OCTOBER 04, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual east & west side routes in the morning; Afternoon coverage limited due to youth waterfowl huntingon the refuge; quick run through the back side & then census the perimeters of the refuge on the back side.TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm; 1:45pm-5:15pm TEMP.: 44-70-64 COND.: Overcast until 9:15am; then turning partly to mostlysunny until 11:15am; mostly cloudy from 11:15am on; winds E/NE at 5-10mph.OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda,Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. - Woodchuck - 2 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 - White-tailed Deer - 4 (doe) II. BIRDS: 106 SPECIES. - Canada Goose - 698 - Trumpeter Swan - 31 (8 immature) - Wood Duck - 38 - American Wigeon - 352 - American Black Duck - 8 - Mallard - 278 - Blue-winged Teal - 4 - Northern Shoveler - 7 - Green-winged Teal - 5 - Pied-billed Grebe - 26 - Double-crested Cormorant - 64 - Great Blue Heron - 128 - Great Egret - 100 - Snowy Egret - 2 - Turkey Vulture - 1 - Bald Eagle - 8 (2 adult,6 immature) - Northern Harrier - 3 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 5 - Sora - 1 - Common Gallinule - 3 - American Coot - 1 - Sandhill Crane - 4 - Semipalmated Plover - 4 - Killdeer - 31 - Greater Yellowlegs - 15 - Lesser Yellowlegs - 5 - Stilt Sandpiper - 2 - Dunlin - 5 - Baird's Sandpiper - 1 - Least Sandpiper - 3 - Pectoral Sandpiper - 5 - Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1 - Western Sandpiper - 2 - Long-billed Dowitcher - 5 - Wilson's Snipe - 5 - Bonaparte's Gull - 79 - Ring-billed Gull - 615 - Herring Gull - 10 - Caspian Tern - 2 - Common Tern - 22 - Forster's Tern - 1 - Mourning Dove - 54 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 - Great Horned Owl - 1 - Chimney Swift - 1 - Belted Kingfisher - 1 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 - Downy Woodpecker - 18 - Hairy Woodpecker - 2 - Northern Flicker - 25 - American Kestrel - 1 - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult) - Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 - Empidonax Flycatcher - 2 - Eastern Phoebe - 6 - White-eyed Vireo - 1 - Blue-headed Vireo - 5 - Red-eyed Vireo - 2 - Blue Jay - 47 - Horned Lark - 26 - Tree Swallow - 708 - Black-capped Chickadee - 6 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 11 - Brown Creeper - 1 - House Wren - 6 - Winter Wren - 2 - Marsh Wren - 3 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 39 - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 111 - Gray-cheeked Thrush - 2 - Swainson's Thrush - 14 - Hermit Thrush - 1 - American Robin - 80 - Gray Catbird - 8 - Brown Thrasher - 2 - European Starling - 308 - Cedar Waxwing - 18 - Tennessee Warbler - 2 - Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 - Nashville Warbler - 1 - Common Yellowthroat - 2 - American Redstart - 1 - Palm Warbler - 3 - Pine Warbler - 1 - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 82 - Eastern Towhee - 1 - Savannah Sparrow - 1 - Song Sparrow - 18 - Lincoln's Sparrow - 7 - Swamp Sparrow - 19 - White-throated Sparrow - 131 - White-crowned Sparrow - 27 - Dark-eyed Junco - 17 - Unidentified Sparrow - 8 (Adam Grimm Prairie & Stange Prairie - combined) - Northern Cardinal - 18 - Indigo Bunting - 1 - Bobolink - 9 (5 in Adam Grimm Prairie & 4 in Stange Prairie) - Red-winged Blackbird - 1,258 - Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie) - Rusty Blackbird - 5 - Common Grackle - 2,253 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 121 - American Goldfinch - 40 - House Sparrow - 22 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. - Midland Painted Turtle - 4 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. - Bullfrog - 1 - Northern Leopard Frog - 6 V. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES. - Cabbage Butterfly - 7 - Clouded Sulphur - 11 - Bronze Copper - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie) - Red Admiral - 2 - Buckeye - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie) - Viceroy - 1 - Monarch - 4 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]