AUGUST 05, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 69-85 COND.: Overcast early turning to rain & lightning from 8:30am-10:30am; clearing out to mostly sunny & warm. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. OBS.: Tom Bartlett (morning only), Katie Clink (morning only), Michael David, Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Woodchuck - 2 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 3. Meadow Vole - 1 4. Muskrat - 2 5. Eastern Cottontail - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 15 (6-pt. buck, 13 doe, 1 yearling) II. BIRDS: 91 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 70 2. Trumpeter Swan - 33 (two with yellow neckbands: "3A0" & "3A8") 3. Wood Duck - 115 4. Mallard - 165 5. Green-winged Teal - 2 6. Hooded Merganser - 2 7. Pied-billed Grebe - 10 8. Double-crested Cormorant - 14 9. American Bittern - 1 10. Great Blue Heron - 166 11. Great Egret - 290 12. Snowy Egret - 24 13. Little Blue Heron - 1 (immature) 14. Green Heron - 12 15. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 46 16. Bald Eagle - 8 (4 adult, 4 immature) 17. Northern Harrier - 1 (female) 18. Cooper's Hawk - 4 19. Red-tailed Hawk - 14 20. Peregrine Falcon - 2 21. Common Gallinule - 1 22. Semipalmated Plover - 9 23. Killdeer - 102 24. Spotted Sandpiper - 37 25. Greater Yellowlegs - 29 26. Lesser Yellowlegs - 128 27. Ruddy Turnstone - 1 28. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 14 29. Least Sandpiper - 49 30. Pectoral Sandpiper - 21 31. Dunlin - 1 32. Stilt Sandpiper - 21 33. Short-billed Dowitcher - 71 34. Wilson's Snipe - 1 35. Bonaparte's Gull - 96 36. Ring-billed Gull - 165 37. Herring Gull - 17 38. Caspian Tern - 12 39. Black Tern - 1 (immature) 40. Common Tern - 221 41. Forster's Tern - 322 42. Mourning Dove - 28 43. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 44. Great Horned Owl - 1 45. Chimney Swift - 6 46. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5 47. Belted Kingfisher - 9 48. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 49. Downy Woodpecker - 10 50. Northern Flicker - 13 51. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 8 52. Willow Flycatcher - 22 53. Eastern Phoebe - 8 54. Eastern Kingbird - 52 55. Warbling Vireo - 3 56. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 57. Blue Jay - 5 58. Purple Martin - 58 59. Tree Swallow - 339 60. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 30 61. Bank Swallow - 2 62. Cliff Swallow - 1 63. Barn Swallow - 82 64. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 65. Carolina Wren - 3 66. House Wren - 4 67. Marsh Wren - 9 68. American Robin - 43 69. Gray Catbird - 25 70. Brown Thrasher - 1 71. European Starling - 652 72. Cedar Waxwing - 6 73. Common Yellowthroat - 16 74. Yellow Warbler - 22 75. Field Sparrow - 18 76. Savannah Sparrow - 2 77. Henslow's Sparrow - 2 78. Song Sparrow - 37 79. Swamp Sparrow - 4 80. Northern Cardinal - 16 81. Indigo Bunting - 10 82. Dickcissel - 3 83. Bobolink - 22 84. Red-winged Blackbird - 623 85. Common Grackle - 229 86. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 87. Orchard Oriole - 1 88. Baltimore Oriole - 7 89. House Finch - 3 90. American Goldfinch - 27 91. House Sparrow - 3 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Red-eared Turtle - 2 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 3 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Green Frog - 1 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - many VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 2 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 11 3. Clouded Sulphur - 3 4. Orange Sulphur - 3 5. Buckeye - 17 6. Red-spotted Purple - 1 7. Viceroy - 3 8. Monarch - 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]