SEPTEMBER 05, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:45pm; 2:00pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 48-68 COND.: Mostly sunny & dry; winds SW at 10-15mph; exposed mudflats along Crane Creek. GROUP I: 4 persons. GROUP II: 6 persons. RTS.: Same morning and afternoon routes with much more time concentrated on exposed mudflats. OBS.: Aaron Bartley, Jeff & Maureen Buecking (morning only), Katie Clink (morning only), Rob & Sandy Harlan (morning only), Debra Kibble (afternoon only), Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Larry Raper (afternoon only), Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht (morning only). I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 2. Muskrat - 1 3. Eastern Cottontail - 1 4. White-tailed Deer - 2 II. BIRDS: 115 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 142 2. Trumpeter Swan - 25 (4 juv.) 3. Wood Duck - 93 4. Gadwall - 18 5. American Wigeon - 5 6. American Black Duck - 2 7. Mallard - 216 8. Blue-winged Teal - 119 9. Northern Shoveler - 13 10. Green-winged Teal - 100 11. Pied-billed Grebe - 2 12. Double-crested Cormorant - 28 13. Great Blue Heron - 56 14. Great Egret - 257 15. Snowy Egret - 6 16. Green Heron - 1 17. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 18. Turkey Vulture - 3 19. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 imm.) 20. Cooper's Hawk - 3 21. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 22. American Kestrel - 2 23. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (caught a Bonaparte's Gull) 24. Sora - 1 25. Common Moorhen - 2 26. Sandhill Crane - 3 27. Black-bellied Plover - 7 28. Semipalmated Plover - 5 29. Killdeer - 275 30. American Avocet - 1 31. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 32. Solitary Sandpiper - 3 33. Greater Yellowlegs - 10 34. Willet - 1 35. Lesser Yellowlegs - 142 36. Marbled Godwit - 1 37. Red Knot - 1 38. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 30 39. Least Sandpiper - 40 40. Baird's Sandpiper - 8 41. Pectoral Sandpiper - 25 42. Dunlin - 1 43. Stilt Sandpiper - 10 44. Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 3 45. Short-billed Dowitcher - 2 46. Red-necked Phalarope - 1 47. Bonaparte's Gull - 86 48. Ring-billed Gull - 215 49. Herring Gull - 20 50. Caspian Tern - 32 51. Common Tern - 700 52. Forster's Tern - 30 53. Mourning Dove - 51 54. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 55. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 56. Belted Kingfisher - 1 57. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 58. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 59. Downy Woodpecker - 21 60. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 61. Northern Flicker - 5 62. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 8 63. Least Flycatcher - 2 64. Eastern Phoebe - 14 65. Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 66. Eastern Kingbird - 4 67. Warbling Vireo - 25 68. Philadelphia Vireo - 1 69. Red-eyed Vireo - 7 70. Blue Jay - 27 71. Tree Swallow - 805 72. Barn Swallow - 36 73. Black-capped Chickadee - 6 74. Tufted Titmouse - 4 75. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 76. Carolina Wren - 2 77. House Wren - 22 78. Marsh Wren - 3 79. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 80. Eastern Bluebird - 3 81. Swainson's Thrush - 4 82. American Robin - 60 83. Gray Catbird - 43 84. Brown Thrasher - 1 85. European Starling - 1,355 86. Cedar Waxwing - 28 87. Tennessee Warbler - 1 88. Nashville Warbler - 2 89. Magnolia Warbler - 3 90. Cape May Warbler - 1 91. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 92. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 93. Palm Warbler - 9 94. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 95. Blackpoll Warbler - 15 96. American Redstart - 16 97. Common Yellowthroat - 61 98. Wilson's Warbler - 1 99. Canada Warbler - 1 100. Chipping Sparrow - 1 101. Field Sparrow - 62 102. Song Sparrow - 17 103. Swamp Sparrow - 3 104. Northern Cardinal - 12 105. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 106. Indigo Bunting - 52 107. Bobolink - 1 108. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,600 109. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 110. Yellow-headed Blackbird - 1 111. Common Grackle - 10 112. Brown-headed Cowbird - 18 113. House Finch - 4 114. American Goldfinch - 136 115. House Sparrow - 4 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - many IV. BUTTERFLIES: 11 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 2. Spicebush Swallowtail - 1 3. Cabbage Butterfly - 50 4. Clouded Sulphur - 100 5. Bronze Copper - 1 6. Summer Azure - 1 7. Pearl Crescent - 5 8. Common Buckeye - 50 9. Red-spotted Purple - 1 10. Monarch - 50 (strong Monarch migration throughout day) 11. Least Skipper - 4 V. DRAGONFLIES: 8 SPECIES. 1. Carolina Saddlebags - 1 2. Black Saddlebags - 5 3. Green Darner - 5 4. Halloween Pennant - 1 5. Eastern Forktail - 5 6. Spotwing Glider - 1 7. Eastern Pondhawk - 1 8. Autumn Meadowhawk - 10 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]