OCT. 05, 2008 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 38-65-55 COND.: Crisp early, calm, no wind; warming throughout. Sunny, dry, afternoon wind 5-10mph out of the north. OBS.: Bernie & Alice Frick (from York, Pa.), Marc Nolls, Ed Pierce, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 3 2. Mink - 1 3. Woodchuck - 5 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 5. Eastern Cottontail - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 6 (5 doe, 1 yearling) II. BIRDS: 98 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 472 2. Mute Swan - 4 3. Trumpeter Swan - 24 4. Wood Duck - 18 5. Gadwall - 109 6. American Wigeon - 134 7. American Black Duck - 5 8. Mallard - 204 9. Blue-winged Teal - 40 10. Northern Shoveler - 4 11. Northern Pintail - 7 12. Green-winged Teal - 807 13. Hooded Merganser - 1 14. Ruddy Duck - 2 15. Pied-billed Grebe - 36 16. Double-crested Cormorant - 32 17. Great Blue Heron - 68 18. Great Egret - 113 19. Snowy Egret - 3 20. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 22 21. Bald Eagle - 7 (3 adult,4 immature) 22. Northern Harrier - 6 23. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 24. Cooper's Hawk - 2 25. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 26. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature) 27. Common Moorhen - 1 28. American Coot - 65 29. Black-bellied Plover - 32 30. Semipalmated Plover - 3 31. Killdeer - 31 32. Greater Yellowlegs - 6 33. Lesser Yellowlegs - 23 34. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2 35. Least Sandpiper - 11 36. Pectoral Sandpiper - 3 37. Dunlin - 13 38. Stilt Sandpiper - 1 39. Long-billed Dowitcher - 40 40. Wilson's Snipe - 4 41. Red-necked Phalarope - 1 42. Bonaparte's Gull - 2 43. Ring-billed Gull - 243 44. Herring Gull - 1 45. Caspian Tern - 1 46. Common Tern - 301 47. Mourning Dove - 10 48. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 49. Chimney Swift - 1 50. Belted Kingfisher - 3 51. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 52. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 53. Downy Woodpecker - 13 54. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 55. Northern Flicker - 21 56. Eastern Phoebe - 3 57. Red-eyed Vireo - 2 58. Blue Jay - 31 59. Horned Lark - 29 60. Tree Swallow - 98 61. Black-capped Chickadee - 8 62. Tufted Titmouse - 3 63. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 65. Carolina Wren - 3 66. House Wren - 1 67. Winter Wren - 3 68. Marsh Wren - 3 69. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9 70. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 9 71. Eastern Bluebird - 1 72. American Robin - 50 73. Gray Catbird - 5 74. European Starling - 185 75. Orange-crowned Warbler - 2 76. Magnolia Warbler - 3 77. Cape May Warbler - 1 78. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 79. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 36 80. Blackpoll Warbler - 3 81. American Redstart - 1 82. Common Yellowthroat - 2 83. Field Sparrow - 22 84. Savannah Sparrow - 4 85. Song Sparrow - 28 86. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 87. Swamp Sparrow - 21 88. White-throated Sparrow - 83 89. White-crowned Sparrow - 28 90. Dark-eyed Junco - 5 91. Northern Cardinal - 18 92. Indigo Bunting - 1 93. Red-winged Blackbird - 2,231 94. Common Grackle - 104 95. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 96. House Finch - 1 97. American Goldfinch - 8 98. House Sparrow - 5 III,. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 1 2. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Northern Leopard Frog 2. Green Frog 3. Bullfrog V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp VI. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage White 2. Clouded Sulphur 3. Buckeye 4. American Copper 5. Viceroy 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]