SEPTEMBER 04, 2011 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-6:15pm TEMP.: 56-77-64 COND.: Cloudy & hazy early, warming throughout; front from the west later, cloudy & cooling down; winds W light & variable early, 5-15mph later with brief sprinkles. ROUTES: Same morning & afternoon routes as usual. GROUP I: 4 persons; GROUP II: 5 persons. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Craig Griffin (afternoon only), Rob & Sandy Harlan, Debra Kibble (afternoon only), Donna Kuhn, Marie Morgan (afternoon only), Ed Pierce, Larry Raper (afternoon only), Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 2. Muskrat - 3 3. Eastern Cottontail - 2 4. White-tailed Deer - 4 II. BIRDS: 108 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 108 2. Mute Swan - 2 3. Trumpeter Swan - 38 4. Wood Duck - 128 5. Gadwall - 7 6. American Black Duck - 2 7. Mallard - 396 8. Blue-winged Teal - 68 9. Northern Shoveler - 3 10. Northern Pintail - 1 11. Green-winged Teal - 12 12. Pied-billed Grebe - 16 13. Double-crested Cormorant - 41 14. Great Blue Heron - 95 15. Great Egret - 314 16. Snowy Egret - 24 17. Green Heron - 5 18. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 19. Bald Eagle - 6 (2 adult,4 immature) 20. Red-tailed Hawk - 7 21. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (Jen Brumfield) 22. Sora - 4 23. Common Moorhen - 1 24. Black-bellied Plover - 1 25. Semipalmated Plover - 4 26. Killdeer - 12 27. Greater Yellowlegs - 21 28. Lesser Yellowlegs - 46 29. Solitary Sandpiper - 1 30. Spotted Sandpiper - 5 31. Hudsonian Godwit - 2 (Jen Brumfield) 32. Marbled Godwit - 1 33. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 9 34. Least Sandpiper - 10 35. White-rumped Sandpiper - 1 36. Baird's Sandpiper - 1 37. Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 38. Stilt Sandpiper - 14 39. Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 1 40. Short-billed Dowitcher - 27 41. Ring-billed Gull - 239 42. Herring Gull - 5 43. Caspian Tern - 83 44. Common Tern - 469 45. Forster's Tern - 13 46. Mourning Dove - 28 47. Chimney Swift - 14 48. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 49. Belted Kingfisher - 3 50. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 51. Downy Woodpecker - 26 52. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 53. Northern Flicker - 5 54. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 10 55. Willow Flycatcher - 1 56. Eastern Phoebe - 7 57. Great Crested Flycatcher - 4 58. Eastern Kingbird - 16 59. Warbling Vireo - 14 60. Philadelphia Vireo - 1 61. Red-eyed Vireo - 5 62. Blue Jay - 17 63. American Crow - 2 64. Purple Martin - 3 65. Tree Swallow - 405 66. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 67. Bank Swallow - 1 68. Barn Swallow - 7 69. Black-capped Chickadee - 6 70. Tufted Titmouse - 2 71. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 72. House Wren - 7 73. Marsh Wren - 9 74. Veery - 2 75. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 76. Swainson's Thrush - 12 77. Wood Thrush - 1 78. American Robin - 133 79. Gray Catbird - 43 80. Brown Thrasher - 2 81. European Starling - 309 82. Cedar Waxwing - 64 83. Tennessee Warbler - 5 84. Orange-crowned Warbler - 2 85. Nashville Warbler - 1 86. Yellow Warbler - 2 87. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 88. Magnolia Warbler - 4 89. Blackpoll Warbler - 4 90. American Redstart - 3 91. Prothonotary Warbler - 1 92. Northern Waterthrush - 1 93. Common Yellowthroat - 22 94. Wilson's Warbler - 1 95. Canada Warbler - 1 96. Field Sparrow - 15 97. Savannah Sparrow - 2 98. Song Sparrow - 30 99. Swamp Sparrow - 6 100. Northern Cardinal - 32 101. Indigo Bunting - 9 102. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,453 (1 leucistic bird in a large flock off Veler Rd.) 103. Common Grackle - 34 104. Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 105. Baltimore Oriole - 17 106. House Finch - 4 107. American Goldfinch - 59 108. House Sparrow - 2 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Red-eared Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 2 3. Eastern Fox Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 4 (1 eating a Green Frog) 2. Green Frog - many 3. Northern Leopard Frog - many V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - many VI. BUTTERFLIES: 14 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail 2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3. Cabbage Butterfly 4. Clouded Sulphur 5. Bronze Copper 6. Eastern Tailed-Blue 7. Pearl Crescent 8. Red Admiral 9. Buckeye 10. Red-spotted Purple 11. Viceroy 12. Monarch 13. Silver-spotted Skipper 14. Least Skipper 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]