MAY 01, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am-12:40pm; 2:40pm-6:20pmTEMP.: 53-60-58 COND.: Cool and very foggy until 11:15pm; overcast, winds N/NE at 5-10mph; cloudy then fog again late afternoon; fields flooded from overnight rains; high water due to north winds and rain. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Debbie Hurlvert-Minard, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Chris Stirling (morning only), Tony Szilagye (morning only), Bob Tenhollow (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. - Mink - 2 - Woodchuck - 2 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Muskrat - 12 - Eastern Cottontail - 17 - White-tailed Deer - 6 II. BIRDS: 114 SPECIES. - Canada Goose - 616 - Trumpeter Swan - 24 (yellow neckband "1A2" & yellow neckband "3A8") - Wood Duck - 37 - Gadwall - 26 - American Wigeon - 3 - Mallard - 71 - Blue-winged Teal - 20 - Northern Shoveler - 12 - Northern Pintail - 5 - Green-winged Teal - 70 - Ring-necked Duck - 1 - Lesser Scaup - 3 - Hooded Merganser - 4 - Ruddy Duck - 2 - Common Loon - 1 - Pied-billed Grebe - 18 - Double-crested Cormorant - 96 - American Bittern - 1 - Great Blue Heron - 88 - Great Egret - 145 - Snowy Egret - 3 - Bald Eagle - 15 (6 adult,9 immature - 1 adult caught a young gosling) - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 4 - Sora - 21 - Common Gallinule - 2 - American Coot - 104 - Sandhill Crane - 3 - Killdeer - 27 - Greater Yellowlegs - 11 - Lesser Yellowlegs - 37 - Solitary Sandpiper - 3 - Spotted Sandpiper - 5 - Pectoral Sandpiper - 4 - Dunlin - 150 - Wilson's Snipe - 5 - Bonaparte's Gull - 4 - Ring-billed Gull - 6 - Herring Gull - 10 - Caspian Tern - 18 - Common Tern - 9 - Mourning Dove - 14 - Chimney Swift - 1 - Belted Kingfisher - 1 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 - Downy Woodpecker - 32 - Hairy Woodpecker - 2 - Northern Flicker - 25 - American Kestrel - 2 - Least Flycatcher - 1 - Eastern Phoebe - 3 - Eastern Kingbird - 3 - White-eyed Vireo - 1 - Blue-headed Vireo - 3 - Warbling Vireo - 11 - Blue Jay - 57 - Horned Lark - 3 - Purple Martin - 25 - Tree Swallow - 384 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 6 - Bank Swallow - 1 - Cliff Swallow - 2 - Barn Swallow - 75 - Black-capped Chickadee - 3 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 - House Wren - 14 - Winter Wren - 1 - Marsh Wren - 4 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 14 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 13 - Swainson's Thrush - 2 - Hermit Thrush - 7 - Wood Thrush - 2 - American Robin - 83 - Gray Catbird - 22 - Brown Thrasher - 12 - European Starling - 66 - American Pipit - 6 (along Krause Rd.) - Northern Waterthrush - 9 - Blue-winged Warbler - 2 - Black-and-white Warbler - 1 - Prothonotary Warbler - 3 - Nashville Warbler - 6 - Common Yellowthroat - 12 - Yellow Warbler - 126 - Palm Warbler - 72 - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 104 - Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 - Eastern Towhee - 3 - American Tree Sparrow - 2 - Chipping Sparrow - 10 - Field Sparrow - 4 - Savannah Sparrow - 4 - Henslow's Sparrow - 2 (Adam Grimm Prairie) - Song Sparrow - 76 - Swamp Sparrow - 13 - White-throated Sparrow - 78 - White-crowned Sparrow - 21 - Dark-eyed Junco - 1 - Northern Cardinal - 36 - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 - Indigo Bunting - 1 - Red-winged Blackbird - 1,237 - Eastern Meadowlark - 2 - Rusty Blackbird - 33 - Common Grackle - 158 (1 eating a Northern Brown Snake) - Brown-headed Cowbird - 19 - Baltimore Oriole - 2 - House Finch - 3 - American Goldfinch - 8 - House Sparrow - 4 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. - Northern Water Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. - Bullfrog - many - Northern Leopard Frog - many V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. - Common Carp - yes! 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]