JULY 02, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: Same usual morning and afternoon routes (east and west sides in the
morning and backside in the afternoon), except where closed for eagle
nesting.
TIME: 8:00am - 12:35pm; 2:05pm - 5:30pm  TEMP.: 71 ~ 84 ~ 82  COND.: Sunny
and warm; winds west at 5-10mph.
OBS. EAST: Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht.  OBS. WEST: Katie Clink, Donna
Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Michael O'Brien, Ed Pierce, Tony Szilagye, Douglas
W. Vogus.
OBS. AFTERNOON: Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 17
   2. Woodchuck - 2
   3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
   4. Common Muskrat - 2
   5. Common Raccoon - 1
   6. White-tailed Deer - 2


II. BIRDS: 78 SPECIES, 4,020 INDIVIDUALS.

   1. Canada Goose - 304
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 105 (6 young; Adults with neckbands: "74M - green"
   and "1A2 - yellow" - these two parent birds had 3 of the young)
   3. Wood Duck - 39
   4. Mallard - 13
   5. Hooded Merganser - 1 (female)
   6. Pied-billed Grebe - 8 (3 young)
   7. Mourning Dove - 37
   8. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
   9. Chimney Swift - 6
   10. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
   11. Common Gallinule - 1
   12. Sandhill Crane - 12 (2 young)  (First July Record on Census)
   13. Killdeer - 34
   14. Spotted Sandpiper - 4
   15. Ring-billed Gull - 146
   16. Herring Gull - 1
   17. Caspian Tern - 5
   18. Common Tern - 27
   19. Double-crested Cormorant - 14
   20. Great Blue Heron - 134
   21. Great Egret - 243
   22. Snowy Egret - 21
   23. Green Heron - 3
   24. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 14
   25. Turkey Vulture - 4
   26. Bald Eagle - 5 (3 adult,2 immature)
   27. Red-tailed Hawk - 8
   28. Great Horned Owl - 1
   29. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (adult)
   30. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8
   31. Downy Woodpecker - 23
   32. Hairy Woodpecker - 3
   33. Northern Flicker - 14
   34. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6
   35. Willow Flycatcher - 6
   36. Eastern Phoebe - 8
   37. Great Crested Flycatcher - 8
   38. Eastern Kingbird - 45 (1 nest with 2 young)
   39. Warbling Vireo - 33
   40. Red-eyed Vireo - 6
   41. Blue Jay - 29
   42. Horned Lark - 14
   43. Purple Martin - 330 (includes results from Purple Martin
   bird-banding)
   44. Tree Swallow - 506
   45. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3
   46. Cliff Swallow - 18
   47. Barn Swallow - 58
   48. Black-capped Chickadee - 4
   49. Tufted Titmouse - 1
   50. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
   51. House Wren - 49
   52. Marsh Wren - 28
   53. Carolina Wren - 1
   54. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5
   55. American Robin - 48
   56. Gray Catbird - 54
   57. Brown Thrasher - 7
   58. European Starling - 249
   59. Cedar Waxwing - 12
   60. House Sparrow - 11
   61. House Finch - 5
   62. American Goldfinch - 45
   63. Prothonotary Warbler - 4
   64. Common Yellowthroat - 46
   65. Yellow Warbler - 162
   66. Chipping Sparrow - 10
   67. Field Sparrow - 9
   68. Song Sparrow - 95
   69. Swamp Sparrow - 14
   70. Northern Cardinal - 31
   71. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
   72. Indigo Bunting - 20
   73. Dickcissel - 27
   74. Red-winged Blackbird - 681
   75. Common Grackle - 46
   76. Brown-headed Cowbird - 10
   77. Orchard Oriole - 3
   78. Baltimore Oriole - 30


III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES.

   1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1
   2. Red-eared Turtle - 1
   3. Midland Painted Turtle - 15
   4. Blanding's Turtle - 1
   5. Northern Water Snake - 7


IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.

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


V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - many
   2. Creek Chub - 6
   3. Largemouth Bass - many
   4. Bluegill - 4


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 11 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1
   2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
   3. Cabbage Butterfly - 73
   4. Clouded Sulphur - 17
   5. Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1
   6. Summer Azure - 2
   7. Red Admiral - 10
   8. American Painted Lady - 2
   9. Painted Lady - 1
   10. Viceroy - 2
   11. Monarch - 3


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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