AUGUST 02, 2009 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. Usual morning and afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-5:15pm TEMP.: 68-81 COND.: Rain ending at 8am, cloudy giving way to sunny and warm; wind west @5-15mph OBS.: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 3 2. Coyote - 1 3. Mink - 1 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 5. Woodchuck - 1 6. Eastern Cottontail - 2 7. White-tailed Deer - 6 (2 buck, 2 doe, 2 yearling) II. BIRDS: 87 SPECIES (1 RELEASE). 1. Canada Goose - 208 R. Trumpeter Swan - 14 (5 young) 2. Wood Duck - 94 3. Mallard - 85 4. Blue-winged Teal - 8 5. Pied-billed Grebe - 30 6. Double-crested Cormorant - 17 7. American Bittern - 1 8. Least Bittern - 2 9. Great Blue Heron - 108 10. Great Egret - 177 11. Snowy Egret - 19 12. Green Heron - 1 13. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 8 14. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature) 15. Red-tailed Hawk - 7 16. American Kestrel - 2 17. Common Moorhen - 4 18. Sandhill Crane - 2 19. Semipalmated Plover - 8 20. Killdeer - 46 21. Greater Yellowlegs - 8 22. Lesser Yellowlegs - 54 23. Solitary Sandpiper - 2 24. Spotted Sandpiper - 3 25. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 59 26. Least Sandpiper - 29 27. Pectoral Sandpiper - 6 28. Stilt Sandpiper - 12 29. Short-billed Dowitcher - 45 30. Bonaparte's Gull - 22 31. Ring-billed Gull - 100 32. Herring Gull - 2 33. Caspian Tern - 13 34. Common Tern - 20 35. Forster's Tern - 2 **. Tern Species (Common/Forster's) - 163 36. Mourning Dove - 68 37. Black-billed Cuckoo - 3 38. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 39. Chimney Swift - 1 40. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5 41. Belted Kingfisher - 4 42. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 43. Downy Woodpecker - 12 44. Northern Flicker - 10 45. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 46. Willow Flycatcher - 17 47. Eastern Phoebe - 6 48. Great Crested Flycatcher - 4 49. Eastern Kingbird - 36 50. Warbling Vireo - 5 51. Red-eyed Vireo - 6 52. Blue Jay - 7 53. Purple Martin - 36 54. Tree Swallow - 206 55. Bank Swallow - 7 56. Cliff Swallow - 1 57. Barn Swallow - 48 58. Black-capped Chickadee - 4 59. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 60. House Wren - 12 61. Sedge Wren - 1 62. Marsh Wren - 14 63. American Robin - 41 64. Gray Catbird - 35 65. Northern Mockingbird - 1 66. Brown Thrasher - 1 67. European Starling - 208 68. Cedar Waxwing - 29 69. Yellow Warbler - 26 70. Prothonotary Warbler - 2 71. Common Yellowthroat - 21 72. Chipping Sparrow - 1 73. Field Sparrow - 26 74. Savannah Sparrow - 1 75. Henslow's Sparrow - 5 76. Song Sparrow - 43 77. Swamp Sparrow - 12 78. Northern Cardinal - 43 79. Indigo Bunting - 46 80. Bobolink - 6 81. Red-winged Blackbird - 325 82. Common Grackle - 60 83. Orchard Oriole - 1 84. Baltimore Oriole - 6 85. House Finch - 1 86. American Goldfinch - 49 87. House Sparrow - 24 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Red-eared Turtle - 4 2. Northern Water Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 1 2. Green Frog - many V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - many VI. BUTTERFLIES: 9 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail 2. Cabbage White 3. Clouded Sulphur 4. Orange Sulphur 5. Spring Azure 6. Pearl Crescent 7. Red-Admiral 8. Viceroy 9. Monarch A big "Thank You!" to the Ottawa N.W.R. Association for the Volunteer Cook-out. 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]