JUNE 05, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning and afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. GROUP I: 4 persons; GROUP II: 4 persons. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 2:00pm-6:15pm TEMP.: 68-82 COND.: Sunny & pleasant; winds E/NE 5-8mph OBS.: Katie Clink, Delores Cole, Michael O'Brien, Al Schlecht (morning only); Aaron Bartley, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda & Douglas W. Vogus (all day). I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Mink - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 4. Muskrat - 2 5. Eastern Cottontail - 5 6. White-tailed Deer - 7 II. BIRDS: 77 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 329 2. Mute Swan - 1 3. Trumpeter Swan - 33 (15 cygnets); adults with yellow neck band "1A2" and green neck band old & un-readable, possibly "1AM", 7AM" or "14M", 74M". 4. Wood Duck - 199 (1 nestbox with 14 eggs) 5. American Wigeon - 3 6. Mallard - 74 7. Blue-winged Teal - 4 8. Common Merganser - 1 (male at mouth of Crane Creek - possibly injured) 9. Pied-billed Grebe - 21 (10 young) 10. Double-crested Cormorant - 18 11. Least Bittern - 2 12. Great Blue Heron - 97 13. Great Egret - 125 14. Green Heron - 20 15. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 4 16. Bald Eagle - 5 (1 adult,4 immature) 17. Red-tailed Hawk - 7 18. American Kestrel - 1 19. Common Moorhen - 4 20. American Coot - 6 21. Killdeer - 20 22. Spotted Sandpiper - 5 23. Ring-billed Gull - 7 24. Herring Gull - 7 25. Caspian Tern - 1 26. Common Tern - 49 27. Mourning Dove - 8 28. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 29. Chimney Swift - 3 30. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 31. Downy Woodpecker - 7 32. Northern Flicker - 6 33. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6 34. Willow Flycatcher - 28 35. Eastern Phoebe - 2 36. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6 37. Eastern Kingbird - 32 38. Warbling Vireo - 18 (1 on nest) 39. Red-eyed Vireo - 9 40. Blue Jay - 6 41. Purple Martin - 14 42. Tree Swallow - 196 43. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 44. Cliff Swallow - 40 (about 60 nests) 45. Barn Swallow - 32 46. Black-capped Chickadee - 3 47. Tufted Titmouse - 6 48. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 49. Carolina Wren - 1 50. House Wren - 20 51. Sedge Wren - 1 52. Marsh Wren - 34 53. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 54. Wood Thrush - 1 55. American Robin - 59 56. Gray Catbird - 37 57. Brown Thrasher - 7 58. European Starling - 31 59. Cedar Waxwing - 8 60. Yellow Warbler - 156 61. American Redstart - 1 62. Prothonotary Warbler - 3 63. Common Yellowthroat - 45 64. Field Sparrow - 14 65. Savannah Sparrow - 1 66. Song Sparrow - 48 67. Swamp Sparrow - 10 68. Northern Cardinal - 31 69. Indigo Bunting - 33 70. Red-winged Blackbird - 485 71. Eastern Meadowlark - 2 72. Common Grackle - 71 73. Brown-headed Cowbird - 13 74. Orchard Oriole - 3 75. Baltimore Oriole - 19 76. American Goldfinch - 26 77. House Sparrow - 4 III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Red-eared Turtle - 4 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 21 4. Northern Water Snake - 2 5. Eastern Garter Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - many 2. Green Frog - many V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - many 2. Bluegill - 4 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern black Swallowtail - 6 2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 4 3. Pearl Crescent - 1 4. Viceroy - 2 5. Monarch - 3 6. Silver-spotted Skipper - 7 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]