OCTOBER 02, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Limited coverage in the morning on the east side & west side due to Youth Waterfowl Hunting. Had to leave backside of refuge at 4:30pm due to Youth Waterfowl Hunting as well. Most of normal areas covered, though not as thorough due to time restraints.TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-4:35pm TEMP.: 55~74~71 COND.: Cloudy/overcast early with brief 20 minute shower; turning partly sunny and warmer; wind from west at 5-10mph. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Nicole King (morning only), Jim Koppin (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Tony Szilagye (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. - Common Raccoon - 1 - Woodchuck - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 - Eastern Cottontail - 2 - White-tailed Deer - 2 (1 doe,1 yearling) II. BIRDS: 105 SPECIES (order follows Ottawa NWR Bird Checklist). - Canada Goose - 409 - Trumpeter Swan - 50 (green band "74M" & yellow band "1A2") - Wood Duck - 73 - Gadwall - 216 - American Wigeon - 12 - American Black Duck - 14 - Mallard - 191 - Blue-winged Teal - 2 - Northern Shoveler - 14 - Northern Pintail - 15 - Green-winged Teal - 40 - Hooded Merganser - 1 - Pied-billed Grebe - 23 - American White Pelican - 24 - Double-crested Cormorant - 31 - Great Blue Heron - 78 - Great Egret - 166 - Snowy Egret - 12 - Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 - Turkey Vulture - 4 - Bald Eagle - 6 (4 adult,2 immature) - Northern Harrier - 4 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 12 - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature female over Stange Prairie) - Sora - 1 - American Coot - 51 - Sandhill Crane - 8 - Killdeer - 23 - Greater Yellowlegs - 5 - Lesser Yellowlegs - 6 - Dunlin - 8 - Ring-billed Gull - 151 - Herring Gull - 7 - Caspian Tern - 1 - Mourning Dove - 122 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 - Chimney Swift - 2 - Red-headed Woodpecker - 5 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 - Downy Woodpecker - 19 - Hairy Woodpecker - 1 - Northern Flicker - 39 - Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 (Dave Myles) - Willow Flycatcher - 1 (Jim Reyda) - Eastern Phoebe - 11 - Philadelphia Vireo - 3 - Red-eyed Vireo - 4 - Blue Jay - 61 - Horned Lark - 2 - Tree Swallow - 1,086 - Barn Swallow - 1 - Black-capped Chickadee - 11 - Tufted Titmouse - 1 - Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 - Brown Creeper - 2 - House Wren - 3 - Winter Wren - 2 - Marsh Wren - 1 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 23 - Swainson's Thrush - 16 - American Robin - 54 - Gray Catbird - 32 - Brown Thrasher - 3 - European Starling - 2,828 - Cedar Waxwing - 1 - Tennessee Warbler - 2 - Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 - Nashville Warbler - 1 - Northern Parula - 1 - Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 - Magnolia Warbler - 12 - Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 27 - Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 - Pine Warbler - 2 - Palm Warbler - 1 - Blackpoll Warbler - 20 - Black-and-white Warbler - 2 - American Redstart - 4 - Ovenbird - 1 - Northern Waterthrush - 2 - Common Yellowthroat - 6 - Wilson's Warbler - 1 - Chipping Sparrow - 4 - Field Sparrow - 6 - Savannah Sparrow - 8 - Song Sparrow - 21 - Lincoln's Sparrow - 8 - Swamp Sparrow - 2 - White-throated Sparrow - 5 - Harris's Sparrow - 1 (at Black Swamp Bird Observatory's feeder) - White-crowned Sparrow - 9 - Northern Cardinal - 13 - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 - Indigo Bunting - 6 - Red-winged Blackbird - 1,728 - Eastern Meadowlark - 7 - Common Grackle - 36 - House Finch - 4 - American Goldfinch - 125 - House Sparrow - 78 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. - Common Snapping Turtle - 1 - Midland Painted Turtle - 6 - Eastern Garter Snake - 1 (Stange Prairie) IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. - Green Frog - 1 - Northern Leopard Frog - 2 V. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES. - Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 - Cabbage Butterfly - 7 - Clouded Sulphur - 85+ (Stange Prairie was filled with them) - Bronze Copper - 1 - Pearl Crescent - 1 - Buckeye - 6 - Monarch - 3 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]