JULY 01, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-1:30pm; 2:30pm-6:45pm TEMP.: 74-90-80 COND.: Hot & breezy; front from the west at 5:30pm, cloudy, gray with rain & temperatures dropping. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. OBS.: Katie Clink & Michael O'Brien (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 3 2. Woodchuck - 2 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 4. Muskrat - 2 5. Eastern Cottontail - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 3 II. BIRDS: 89 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 124 2. Mute Swan - 4 (2 adult with 2 young) 3. Trumpeter Swan - 29 4. Wood Duck - 56 5. Mallard - 39 6. Pied-billed Grebe - 37 7. Double-crested Cormorant - 10 8. Great Blue Heron - 142 9. Great Egret - 103 10. Snowy Egret - 12 11. Little Blue Heron - 1 (adult) 12. Green Heron - 2 13. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 24 14. White-faced Ibis - 1 (adult in Pool 2a) 15. Turkey Vulture - 2 16. Bald Eagle - 7 (2 adult,5 immature) 17. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 18. Common Gallinule - 2 19. Sandhill Crane - 4 (adults) 20. Killdeer - 188 21. Spotted Sandpiper - 10 22. Greater Yellowlegs - 1 23. Lesser Yellowlegs - 8 24. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 7 25. Least Sandpiper - 9 26. Short-billed Dowitcher - 10 27. Bonaparte's Gull - 6 28. Ring-billed Gull - 69 29. Herring Gull - 21 30. Caspian Tern - 1 31. Black Tern - 1 32. Common Tern - 71 33. Forster's Tern - 5 34. Mourning Dove - 20 35. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3 36. Great Horned Owl - 1 37. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 38. Downy Woodpecker - 9 39. Northern Flicker - 12 40. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 7 41. Willow Flycatcher - 11 42. Eastern Phoebe - 5 43. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 44. Eastern Kingbird - 37 (1 nest with 2 young) 45. Warbling Vireo - 25 46. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 47. Blue Jay - 6 48. Horned Lark - 2 49. Purple Martin - 26 50. Tree Swallow - 155 51. Cliff Swallow - 17 (5 new nests under Crane Creek bridge) 52. Barn Swallow - 45 53. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 54. Tufted Titmouse - 1 55. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 56. Carolina Wren - 2 57. House Wren - 30 58. Marsh Wren - 25 59. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (1 adult feeding 1 immature) 60. Wood Thrush - 1 61. American Robin - 35 62. Gray Catbird - 42 63. Brown Thrasher - 3 64. European Starling - 61 65. Cedar Waxwing - 7 66. Prothonotary Warbler - 4 67. Common Yellowthroat - 59 68. Yellow Warbler - 43 69. Chipping Sparrow - 8 70. Field Sparrow - 12 71. Vesper Sparrow - 1 (hedgerow northeast of Adam Grimm Prairie) 72. Savannah Sparrow - 3 73. Grasshopper Sparrow - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie) 74. Henslow's Sparrow - 3 (Adam Grimm Prairie) 75. Song Sparrow - 44 76. Swamp Sparrow - 15 77. Northern Cardinal - 23 78. Indigo Bunting - 20 79. Dickcissel - 17 80. Bobolink - 21 81. Red-winged Blackbird - 815 82. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 83. Common Grackle - 68 84. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16 85. Orchard Oriole - 2 86. Baltimore Oriole - 13 87. House Finch - 5 88. American Goldfinch - 42 89. House Sparrow - 8 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog 2. Green Frog 3. Northern Leopard Frog V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp 2. Largemouth Bass VI. BUTTERFLIES: 9 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 11 3. Clouded Sulphur - 6 4. Cloudless Sulphur - 4 (all together in prairie east of Stange Rd. observation deck) 5. Orange Sulphur - 4 6. Eastern Tailed Blue - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie) 7. Pearl Crescent - 2 8. Buckeye - 11 9. Monarch - 8 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]