MAY 01, 2011 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-1:00pm; 2:30pm-8:00pm TEMP.: 54-64 COND.: Overcast; winds SW at 10-15mph. ROUTES: Same morning & afternoon routes as usual except where closed for eagle nesting. OBS.: Aaron Bartley & his dad, Katie Clink (morning only), Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Bert Szabo (afternoon only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Mink - 1 3. Woodchuck - 2 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 5. Muskrat - 6 6. Eastern Cottontail - 3 7. White-tailed Deer - 7 II. BIRDS: 140 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 371 2. Mute Swan - 4 3. Trumpeter Swan - 30 (yellow neckband "3A0") 4. Wood Duck - 70 5. Gadwall - 110 6. American Wigeon - 9 7. Mallard - 33 8. Blue-winged Teal - 52 9. Northern Shoveler - 5 10. Green-winged Teal - 14 11. Redhead - 2 12. Ring-necked Duck - 16 13. Lesser Scaup - 26 14. Hooded Merganser - 1 15. Ruddy Duck - 108 16. Pied-billed Grebe - 39 17. Horned Grebe - 2 18. Double-crested Cormorant - 64 19. American Bittern - 1 20. Great Blue Heron - 92 21. Great Egret - 94 22. Cattle Egret - 5 23. Green Heron - 13 24. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 4 25. Turkey Vulture - 2 26. Osprey - 1 27. Bald Eagle - 17 (6 adult, 11 immature) 28. Northern Harrier - 1 29. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 30. Cooper's Hawk - 2 31. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 32. American Kestrel - 1 33. Merlin - 1 34. Peregrine Falcon - 1 35. Sora - 2 36. Common Moorhen - 2 37. American Coot - 241 38. Sandhill Crane - 1 39. Killdeer - 19 40. Greater Yellowlegs - 3 41. Lesser Yellowlegs - 12 42. Solitary Sandpiper - 5 43. Spotted Sandpiper - 8 44. Ring-billed Gull - 37 45. Herring Gull - 34 46. Caspian Tern - 5 47. Common Tern - 30 48. Mourning Dove - 13 49. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 50. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 51. Chimney Swift - 10 52. Belted Kingfisher - 4 53. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 54. Downy Woodpecker - 16 55. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 56. Northern Flicker - 13 57. Eastern Phoebe - 3 58. Great Crested Flycatcher - 5 59. Eastern KIngbird - 14 60. White-eyed Vireo - 2 61. Blue-headed Vireo - 8 62. Warbling Vireo - 8 63. Blue Jay - 340 64. American Crow - 2 65. Horned Lark - 2 66. Purple Martin - 8 67. Tree Swallow - 455 68. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8 69. Bank Swallow - 5 70. Cliff Swallow - 38 71. Barn Swallow - 31 72. Black-capped Chickadee - 5 73. Tufted Titmouse - 1 74. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 75. Brown Creeper - 1 76. Carolina Wren - 1 77. House Wren - 16 78. Marsh Wren - 3 79. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 6 80. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 11 81. Veery - 3 82. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 83. Swainson's Thrush - 10 84. Hermit Thrush - 3 85. Wood Thrush - 5 86. American Robin - 66 (1 nest with 1 egg) 87. Gray Catbird - 51 88. Northern Mockingbird - 1 89. Brown Thrasher - 6 90. European Starling - 38 91. Blue-winged Warbler - 2 92. Tennessee Warbler - 2 93. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 94. Nashville Warbler - 17 95. Northern Parula - 2 96. Yellow Warbler - 102 97. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 6 98. Magnolia Warbler - 4 99. Cape May Warbler - 1 100. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 6 101. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 331 102. Black-throated Green WArbler - 4 103. Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 104. Palm Warbler - 114 105. Black-and-white Warbler - 3 106. Prothonotary Warbler - 1 107. Ovenbird - 2 108. Northern Waterthrush - 9 109. Common Yellowthroat - 21 110. Hooded Warbler - 1 111. Wilson's Warbler - 1 112. Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 113. Scarlet Tanager - 1 114. Eastern Towhee - 3 115. American Tree Sparrow - 3 116. Chipping Sparrow - 10 117. Clay-colored Sparrow - 1 (obs.: AB,EP,JR,DV) 118. Field Sparrow - 17 119. Savannah Sparrow - 4 120. Grasshopper Sparrow - 1 121. Song Sparrow - 55 122. Lincoln's Sparrow - 9 123. Swamp Sparrow - 22 124. White-throated Sparrow - 124 125. White-crowned Sparrow - 42 126. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 127. Northern Cardinal - 38 128. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 13 129. Bobolink - 3 130. Red-winged Blackbird - 486 131. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 132. Rusty Blackbird - 6 133. Common Grackle - 110 134. Brown-headed Cowbird - 40 135. Orchard Oriole - 1 136. Baltimore Oriole - 9 137. House Finch - 4 138. Pine Siskin - 1 139. American Goldfinch - 22 140. House Sparrow - 6 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp 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]