SEPTEMBER 02, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 2:00pm-7:15pm TEMP.: 70-80-74 COND.: Overcast early with light sprinkles, then cloudy; SW wind early switching to W then NE at 5-10mph. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. OBS.: Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Leslie Sours, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 4 2. Striped Skunk - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 4. White-tailed Deer - 8 II. BIRDS: 108 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 271 2. Mute Swan - 5 3. Trumpeter Swan - 26 (one with yellow neckband too far off to read) 4. Wood Duck - 357 5. American Wigeon - 1 6. American Black Duck - 3 7. Mallard - 219 8. Blue-winged Teal - 160 9. Northern Shoveler - 12 10. Northern Pintail - 11 11. Green-winged Teal - 238 12. Pied-billed Grebe - 22 13. Double-crested Cormorant - 1,418 14. Great Blue Heron - 106 15. Great Egret - 172 16. Snowy Egret - 26 17. Little Blue Heron - 1 (immature) 18. Green Heron - 3 19. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 35 20. Turkey Vulture - 3 21. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult, 2 immature) 22. Northern Harrier - 3 23. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 24. Cooper's Hawk - 2 25. Red-tailed Hawk - 10 26. Peregrine Falcon - 2 27. Sora - 7 28. Common Gallinule - 4 29. Sandhill Crane - 2 (adults) 30. Black-bellied Plover - 10 31. Semipalmated Plover - 15 32. Killdeer - 52 33. Spotted Sandpiper - 4 34. Solitary Sandpiper - 3 35. Greater Yellowlegs - 20 36. Lesser Yellowlegs - 33 37. Hudsonian Godwit - 4 38. Marbled Godwit - 2 39. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 40 40. Baird's Sandpiper - 2 41. Stilt Sandpiper - 5 42. Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 2 43. Short-billed Dowitcher - 18 44. Wilson's Snipe - 2 45. Ring-billed Gull - 360 46. Herring Gull - 18 47. Caspian Tern - 14 48. Common Tern - 24 49. Forster's Tern - 108 50. Mourning Dove - 160 51. Great Horned Owl - 1 52. Chimney Swift - 14 53. Belted Kingfisher - 3 54. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 55. Downy Woodpecker - 8 56. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 57. Northern Flicker - 25 58. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 59. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 60. Willow Flycatcher - 2 61. Eastern Phoebe - 17 62. Eastern Kingbird - 4 63. Warbling Vireo - 10 64. Red-eyed Vireo - 3 65. Blue Jay - 17 66. Purple Martin - 79 67. Tree Swallow - 271 68. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 69. Barn Swallow - 39 70. Black-capped Chickadee - 4 71. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 5 72. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 73. Carolina Wren - 2 74. House Wren - 7 75. Sedge Wren - 1 76. Marsh Wren - 3 77. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 78. Eastern Bluebird - 1 79. Swainson's Thrush - 9 80. American Robin - 96 81. Gray Catbird - 38 82. Brown Thrasher - 1 83. European Starling - 457 84. Cedar Waxwing - 62 85. Unidentified Waterthrush - 1 86. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 87. Common Yellowthroat - 9 88. Magnolia Warbler - 1 89. Yellow Warbler - 1 90. Blackpoll Warbler - 2 91. Wilson's Warbler - 1 92. Chipping Sparrow - 10 93. Field Sparrow - 13 94. Lark Sparrow - 1 (immature bird found at 9:00am by D. Vogus at intersection of Krause & Stange Rds.) 95. Savannah Sparrow - 8 96. Song Sparrow - 14 97. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 98. Swamp Sparrow - 1 99. Northern Cardinal - 14 100. Indigo Bunting - 20 101. Bobolink - 6 102. Red-winged Blackbird - 4,997 103. Common Grackle - 130 104. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 105. Baltimore Oriole - 4 106. House Finch - 5 107. American Goldfinch - 60 108. House Sparrow - 29 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Blanding's Turtle - 1 2. Northern Water Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Leopard Frog - 1 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - yes! 2. Pumpkinseed - 3 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 11 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 3. Cabbage Butterfly - 9 4. Clouded Sulphur - 6 5. Cloudless Sulphur - 3 6. Dainty Sulphur - 5 7. Pearl Crescent - 5 8. American Painted Lady - 1 9. Buckeye - 40+ 10. Viceroy - 6 11. Monarch - 4 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]