AUGUST 07, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census TIME: 8:00am-11:30am; 1:00pm-5:10pm TEMP.: 75-88-74 COND.: Sunny, hot & humid; light rain from 4:30pm-5:00pm; wind W at 5mph GROUP I: 4 persons GROUP II: 3 persons. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. OBS.: Katie Clink & Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. (NOTE: Totals include morning (5:00am-10:00am) shorebird banding results from Tom Bartlett & Kevin Norris). I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Mink - 1 2. Woodchuck - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 4. Meadow Vole - 1 5. White-tailed Deer - 2 II. BIRDS: 87 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 125 2. Trumpeter Swan - 33 (13 immature; adult neckbands: M74(green),1A3(yellow) & 8A0 (yellow) 3. Wood Duck - 94 4. Gadwall - 2 5. Mallard - 120 6. Blue-winged Teal - 5 7. Pied-billed Grebe - 6 8. Double-crested Cormorant - 14 9. Least Bittern - 2 10. Great Blue Heron - 63 11. Great Egret - 125 12. Snowy Egret - 30 13. Green Heron - 3 14. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 4 15. Turkey Vulture - 1 16. Osprey - 1 17. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature) 18. Cooper's Hawk - 1 19. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 20. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 21. American Coot - 1 22. Sandhill Crane - 7 23. Semipalmated Plover - 8 24. Killdeer - 38 25. Greater Yellowlegs - 14 26. Lesser Yellowlegs - 54 27. Solitary Sandpiper - 2 28. Spotted Sandpiper - 8 29. Marbled Godwit - 1 30. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 15 31. Least Sandpiper - 45 32. Pectoral Sandpiper - 2 33. Stilt Sandpiper - 1 34. Short-billed Dowitcher - 37 35. Long-billed Dowitcher - 2 36. Ring-billed Gull - 49 37. Herring Gull - 1 38. Caspian Tern - 3 39. Common Tern - 6 40. Rock Pigeon - 1 41. Mourning Dove - 23 42. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 43. Chimney Swift - 1 44. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 12 45. Belted Kingfisher - 1 46. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 47. Downy Woodpecker - 10 48. Northern Flicker - 10 49. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 50. Willow Flycatcher - 10 51. Eastern Phoebe - 5 52. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 53. Eastern Kingbird - 52 54. Warbling Vireo - 6 55. Blue Jay - 8 56. Purple Martin - 15 57. Tree Swallow - 240 58. Bank Swallow - 5 59. Cliff Swallow - 1 60. Barn Swallow - 70 61. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 62. Tufted Titmouse - 5 63. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 64. Carolina Wren - 1 65. House Wren - 7 66. Marsh Wren - 10 67. American Robin - 35 68. Gray Catbird - 40 69. European Starling - 326 70. Cedar Waxwing - 53 71. Yellow Warbler - 38 72. Prothonotary Warbler - 1 73. Common Yellowthroat - 11 74. Chipping Sparrow - 1 75. Field Sparrow - 12 76. Song Sparrow - 69 77. Swamp Sparrow - 11 78. Northern Cardinal - 30 79. Indigo Bunting - 28 80. Bobolink - 7 81. Red-winged Blackbird - 153 82. Common Grackle - 39 83. Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 84. Baltimore Oriole - 4 85. House Finch - 10 86. American Goldfinch - 39 87. House Sparrow - 3 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Red-eared Turtle - 3 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 6 3. Northern Water Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Green Frog - 4 2. Northern Leopard Frog - 17 V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Longnose Gar - 1 2. Common Carp - yes 3. Unknown Minnows - many 4. Pumpkinseed - 7 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 10 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3 2. Spicebush Swallowtail - 1 3. Cabbage Butterfly - 22 4. Clouded Sulphur - 7 5. Summer Azure - 1 6. Pearl Crescent - 5 7. Buckeye - 9 8. Viceroy - 2 9. Monarch - 6 10. Silver-spotted Skipper - 6 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]