MAY 03, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed due to eagle nesting.TIME: 8:00am-7:00pm TEMP.: 64-79-75 COND.: Sunny & warm; winds light from SW.OBS.: Linda Benner, Katie Clink, Michael Clink (afternoon only), Claire Johnson (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Fern Overbaugh (afternoon only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Patty Shepard (afternoon only) & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. - Woodchuck - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 - Muskrat - 12 - Eastern Cottontail - 1 - White-tailed Deer - 2 II. BIRDS: 131 SPECIES. - Canada Goose - 346 - Trumpeter Swan - 22 - Wood Duck - 29 - Gadwall - 25 - American Wigeon - 9 - American Black Duck - 1 - Mallard - 93 - Blue-winged Teal - 22 - Northern Shoveler - 12 - Northern Pintail - 2 - Green-winged Teal - 4 - Ring-necked Duck - 2 - Lesser Scaup - 10 - Bufflehead - 1 (f) - Hooded Merganser - 10 - Red-breasted Merganser - 2 (1m,1f) - Ruddy Duck - 56 - Pied-billed Grebe - 14 - Double-crested Cormorant - 23 - American Bittern - 1 - Least Bittern - 1 - Great Blue Heron - 41 - Great Egret - 56 - Snowy Egret - 2 - Green Heron - 7 - Black-crowned Night-Heron - 8 - Turkey Vulture - 18 - Bald Eagle - 11 (8 adult, 3 immature) - Northern Harrier - 2 (f/imm.) - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 5 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 - Broad-winged Hawk - 3 - Red-tailed Hawk - 5 - Virginia Rail - 2 - Sora - 9 - Common Gallinule - 5 - American Coot - 95 - Sandhill Crane - 3 - American Golden-Plover - 51 - Semipalmated Plover - 2 - Killdeer - 34 - Spotted Sandpiper - 2 - Solitary Sandpiper - 7 - Greater Yellowlegs - 9 - Lesser Yellowlegs - 25 - Least Sandpiper - 2 - Pectoral Sandpiper - 19 - Dunlin - 47 - Wilson's Snipe - 4 - Bonaparte's Gull - 3 - Ring-billed Gull - 72 - Herring Gull - 11 - Caspian Tern - 2 - Common Tern - 65 - Forster's Tern - 4 - Rock Pigeon - 1 - Mourning Dove - 11 - Great Horned Owl - 2 - Chimney Swift - 1 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 - Belted Kingfisher - 1 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 - Downy Woodpecker - 8 - Northern Flicker - 13 - Least Flycatcher - 1 - Eastern Phoebe - 1 - Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 - Eastern Kingbird - 1 - White-eyed Vireo - 2 - Blue-headed Vireo - 2 - Warbling Vireo - 29 - Red-eyed Vireo - 1 - Blue Jay - 2,802 - Horned Lark - 1 - Purple Martin - 17 - Tree Swallow - 230 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 - Bank Swallow - 1 - Cliff Swallow - 2 - Barn Swallow - 49 - Black-capped Chickadee - 8 - Tufted Titmouse - 2 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 - House Wren - 9 - Marsh Wren - 13 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 32 - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12 - Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 - Hermit Thrush - 6 - Wood Thrush - 1 - American Robin - 60 - Gray Catbird - 14 - Northern Mockingbird - 1 - Brown Thrasher - 4 - European Starling - 48 - Ovenbird - 1 - Northern Waterthrush - 2 - Prothonotary Warbler - 2 - Nashville Warbler - 3 - Common Yellowthroat - 4 - American Redstart - 2 - Magnolia Warbler - 2 - Blackburnian Warbler - 1 - Yellow Warbler - 107 - Blackpoll Warbler - 1 - Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 - Palm Warbler - 79 - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 125 - Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 - Canada Warbler - 1 - Chipping Sparrow - 8 - Field Sparrow - 6 - Savannah Sparrow - 2 - Song Sparrow - 37 - Swamp Sparrow - 26 - White-throated Sparrow - 169 - White-crowned Sparrow - 35 - Dark-eyed Junco - 2 - Scarlet Tanager - 1 - Northern Cardinal - 52 - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 - Red-winged Blackbird - 508 - Eastern Meadowlark - 1 - Common Grackle - 153 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 30 - Orchard Oriole - 1 - Baltimore Oriole - 3 - Purple Finch - 1 (f) - House Finch - 1 - American Goldfinch - 32 - House Sparrow - 5 REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. - Map Turtle - 32 - Midland Painted Turtle - 7 - Northern Water Snake - 11 - Eastern Garter Snake - 2 AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. - Northern Leopard Frog - many FISHES: 1 SPECIES. - Common Carp - too many BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES. - Cabbage Butterfly - Clouded Sulphur - Mourning Cloak - Red Admiral 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]