JUNE 01, 2008 - Official Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-6:15pm TEMP.: 64-73 (avg:70) COND.: Sunny, dry, clear; wind w/nw @ 10-12mph OBS.: East Side: Ed Pierce, Douglas W. Vogus. West Side: Marc Nolls, Jim Reyda, Dan Sanders. Back Side: Sherrie Duris, Marc Nolls, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Dan Sanders, Douglas W. Vogus. BIRDS: 84 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 316 2. Trumpeter Swan - 16 (released birds with young - yellow band "3AO" mated pair with 2 young; unmarked mated pair with 5 young) 3. Wood Duck - 71 (also 1 nest with 17 eggs) 4. Mallard - 38 5. Blue-winged Teal - 10 6. Lesser Scaup - 1 (f) - west side 7. Hooded Merganser - 1 (f) 8. Pied-billed Grebe - 40 (includes young) 9. Double-crested Cormorant - 62 10. Least Bittern - 2 (calling - back side) 11. Great Blue Heron - 81 12. Great Egret - 125 13. Green Heron - 8 14. Black-crowned Night Heron - 4 (all adults) 15. Bald Eagle - 6 (2 adult, 4 immature - 5 nests on this end of the refuge - results do not include young observed by eagle counters: 1. Ottawa/Lucas nest - 1 young; 2. Butternut nest - 1 young; 3. "Drive-thru Woods nest - 2 young; 4. N. Veler Rd. nest - 2 young; 5. Pool 9 nest - taken over by Great Horned Owls, no eagle success). 16. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 (1 young calling from S. Butternut Woods nest) 17. Common Moorhen - 13 18. American Coot - 3 19. Killdeer - 9 20. Greater Yellowlegs - 1 21. Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 22. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 23. Ruddy Turnstone - 6 24. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 45 25. Dunlin - 91 26. Wilson's Snipe - 1 27. American Woodcock - 1 28. Ring-billed Gull - 5 29. Herring Gull - 11 30. Common Tern - 81 31. Rock Pigeon - 1 32. Mourning Dove - 12 33. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 5 Unknown Cuckoo - 1 (too fleeting a glimpse) 34. Chimney Swift - 5 35. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 37. Downy Woodpecker - 6 38. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 39. Northern Flicker - 5 40. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 41. Alder Flycatcher - 1 42. Willow Flycatcher - 15 Unknown Empidonax Flycatcher - 8 43. Great Crested Flycatcher - 4 44. Eastern Kingbird - 30 45. Warbling Vireo - 25 46. Red-eyed Vireo - 2 47. Blue Jay - 8 48. Purple Martin - 6 49. Tree Swallow - 66 50. Bank Swallow - 1 51. Cliff Swallow - 40 (47-50 active nests) 52. Barn Swallow - 24 53. Black-capped Chickadee - 1 54. Carolina Wren - 2 55. House Wren - 17 56. Marsh Wren - 18 57. Wood Thrush - 3 58. American Robin - 30 59. Gray Catbird - 35 60. Brown Thrasher - 4 61. European Starling - 124 62. Cedar Waxwing - 13 63. Yellow Warbler - 68 64. Blackpoll Warbler - 2 (1m,1f) 65. American Redstart - 1 (m) 66. Prothonotary Warbler - 2 (m) 67. Ovenbird - 1 (calling) 68. Common Yellowthroat - 32 69. Wilson's Warbler - 1 (m) 70. Chipping Sparrow - 1 71. Field Sparrow - 14 72. Savannah Sparrow - 3 73. Song Sparrow -43 74. Swamp Sparrow - 3 75. Northern Cardinal - 27 76. Indigo Bunting - 11 77. Red-winged Blackbird - 218 (1 nest with 4 eggs) 78. Eastern Meadowlark - 4 79. Common Grackle - 63 80. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16 81. Orchard Oriole - 1 82. Baltimore Oriole - 11 83. American Goldfinch - 21 84. House Sparrow - 5 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]