MAY 06, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:20pm; 2:30pm-7:00pm TEMP.: 50-64-62 COND.: Mostly sunny during the morning; clouds/sun mix after lunch; wind NE at 5-15mph. GROUP I: 2 observers; GROUP II: 6 observers. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Jeff & Marian Kraus (morning only), Rick Nelson (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, John Shaffer, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 2. Meadow Vole - 1 3. Muskrat - 2 II. BIRDS: 117 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 220 2. Mute Swan - 2 3. Trumpeter Swan - 26 (one with neckband "1A2" - yellow) 4. Wood Duck - 20 5. Gadwall - 2 (1m,1f) 6. American Wigeon - 2 (1m,1f) 7. Mallard - 55 8. Blue-winged Teal - 14 9. Green-winged Teal - 4 (2m,2f) 10. Greater Scaup - 15 (m - in Lake Erie) 11. White-winged Scoter - 1 (adult female - with the scaup in Lake Erie) 12. Hooded Merganser - 1 (m) 13. Red-breasted Merganser - 1 (f) 14. Ring-necked Pheasant - 1 15. Pied-billed Grebe - 7 16. Double-crested Cormorant - 32 17. Great Blue Heron - 78 18. Great Egret - 101 19. Snowy Egret - 4 20. Green Heron - 1 21. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 22. Turkey Vulture - 8 23. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 immature) 24. Northern Harrier - 2 25. Cooper's Hawk - 2 26. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 27. American Kestrel - 1 28. Virginia Rail - 1 29. Sora - 3 30. Common Moorhen - 12 31. American Coot - 47 32. Sandhill Crane - 2 33. Semipalmated Plover - 3 34. Killdeer - 20 (1 nest with 4 eggs) 35. Greater Yellowlegs - 9 36. Lesser Yellowlegs - 8 37. Solitary Sandpiper - 5 38. Spotted Sandpiper - 6 39. Least Sandpiper - 4 40. Dunlin - 194 41. Herring Gull - 20 42. Common Tern - 11 43. Forster's Tern - 1 44. Rock Pigeon - 1 45. Mourning Dove - 8 46. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 47. Chimney Swift - 3 48. Belted Kingfisher - 1 49. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 50. Downy Woodpecker - 6 51. Northern Flicker - 6 52. Willow Flycatcher - 2 53. Least Flycatcher - 2 54. Eastern Phoebe - 2 55. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6 56. Eastern Kingbird - 26 57. Warbling Vireo - 39 58. Blue Jay - 17 59. Horned Lark - 7 60. Purple Martin - 22 61. Tree Swallow - 177 62. Cliff Swallow - 30 63. Barn Swallow - 37 64. Black-capped Chickadee - 6 65. Tufted Titmouse - 2 66. Carolina Wren - 1 67. House Wren - 29 68. Marsh Wren - 22 69. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 70. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 71. Veery - 1 72. Swainson's Thrush - 1 73. Wood Thrush - 2 74. American Robin - 41 75. Gray Catbird - 62 76. Brown Thrasher - 2 77. European Starling - 57 78. Nashville Warbler - 3 79. Northern Parula - 1 80. Yellow Warbler - 327 81. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 82. Magnolia Warbler - 3 83. Cape May Warbler - 1 84. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 30 85. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 86. Palm Warbler - 17 87. Cerulean Warbler - 1 88. Black-and-white Warbler - 3 89. Prothonotary Warbler - 6 90. Ovenbird - 1 91. Northern Waterthrush - 5 92. Common Yellowthroat - 38 93. Wilson's Warbler - 1 94. Canada Warbler - 1 95. Scarlet Tanager - 1 96. Eastern Towhee - 1 97. American Tree Sparrow - 1 98. Chipping Sparrow - 5 99. Field Sparrow - 9 100. Savannah Sparrow - 6 101. Henslow's Sparrow - 2 (Adam Grimm Prairie) 102. Song Sparrow - 40 103. Swamp Sparrow - 13 104. White-throated Sparrow - 3 105. White-crowned Sparrow - 7 106. Northern Cardinal - 32 107. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 108. Indigo Bunting - 7 109. Red-winged Blackbird - 430 110. Eastern Meadowlark - 2 111. Rusty Blackbird - 5 112. Common Grackle - 90 113. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 114. Orchard Oriole - 1 115. Baltimore Oriole - 29 116. American Goldfinch - 18 117. House Sparrow - 9 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 2 2. Northern Water Snake - 1 3. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 4. Black Rat Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Gray Treefrog 2. Bullfrog 3. Green Frog 4. Northern Leopard Frog V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 4 3. Clouded Sulphur - 4 4. Pearl Crescent - 2 5. Gray Comma - 3 6. Red Admiral - 6 7. Painted Lady - 1 8. Monarch - 2 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]