OCT. 04, 2009 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-5:15pm TEMP.: 50-56-55 COND.: Cloudy and cool early, clouds/sun mix late afternoon; wind W/SW at 5-15mph. OBS.: Aaron Bartley, Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus, Michelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Woodchuck - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 3. White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe) II. BIRDS: 94 SPECIES, 1 RELEASE. 1. Canada Goose - 319 2. Mute Swan - 2 R. Trumpeter Swan - 37 (17 adults,20 juv.) 3. Wood Duck - 173 4. Gadwall - 9 5. American Wigeon - 14 6. American Black Duck - 15 7. Mallard - 315 8. Blue-winged Teal - 263 9. Northern Shoveler - 6 10. Northern Pintail - 4 11. Green-winged Teal - 508 12. Lesser Scaup - 1 13. Pied-billed Grebe - 15 14. Double-crested Cormorant - 73 15. Great Blue Heron - 105 16. Great Egret - 166 17. Snowy Egret - 8 18. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 5 19. Bald Eagle - 7 (2 adult,5 juv.) 20. Cooper's Hawk - 2 21. Red-tailed Hawk - 7 22. American Kestrel - 2 23. American Coot - 129 24. Semipalmated Plover - 7 25. Killdeer - 49 26. Greater Yellowlegs - 4 27. Lesser Yellowlegs - 28 28. Least Sandpiper - 8 29. Pectoral Sandpiper - 9 30. Dunlin - 5 31. Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 32. Long-billed Dowitcher - 3 33. Wilson's Snipe - 3 34. Bonaparte's Gull - 123 35. Ring-billed Gull - 829 36. Herring Gull - 27 37. Caspian Tern - 5 38. Common Tern - 80 39. Forster's Tern - 6 40. Mourning Dove - 32 41. Belted Kingfisher - 1 42. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 43. Downy Woodpecker - 21 44. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 45. Northern Flicker - 24 46. Willow Flycatcher - 1 46b. Unknown Empidonax - 1 47. Eastern Phoebe - 8 48. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 49. Blue Jay - 39 50. Horned Lark - 6 51. Tree Swallow - 302 52. Black-capped Chickadee - 10 53. Tufted Titmouse - 4 54. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 55. Brown Creeper - 2 56. House Wren - 3 57. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 11 58. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 59. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 60. Swainson's Thrush - 1 61. Hermit Thrush - 1 62. American Robin - 83 63. Gray Catbird - 1 64. European Starling - 1,100 65. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 66. Nashville Warbler - 3 67. Northern Parula - 2 68. Magnolia Warbler -2 69. Cape May Warbler - 2 70. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7 71. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 72. Palm Warbler - 3 73. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 74. Blackpoll Warbler - 13 75. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 76. American Redstart - 2 77. Common Yellowthroat - 6 78. American Tree Sparrow - 1 79. Field Sparrow - 3 80. Song Sparrow - 25 81. Lincoln's Sparrow - 4 82. Swamp Sparrow - 2 83. White-throated Sparrow - 67 84. White-crowned Sparrow - 2 85. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 86. Northern Cardinal - 20 87. Indigo Bunting - 3 88. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,290 89. Eastern Meadowlark - 2 90. Rusty Blackbird - 2 91. Common Grackle - 39 92. Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 93. American Goldfinch - 34 94. House Sparrow - 4 III. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 8 2. Green Frog - 1 IV. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 3 2. White Crappie - 1 (caught by Caspian Tern) V. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Clouded Sulphur - 3 2. American Copper - 1 3. Monarch - 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]