MAY 02, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-5:00pm TEMP.: 60-75 COND.: Dry, heavy overcast; winds SW at 10-15mph ROUTES: Same usual morning and afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. OBS.: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Bert Szabo (afternoon only). I. BIRDS: 93 SPECIES,1 RELEASE. Canada Goose - 263 Mute Swan - 19 Trumpeter Swan - 24 (yellow band "3A8") Wood Duck - 14 Gadwall - 13 American Black Duck - 2 Mallard - 35 Blue-winged Teal - 23 Green-winged Teal - 5 Common Goldeneye - 2 Hooded Merganser - 1 Ruddy Duck - 4 Ring-necked Pheasant - 1 Pied-billed Grebe - 9 Double-crested Cormorant - 31 American Bittern - 1 Great Blue Heron - 79 Great Egret - 78 Green Heron - 1 Turkey Vulture - 10 Bald Eagle - 8 (4 adult,4 imm.) Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 American Kestrel - 1 Merlin - 1 Virginia Rail - 3 Sora - 4 American Coot - 1 Killdeer - 14 Greater Yellowlegs - 2 Solitary Sandpiper - 3 Dunlin - 100 Wilson's Snipe - 7 Ring-billed Gull - 10 Herring Gull - 7 Caspian Tern - 4 Common Tern - 30 Mourning Dove - 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Chimney Swift - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 5 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Eastern Kingbird - 6 Warbling Vireo - 6 Blue Jay - 54 Horned Lark - 3 Purple Martin - 9 Tree Swallow - 398 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 Cliff Swallow - 20 Barn Swallow - 20 Black-capped Chickadee - 5 Tufted Titmouse - 3 Carolina Wren - 1 House Wren - 15 Marsh Wren - 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 Eastern Bluebird - 1 Wood Thrush - 3 American Robin - 47 Gray Catbird - 37 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Brown Thrasher - 7 European Starling - 5 Blue-winged Warbler - 1 Yellow Warbler - 86 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15 Palm Warbler - 16 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Mourning Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 19 Hooded Warbler - 3 Chipping Sparrow - 1 Field Sparrow - 29 Savannah Sparrow - 1 Song Sparrow - 17 Swamp Sparrow - 18 White-throated Sparrow - 10 White-crowned Sparrow - 4 Northern Cardinal - 17 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 Red-winged Blackbird - 630 Eastern Meadowlark - 2 Rusty Blackbird - 14 Common Grackle - 136 Brown-headed Cowbird - 7 Baltimore Oriole - 5 American Goldfinch - 22 House Sparrow - 4 Douglas W. Vogus (for Ed Pierce), 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]