JUNE 04, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: Usual morning and afternoon routes (east and west sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon), except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am - 12:20pm; 1:50pm - 6:45am TEMP.: 56 ~ 79 ~ 76 COND.: Cloudy and gray; light sprinkles starting at 8:25am, changing to steady rain until 8:50am; rain stopped briefly, front continuing from the west with more rain from 9:00am - 9:30am; rain ending, mostly cloudy turning to clouds/sun mix and warm and breezy. OBS. EAST: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Mike Edgington, Jennifer Keuhn, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Sharon Newell, Douglas W. Vogus, Janet Wertz. OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 13 2. Woodchuck - 2 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 9 4. Common Muskrat - 4 5. Common Raccoon - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 4 (1 buck,3 doe) II. BIRDS: 86 SPECIES, 4,076 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Canada Goose - 583 2. Mute Swan - 1 3. Trumpeter Swan - 165 (23 cygnets; adults with neckbands: "1AO - yellow" & "1A2 - yellow") 4. Wood Duck - 166 5. Gadwall - 2 6. Mallard - 139 7. Blue-winged Teal - 4 8. Hooded Merganser - 2 (females) 9. Ruddy Duck - 3 10. Pied-billed Grebe - 17 11. Mourning Dove - 20 12. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 5 13. Chimney Swift - 4 14. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 15. Virginia Rail - 1 16. Common Gallinule - 3 17. Sandhill Crane - 13 (2 adults with 2 colts in Stange Prairie) 18. Killdeer - 26 19. Wilson's Snipe - 1 20. Spotted Sandpiper - 10 21. Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 (in MS2 on the back side) 22. Ring-billed Gull - 39 23. Herring Gull - 3 24. Double-crested Cormorant - 57 25. American Bittern - 1 (calling from the large phragmite stand in MS 8b) 26. Great Blue Heron - 126 27. Great Egret - 173 28. Snowy Egret - 8 29. Green Heron - 11 30. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 19 31. Turkey Vulture - 9 32. Bald Eagle - 10 (3 adult,4 immature,3 juveniles in nests) 33. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 34. Great Horned Owl - 3 (1 immature) 35. Belted Kingfisher - 2 36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 37. Downy Woodpecker - 10 38. Northern Flicker - 7 39. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5 40. Willow Flycatcher - 27 41. Eastern Phoebe - 13 42. Great Crested Flycatcher - 7 43. Eastern Kingbird - 20 44. Warbling Vireo - 43 45. Red-eyed Vireo - 2 46. Blue Jay - 18 47. Horned Lark - 8 48. Purple Martin - 57 49. Tree Swallow - 526 50. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 51. Bank Swallow - 1 52. Cliff Swallow - 88 (44 nests; 1 leucistic bird photographed by D.W. Vogus) 53. Barn Swallow - 63 54. Black-capped Chickadee - 4 55. Tufted Titmouse - 2 56. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 57. House Wren - 34 58. Marsh Wren - 26 59. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 60. Eastern Bluebird - 1 61. Wood Thrush - 1 62. American Robin - 40 63. Gray Catbird - 44 64. Brown Thrasher - 3 65. European Starling - 140 66. Cedar Waxwing - 9 67. House Sparrow - 16 68. House Finch - 4 69. American Goldfinch - 20 70. Prothonotary Warbler - 6 71. Common Yellowthroat - 57 72. Yellow Warbler - 236 73. Wilson's Warbler - 1 74. Chipping Sparrow - 5 75. Field Sparrow - 9 76. Savannah Sparrow - 2 77. Song Sparrow - 137 78. Swamp Sparrow - 8 79. Northern Cardinal - 5 80. Indigo Bunting - 7 81. Dickcissel - 2 (males in Adam Grimm Prairie) 82. Red-winged Blackbird - 625 83. Common Grackle - 74 84. Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 85. Orchard Oriole - 1 86. Baltimore Oriole - 19 III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 11 2. Map Turtle - 2 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 8 4. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1 5. Northern Water Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - many 2. Green Frog - many 3. Northern Leopard Frog - many V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - yes! VI. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 3 2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 3. Cabbage Butterfly - 26 4. Viceroy - 2 5. Monarch - 1 6. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2 7. Least Skipper - 1 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]