SEPTEMBER 03, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: East and West sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon.
TIME: 8:00am - 12:30pm; 1:40pm - 6:20pm  TEMP.: 62 ~ 76  COND.: Cloudy and
cool until 9:30am; turning partly sunny until 10:05am; mostly sunny, few
clouds from 10:05am on; winds W at 5-10mph.  OBS. EAST: Jim Reyda, Al &
Betty Schlecht.  OBS. WEST: Doug Brockway, Katie Clink, Jimmy Joyce,
Jennifer Keuhn, Jim Koppen, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Michael O'Brien,
Ed Pierce, Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus.  OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob
Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Jim Koppen, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W.
Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.

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


II. BIRDS: 106 SPECIES, 6,234 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Canada Goose - 298
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 63 (neckband: "yellow 3A8")
   3. Wood Duck - 101
   4. American Black Duck - 2
   5. Mallard - 530
   6. Blue-winged Teal - 22
   7. Northern Shoveler - 6
   8. Green-winged Teal - 28
   9. Northern Bobwhite - 1 (male at BSBO feeder area - 3rd record on
   census)
   10. Pied-billed Grebe - 15
   11. Rock Pigeon - 1
   12. Mourning Dove - 131
   13. Chimney Swift - 1
   14. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 7
   15. Common Gallinule - 5
   16. Sandhill Crane - 19
   17. Semipalmated Plover - 7
   18. Killdeer - 98
   19. Red Knot - 1 (in northeast corner of Pool 2c)
   20. Least Sandpiper - 2
   21. Pectoral Sandpiper - 14
   22. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 18
   23. Wilson's Snipe - 1
   24. Spotted Sandpiper - 4
   25. Solitary Sandpiper - 1
   26. Greater Yellowlegs - 1
   27. Lesser Yellowlegs - 13
   28. Bonaparte's Gull - 15
   29. Ring-billed Gull - 210
   30. Herring Gull - 9
   31. Caspian Tern - 23
   32. Common Tern - 2
   33. Double-crested Cormorant - 64
   34. American White Pelican - 39
   35. Great Blue Heron - 116
   36. Great Egret - 281
   37. Snowy Egret - 6
   38. Green Heron - 8
   39. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2
   40. Turkey Vulture - 7
   41. Bald Eagle - 5 (2 adult,3 immature)
   42. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
   43. Red-tailed Hawk - 6
   44. Belted Kingfisher - 18
   45. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9
   46. Downy Woodpecker - 21
   47. Northern Flicker - 11
   48. American Kestrel - 2
   49. Merlin - 1
   50. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13
   51. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1
   52. Willow Flycatcher - 1
   53. Least Flycatcher - 3  (Unidentified *Empidonax* flycatcher - 1)
   54. Eastern Phoebe - 23
   55. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
   56. Eastern Kingbird - 17
   57. Warbling Vireo - 15
   58. Red-eyed Vireo - 11
   59. Blue Jay - 37
   60. Horned Lark - 1
   61. Tree Swallow - 1,388
   62. Barn Swallow - 75
   63. White-breasted Nuthatch - 9
   64. House Wren - 4
   65. Marsh Wren - 5
   66. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8
   67. Veery - 1
   68. Swainson's Thrush - 7
   69. American Robin - 58
   70. Gray Catbird - 34
   71. Brown Thrasher - 2
   72. European Starling - 808
   73. Cedar Waxwing - 36
   74. House Sparrow - 107
   75. House Finch - 14
   76. American Goldfinch - 67
   77. Black-and-white Warbler - 2
   78. Tennessee Warbler - 1
   79. Nashville Warbler - 1
   80. Common Yellowthroat - 7
   81. American Redstart - 15
   82. Cape May Warbler - 1
   83. Northern Parula - 1
   84. Magnolia Warbler - 7
   85. Bay-breasted Warbler - 21
   86. Blackburnian Warbler - 2
   87. Yellow Warbler - 2
   88. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2
   89. Blackpoll Warbler - 1
   90. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2
   91. Black-throated Green Warbler - 4
   92. Canada Warbler - 1
   93. Wilson's Warbler - 1
   94. Chipping Sparrow - 1
   95. Field Sparrow - 1
   96. Savannah Sparrow - 2
   97. Grasshopper Sparrow - 1
   98. Song Sparrow - 19
   99. Northern Cardinal - 22
   100. Indigo Bunting - 10
   101. Dickcissel - 7
   102. Bobolink - 8
   103. Red-winged Blackbird - 996
   104. Common Grackle - 52
   105. Brown-headed Cowbird - 47
   106. Baltimore Oriole - 5


III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.

   1. Red-eared Turtle - 4
   2. Midland Painted Turtle - 24
   3. Northern Water Snake - 9
   4. Eastern Garter Snake - 1


IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.

   1. Bullfrog - 2
   2. Green Frog - 1
   3. Northern Leopard Frog - 23


V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - 9
   2. Creek Chub - 8


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 15 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1
   2. Cabbage Butterfly - 57
   3. Clouded Sulphur - 28
   4. Orange Sulphur - 6
   5. American Copper - 1
   6. Bronze Copper - 2
   7. Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1
   8. Pearl Crescent - 7
   9. Red Admiral - 10
   10. American Painted Lady - 7
   11. Common Buckeye - 8
   12. Red-spotted Purple - 1
   13. Viceroy - 9
   14. Monarch - 44
   15. Least Skipper - 6


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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