OCT. 03, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census TIME: 8:00am-12:15pm; 1:30pm-5:30pm TEMP.: 46-54 COND.: Cloudy with NE winds at 10-20mph RTS.: Same morning routes as usual except where closed for youth waterfowl hunting; same afternoon routes as usual. GROUP I: 4 persons; GROUP II: 2 persons. OBS: Katie Clink (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus, Michelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Coyote - 1 2. Woodchuck - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 4. Muskrat - 1 5. Meadow Vole - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 3 (2 buck: 4-pt & spike, 1 doe) II. BIRDS: 87 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 491 2. Trumpeter Swan - 19 3. Wood Duck - 189 4. Gadwall - 53 5. American Wigeon - 182 6. American Black Duck - 41 7. Mallard - 1,072 8. Blue-winged Teal - 56 9. Northern Shoveler - 32 10. Northern Pintail - 47 11. Green-winged Teal - 286 12. Hooded Merganser - 1 13. Ruddy Duck - 12 14. Pied-billed Grebe - 16 15. Double-crested Cormorant - 19 16. Great Blue Heron - 51 17. Great Egret - 111 18. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 19. Turkey Vulture - 1 20. Bald Eagle - 9 (4 adult,5 immature) 21. Northern Harrier - 1 22. Cooper's Hawk - 4 23. Red-tailed Hawk - 7 24. Merlin - 1 25. Peregrine Falcon - 2 26. American Coot - 1 27. Killdeer - 21 28. Greater Yellowlegs - 3 29. Lesser Yellowlegs - 17 30. Sanderling - 50 31. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1 32. Pectoral Sandpiper - 5 33. Wilson's Snipe - 3 34. Bonaparte's Gull - 1 35. Ring-billed Gull - 469 36. Herring Gull - 47 37. Caspian Tern - 3 38. Common Tern - 1 39. Mourning Dove - 49 40. Belted Kingfisher - 1 41. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 42. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 43. Downy Woodpecker - 7 44. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 45. Northern Flicker - 11 46. Eastern Phoebe - 2 47. Blue Jay - 16 48. Purple Martin - 1 49. Tree Swallow - 1,163 50. Barn Swallow - 1 51. Black-capped Chickadee - 6 52. Brown Creeper - 1 53. Carolina Wren - 1 54. Marsh Wren - 1 55. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 96 56. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 47 57. Veery - 2 58. Hermit Thrush - 4 59. American Robin - 29 60. Gray Catbird - 2 61. European Starling - 855 62. Cedar Waxwing - 18 63. Cape May Warbler - 1 64. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 47 65. Palm Warbler - 3 66. Blackpoll Warbler - 5 67. American Redstart - 1 68. Common Yellowthroat - 3 69. Chipping Sparrow - 3 70. Field Sparrow - 2 71. Fox Sparrow - 7 72. Song Sparrow - 15 73. Lincoln's Sparrow - 6 74. Swamp Sparrow - 10 75. White-throated Sparrow - 41 76. White-crowned Sparrow - 57 77. Dark-eyed Junco - 16 78. Northern Cardinal - 7 79. Indigo Bunting - 2 80. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,305 81. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 82. Rusty Blackbird - 4 83. Common Grackle - 425 84. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 85. House Finch - 2 86. American Goldfinch - 11 87. House Sparrow - 3 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]