JUNE 05, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes - except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am~12:20pm; 1:45pm~6:20pm.TEMP.: 56~77~73 COND.: Overcast until 9:00am, turning mostly cloudy until 9:45am, then changing to partly sunny; winds W/SW at5-10mph; stormfront coming from the SW after lunch, winds gusting to 25mph; brief downpour from 2:50pm~2:55pm; overcast & cooler.OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Debbie Hurlvert-Minard, Donna Kuhn (morning only), Jon Minard, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only),Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus & Janet Wertz. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. - Raccoon - 5 - Mink - 1 - Woodchuck - 2 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 - Muskrat - 3 - Eastern Cottontail - 1 - White-tailed Deer - 5 II. BIRDS: 77 SPECIES. - Canada Goose - 199 - Trumpeter Swan - 57 (14 young) - Wood Duck - 87 - American Black Duck - 3 - Mallard - 156 - Hooded Merganser - 2 - Pied-billed Grebe - 17 - Double-crested Cormorant - 62 - Great Blue Heron - 121 - Great Egret - 249 - Snowy Egret - 11 - Green Heron - 1 - Black-crowned Night-Heron - 11 - Turkey Vulture - 11 - Osprey - 1 - Bald Eagle - 16 (5 adult,11 immature) - Red-tailed Hawk - 5 - American Coot - 2 - Sandhill Crane - 4 - KIlldeer - 27 - Spotted Sandpiper - 3 - Dunlin - 1 - American Woodcock - 1 - Ring-billed Gull - 56 - Herring Gull - 9 - Mourning Dove - 10 - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4 - Great Horned Owl - 1 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 - Downy Woodpecker - 5 - Northern Flicker - 10 - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 - Acadian Flycatcher - 1 - Willow Flycatcher - 21 - Eastern Phoebe - 5 - Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 - Eastern Kingbird - 24 - Warbling Vireo - 20 - Red-eyed Vireo - 5 - Blue Jay - 14 - Horned Lark - 6 - Purple Martin - 39 - Tree Swallow - 196 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 - Bank Swallow - 1 - Cliff Swallow - 45 - Barn Swallow - 44 - Black-capped Chickadee - 4 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 - House Wren - 20 - Marsh Wren - 10 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 - American Robin - 50 - Gray Catbird - 20 - Brown Thrasher - 6 - European Starling - 108 - Cedar Waxwing - 9 - Prothonotary Warbler - 4 - Common Yellowthroat - 23 - American Redstart - 4 - Yellow Warbler - 109 - Chipping Sparrow - 5 - Field Sparrow - 6 - Henslow's Sparrow - 1 - Song Sparrow - 36 - Swamp Sparrow - 5 - Northern Cardinal - 14 - Indigo Bunting - 11 - Red-winged Blackbird - 535 - Eastern Meadowlark - 2 - Common Grackle - 87 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 13 - Orchard Oriole - 3 - Baltimore Oriole - 17 - American Goldfinch - 9 - House Sparrow - 20 III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES. - Common Snapping Turtle - 1 - Map Turtle - 5 - Midland Painted Turtle - 5 - Northern Water Snake - 5 - Eastern Garter Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. - Bullfrog - many - Green Frog - 4 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. - Common Carp - why, yes! VI. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES. - Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2 - Cabbage Butterfly - 1 - Clouded Sulphur - 1 - Pearl Crescent - 2 - Red-spotted Purple - 2 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]