(NOTE: This is a late post due to the fact that I was out of state.) SEPTEMBER 01, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes. TIME: 8:00am-12:45pm; 1:45pm-6:10pm TEMP.: 64-78 COND.: Partly cloudy, wind NE at 5-15mph; wind eliminated any mudflats off lake. GROUP I: 5 Observers; GROUP II: 5 Observers. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Michael O'Brien (morning only), Lisa Phelps, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. & Michelle Vogus (morning only). I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 1 2. White-tailed Deer - 1 II. BIRDS: 82 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 231 2. Trumpeter Swan - 36 3. Wood Duck - 198 4. American Wigeon - 1 5. Mallard - 67 6. Northern Shoveler - 5 7. Green-winged Teal - 5 8. Pied-billed Grebe - 22 9. Double-crested Cormorant - 29 10. Great Blue Heron - 68 11. Great Egret - 140 12. Snowy Egret - 4 13. Green Heron - 3 14. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 6 15. Turkey Vulture - 6 16. Osprey - 1 17. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature) 18. Northern Harrier - 2 19. Cooper's Hawk - 2 20. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 21. Sora - 2 22. Common Gallinule - 4 23. Killdeer - 3 24. Lesser Yellowlegs - 4 25. Spotted Sandpiper - 6 26. Wilson's Snipe - 2 27. Bonaparte's Gull - 19 28. Ring-billed Gull - 280 29. Herring Gull - 19 30. Caspian Tern - 18 31. Common Tern - 1 32. Mourning Dove - 106 33. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 34. Great Horned Owl - 2 35. Chimney Swift - 4 36. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 37. Belted Kingfisher - 8 38. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 39. Downy Woodpecker - 9 40. Northern Flicker - 10 41. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13 42. Willow Flycatcher - 3 43. Eastern Phoebe - 9 44. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 45. Eastern Kingbird - 12 46. Warbling Vireo - 7 47. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 48. Blue Jay - 12 49. Horned Lark - 5 50. Purple Martin - 15 51. Tree Swallow - 31 52. Barn Swallow - 7 53. Black-capped Chickadee - 9 54. Tufted Titmouse - 1 55. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 56. Carolina Wren - 2 57. House Wren - 2 58. Marsh Wren - 4 59. American Robin - 57 60. Gray Catbird - 35 61. Brown Thrasher - 3 62. European Starling - 229 63. Cedar Waxwing - 58 64. Northern Waterthrush - 2 65. Common Yellowthroat - 11 66. Magnolia Warbler - 1 67. Yellow Warbler - 2 68. Canada Warbler - 2 69. Chipping Sparrow - 4 70. Field Sparrow - 2 71. Song Sparrow - 17 72. Swamp Sparrow - 7 73. Northern Cardinal - 33 74. Indigo Bunting - 6 75. Bobolink - 5 76. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,504 77. Common Grackle - 118 78. Brown-headed Cowbird - 104 79. Baltimore Oriole - 9 80. House Finch - 8 81. American Goldfinch - 57 82. House Sparrow - 9 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Water Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Leopard Frog - 2 V. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 13 3. Clouded Sulphur - 5 4. Bronze Copper - 4 5. Summer Azure - 2 6. Buckeye - 1 7. Viceroy - 1 8. 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]