On Monday, May 5, 2014 5:44 AM, DUG <[log in to unmask]> wrote: O On Monday, May 5, 2014 5:44 AM, DUG <[log in to unmask]> wrote: On Monday, May 5, 2014 5:39 AM, DUG <[log in to unmask]> wrote: MAY 04, 2014 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-1:15pm; 2:45pm-7:40pm TEMP.: 48-62 COND.: Clouds/sun mix turning mostly sunny; winds picking up after 11:00am - WNW 5-20mph; mostly cloudy by late afternoon. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, George Novosel, Lisa Phelps, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Mink - 1 3. Muskrat - 5 4. Eastern Cottontail - 3 5. White-tailed Deer - 2 II. BIRDS: 124 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 243 2. Trumpeter Swan - 38 (green neckband "M74"; yellow neckband "1A2") 3. Wood Duck - 23 4. Gadwall - 258 5. American Wigeon - 11 6. American Black Duck - 2 7. Mallard - 31 8. Blue-winged Teal - 95 9. Northern Shoveler - 22 10. Northern Pintail - 1 11. Green-winged Teal - 23 12. Ring-necked Duck - 2 13. Lesser Scaup - 4 14. Bufflehead - 2 15. Hooded Merganser - 5 16. Ruddy Duck - 45 17. Pied-billed Grebe - 23 18. Horned Grebe - 1 19. Double-crested Cormorant - 122 20. American Bittern - 4 21. Great Blue Heron - 73 22. Great Egret - 190 23. Snowy Egret - 15 24. Tricolored Heron - 1 25. Green Heron - 6 26. Turkey Vulture - 58 27. Bald Eagle - 9 (2 adult, 7 immature) 28. Northern Harrier - 1 29. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 4 30. Cooper's Hawk - 1 31. Red-tailed Hawk - 9 32. Sora - 17 33. Common Gallinule - 3 34. American Coot - 276 35. Sandhill Crane - 3 36. Black-bellied Plover - 1 37. Killdeer - 32 38. Spotted Sandpiper - 3 39. Solitary Sandpiper - 8 40. Greater Yellowlegs - 7 41. Willet - 4 42. Lesser Yellowlegs - 49 43. Upland Sandpiper - 2 44. Pectoral Sandpiper - 2 45. Dunlin - 125 46. Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 47. Wilson's Snipe - 1 48. Ring-billed Gull - 33 49. Herring Gull - 9 50. Caspian Tern - 5 51. Common Tern - 7 52. Forster's Tern - 2 53. Rock Pigeon - 1 54. Mourning Dove - 15 55. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 56. Great Horned Owl - 3 (2 downy young) 57. Chimney Swift - 4 58. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 59. Belted Kingfisher - 1 60. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 61. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 62. Downy Woodpecker - 7 63. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 64. Northern Flicker - 7 65. American Kestrel - 1 66. Least Flycatcher - 1 67. Eastern Phoebe - 4 68. Eastern Kingbird - 7 69. Blue-headed Vireo - 3 70. Warbling Vireo - 13 71. Philadelphia Vireo - 1 72. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 73. Blue Jay - 21 74. Horned Lark - 8 75. Purple Martin - 18 76. Tree Swallow - 226 77. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 78. Bank Swallow - 1 79. Cliff Swallow - 1 80. Barn Swallow - 16 81. Black-capped Chickadee - 3 82. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 83. Carolina Wren - 1 84. House Wren - 17 85. Marsh Wren - 1 86. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 10 87. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 88. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 89. Swainson's Thrush - 1 90. Hermit Thrush - 1 91. Wood Thrush - 1 92. American Robin - 51 93. Gray Catbird - 12 94. Brown Thrasher - 3 95. European Starling - 43 96. American Pipit - 3 97. Waterthrush species - 1 98. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 99. Prothonotary Warbler - 1 100. Common Yellowthroat - 12 101. Yellow Warbler - 124 102. Palm Warbler - 46 103. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 99 104. Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 105. Chipping Sparrow - 12 106. Field Sparrow - 3 107. Savannah Sparrow - 27 108. Song Sparrow - 25 109. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 110. Swamp Sparrow - 16 111. White-throated Sparrow - 55 112. White-crowned Sparrow - 101 113. Northern Cardinal - 27 114. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 115. Bobolink - 9 116. Red-winged Blackbird - 929 117. Eastern Meadowlark - 2 118. Rusty Blackbird - 6 119. Common Grackle - 110 120. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 121. Baltimore Oriole - 8 122. House Finch - 1 123. American Goldfinch - 16 124. House Sparrow - 124 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Water Snake - 3 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Leopard Frog - 2 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - yes 2. Creek Chub - many VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 3 2. Clouded Sulphur - 2 3. Red Admiral - 1 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]