney Swift - 4
   14. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
   15. Virginia Rail - 1
   16. Common Gallinule - 3
   17. Sandhill Crane - 13 (2 adults with 2 colts in Stange Prairie)
   18. Killdeer - 26
   19. Wilson's Snipe - 1
   20. Spotted Sandpiper - 10
   21. Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 (in MS2 on the back side)
   22. Ring-billed Gull - 39
   23. Herring Gull - 3
   24. Double-crested Cormorant - 57
   25. American Bittern - 1 (calling from the large phragmite stand in MS
   8b)
   26. Great Blue Heron - 126
   27. Great Egret - 173
   28. Snowy Egret - 8
   29. Green Heron - 11
   30. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 19
   31. Turkey Vulture - 9
   32. Bald Eagle - 10 (3 adult,4 immature,3 juveniles in nests)
   33. Red-tailed Hawk - 3
   34. Great Horned Owl - 3 (1 immature)
   35. Belted Kingfisher - 2
   36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
   37. Downy Woodpecker - 10
   38. Northern Flicker - 7
   39. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5
   40. Willow Flycatcher - 27
   41. Eastern Phoebe - 13
   42. Great Crested Flycatcher - 7
   43. Eastern Kingbird - 20
   44. Warbling Vireo - 43
   45. Red-eyed Vireo - 2
   46. Blue Jay - 18
   47. Horned Lark - 8
   48. Purple Martin - 57
   49. Tree Swallow - 526
   50. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
   51. Bank Swallow - 1
   52. Cliff Swallow - 88 (44 nests; 1 leucistic bird photographed by D.W.
   Vogus)
   53. Barn Swallow - 63
   54. Black-capped Chickadee - 4
   55. Tufted Titmouse - 2
   56. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
   57. House Wren - 34
   58. Marsh Wren - 26
   59. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
   60. Eastern Bluebird - 1
   61. Wood Thrush - 1
   62. American Robin - 40
   63. Gray Catbird - 44
   64. Brown Thrasher - 3
   65. European Starling - 140
   66. Cedar Waxwing - 9
   67. House Sparrow - 16
   68. House Finch - 4
   69. American Goldfinch - 20
   70. Prothonotary Warbler - 6
   71. Common Yellowthroat - 57
   72. Yellow Warbler - 236
   73. Wilson's Warbler - 1
   74. Chipping Sparrow - 5
   75. Field Sparrow - 9
   76. Savannah Sparrow - 2
   77. Song Sparrow - 137
   78. Swamp Sparrow - 8
   79. Northern Cardinal - 5
   80. Indigo Bunting - 7
   81. Dickcissel - 2 (males in Adam Grimm Prairie)
   82. Red-winged Blackbird - 625
   83. Common Grackle - 74
   84. Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
   85. Orchard Oriole - 1
   86. Baltimore Oriole - 19


III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES.

   1. Common Snapping Turtle - 11
   2. Map Turtle - 2
   3. Midland Painted Turtle - 8
   4. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1
   5. Northern Water Snake - 2


IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.

   1. Bullfrog - many
   2. Green Frog - many
   3. Northern Leopard Frog - many


V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - yes!


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 3
   2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
   3. Cabbage Butterfly - 26
   4. Viceroy - 2
   5. Monarch - 1
   6. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2
   7. Least Skipper - 1


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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