JUNE 06, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-5:30pm TEMP.: 64-72-68 COND.: Gray & overcast early, front from the west; west wind at 5-15mph; mostly cloudy after lunch; high water conditions and many branches and trees down due to overnight storm conditions. OBS.: Group I: 4; Group II: 4 (Katie Clink, Michael O'Brien, Al & Betty Schlecht - morning only; Aaron Bartley, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus) ROUTES: Same morning and afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 2. Muskrat - 3 3. Meadow Vole - 1 4. Eastern Cottontail - 4 5. White-tailed Deer - 10 (2 bucks,8 does) II. BIRDS: 87 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 191 2. Mute Swan - 5 3. Trumpeter Swan - 43 (13 adults,30 cygnets - neck bands on adults: Yellow 3AO, Yellow 1A2, Green 74M, Yellow ?) 4. Wood Duck - 183 5. Mallard - 95 6. Blue-winged Teal - 6 7. Hooded Merganser 1 (female) 8. Ring-necked Pheasant - 2 9. Pied-billed Grebe - 11 (2 young) 10. Double-crested Cormorant - 102 11. Great Blue Heron - 98 12. Great Egret - 151 13. Snowy Egret - 4 14. Green Heron - 3 15. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 6 16. Turkey Vulture - 7 17. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 immature) 18. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. male) 19. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 20. American Kestrel - 2 21. Common Moorhen - 5 22. American Coot - 7 23. Sandhill Crane - 3 (2 adults with 1 down-covered young half the adult's size) 24. Killdeer - 23 (1 nest with 3 eggs) 25. Least Sandpiper - 1 26. American Woodcock - 1 27. Ring-billed Gull - 2 28. Herring Gull - 14 29. Caspian Tern - 1 30. Common Tern - 37 31. Mourning Dove - 9 32. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4 33. Great Horned Owl - 1 34. Chimney Swift - 2 35. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 36. Downy Woodpecker - 7 37. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 38. Northern Flicker - 8 39. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 40. Willow Flycatcher - 26 41. Eastern Phoebe - 3 42. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6 43. Eastern Kingbird - 32 44. White-eyed Vireo - 1 45. Warbling Vireo - 20 46. Blue Jay - 4 47. American Crow - 3 48. Horned Lark - 3 49. Purple Martin - 6 50. Tree Swallow - 249 51. Cliff Swallow - 50 52. Barn Swallow - 25 53. Black-capped Chickadee - 7 54. Tufted Titmouse - 2 55. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 56. Carolina Wren - 2 57. House Wren - 26 58. Marsh Wren - 35 59. Wood Thrush - 2 60. American Robin - 31 61. Gray Catbird - 30 62. Northern Mockingbird - 1 63. Brown Thrasher - 3 64. European Starling - 82 65. Cedar Waxwing - 21 66. Yellow Warbler - 98 67. Prothonotary Warbler - 1 68. Northern Waterthrush - 1 69. Common Yellowthroat - 32 70. Scarlet Tanager - 1 71. Chipping Sparrow - 5 72. Field Sparrow - 28 73. Savannah Sparrow - 2 74. Henslow's Sparrow - 1 75. Song Sparrow - 55 76. Swamp Sparrow - 7 77. Northern Cardinal - 21 78. Indigo Bunting - 27 79. Red-winged Blackbird - 388 80. Eastern Meadowlark - 2 81. Common Grackle - 103 82. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 83. Orchard Oriole - 2 84. Baltimore Oriole - 9 85. House Finch - 1 86. American Goldfinch - 34 87. House Sparrow - 1 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3 2. Red-eared Turtle - 2 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 3 4. Northern Water Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Green Frog - many 2. Bullfrog - 3 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - many VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 27 3. American Copper - 1 4. Spring Azure - 4 5. Painted Lady - 1 6. Viceroy - 2 7. Monarch - 1 8. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2 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]