OCTOBER 07, 2012 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:45pm; 2:15pm-4:45pm TEMP.: 46-55-53 COND.: Cool & mostly cloudy, west winds 5-10mph. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - (afternoon cut short due to vehicle problems). OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 3. White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe) II. BIRDS: 102 SPECIES. 1. Snow Goose - 9 (blue phase) 2. Canada Goose - 306 3. Mute Swan - 2 4. Trumpeter Swan - 21 (one with yellow neck-band "3AO") 5. Wood Duck - 70 6. Gadwall - 178 7. American Wigeon - 11 8. American Black Duck - 12 9. Mallard - 235 10. Northern Shoveler - 8 11. Green-winged Teal - 30 12. Red-breasted Merganser - 6 13. Ruddy Duck - 4 14. Ring-necked Pheasant - 1 15. Pied-billed Grebe - 52 16. Double-crested Cormorant - 23 17. Great Blue Heron - 48 18. Great Egret - 78 19. Snowy Egret - 1 20. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 21. Turkey Vulture - 1 22. Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adult,1 immature) 23. Northern Harrier - 4 24. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 25. Cooper's Hawk - 5 26. Red-tailed Hawk - 9 27. Merlin - 1 28. Peregrine Falcon - 3 29. Sora - 1 30. American Coot - 152 31. Sandhill Crane - 2 32. Black-bellied Plover - 3 33. Semipalmated Plover - 2 34. Killdeer - 67 35. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 36. Greater Yellowlegs - 5 37. Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 38. Pectoral Sandpiper - 7 39. Dunlin - 64 40. Wilson's Snipe - 1 41. Ring-billed Gull - 80 42. Herring Gull - 2 43. Caspian Tern - 4 44. Mourning Dove - 65 45. Chimney Swift - 2 46. Belted Kingfisher - 5 47. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (immature) 48. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 49. Downy Woodpecker - 8 50. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 51. Northern Flicker - 8 52. Eastern Phoebe - 4 53. Blue Jay - 27 54. Horned Lark - 20 55. Tree Swallow - 1,939 56. Black-capped Chickadee - 12 57. Tufted Titmouse - 2 58. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 59. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 60. Brown Creeper - 3 61. Carolina Wren - 2 62. Winter Wren - 1 63. Sedge Wren - 1 64. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 14 65. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 7 66. Eastern Bluebird - 1 67. Veery - 1 68. Swainson's Thrush - 1 69. Hermit Thrush - 1 70. American Robin - 121 71. Gray Catbird - 5 72. European Starling - 4,396 73. Cedar Waxwing - 1 74. Common Yellowthroat - 1 75. Magnolia Warbler - 1 76. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 77. Blackpoll Warbler - 2 78. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 79. Palm Warbler - 4 80. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 127 81. American Tree Sparrow - 4 82. Chipping Sparrow - 3 83. Field Sparrow - 16 84. Savannah Sparrow - 23 85. LeConte's Sparrow - 1 (Ed Pierce & Douglas W. Vogus - prairie east of Stange Rd. observation deck) 86. Song Sparrow - 37 87. Lincoln's Sparrow - 4 88. Swamp Sparrow - 7 89. White-throated Sparrow - 128 90. White-crowned Sparrow - 47 91. Dark-eyed Junco - 13 92. Northern Cardinal - 11 93. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 94. Indigo Bunting - 3 95. Red-winged Blackbird - 8,390 96. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 97. Common Grackle - 1,924 98. Brown-headed Cowbird - 14 99. Purple Finch - 1 (female) 100. House Finch - 2 101. American Goldfinch - 35 102. House Sparrow - 23 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - many IV. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Buckeye - 1 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]