JULY 02, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: Same usual morning and afternoon routes (east and west sides in the morning and backside in the afternoon), except where closed for eagle nesting. TIME: 8:00am - 12:35pm; 2:05pm - 5:30pm TEMP.: 71 ~ 84 ~ 82 COND.: Sunny and warm; winds west at 5-10mph. OBS. EAST: Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Katie Clink, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Michael O'Brien, Ed Pierce, Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 17 2. Woodchuck - 2 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 4. Common Muskrat - 2 5. Common Raccoon - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 2 II. BIRDS: 78 SPECIES, 4,020 INDIVIDUALS. 1. Canada Goose - 304 2. Trumpeter Swan - 105 (6 young; Adults with neckbands: "74M - green" and "1A2 - yellow" - these two parent birds had 3 of the young) 3. Wood Duck - 39 4. Mallard - 13 5. Hooded Merganser - 1 (female) 6. Pied-billed Grebe - 8 (3 young) 7. Mourning Dove - 37 8. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 9. Chimney Swift - 6 10. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 11. Common Gallinule - 1 12. Sandhill Crane - 12 (2 young) (First July Record on Census) 13. Killdeer - 34 14. Spotted Sandpiper - 4 15. Ring-billed Gull - 146 16. Herring Gull - 1 17. Caspian Tern - 5 18. Common Tern - 27 19. Double-crested Cormorant - 14 20. Great Blue Heron - 134 21. Great Egret - 243 22. Snowy Egret - 21 23. Green Heron - 3 24. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 14 25. Turkey Vulture - 4 26. Bald Eagle - 5 (3 adult,2 immature) 27. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 28. Great Horned Owl - 1 29. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (adult) 30. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 31. Downy Woodpecker - 23 32. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 33. Northern Flicker - 14 34. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6 35. Willow Flycatcher - 6 36. Eastern Phoebe - 8 37. Great Crested Flycatcher - 8 38. Eastern Kingbird - 45 (1 nest with 2 young) 39. Warbling Vireo - 33 40. Red-eyed Vireo - 6 41. Blue Jay - 29 42. Horned Lark - 14 43. Purple Martin - 330 (includes results from Purple Martin bird-banding) 44. Tree Swallow - 506 45. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3 46. Cliff Swallow - 18 47. Barn Swallow - 58 48. Black-capped Chickadee - 4 49. Tufted Titmouse - 1 50. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 51. House Wren - 49 52. Marsh Wren - 28 53. Carolina Wren - 1 54. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 55. American Robin - 48 56. Gray Catbird - 54 57. Brown Thrasher - 7 58. European Starling - 249 59. Cedar Waxwing - 12 60. House Sparrow - 11 61. House Finch - 5 62. American Goldfinch - 45 63. Prothonotary Warbler - 4 64. Common Yellowthroat - 46 65. Yellow Warbler - 162 66. Chipping Sparrow - 10 67. Field Sparrow - 9 68. Song Sparrow - 95 69. Swamp Sparrow - 14 70. Northern Cardinal - 31 71. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 72. Indigo Bunting - 20 73. Dickcissel - 27 74. Red-winged Blackbird - 681 75. Common Grackle - 46 76. Brown-headed Cowbird - 10 77. Orchard Oriole - 3 78. Baltimore Oriole - 30 III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Red-eared Turtle - 1 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 15 4. Blanding's Turtle - 1 5. Northern Water Snake - 7 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - many 2. Green Frog - many 3. Northern Leopard Frog - many V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - many 2. Creek Chub - 6 3. Largemouth Bass - many 4. Bluegill - 4 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 11 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 3. Cabbage Butterfly - 73 4. Clouded Sulphur - 17 5. Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1 6. Summer Azure - 2 7. Red Admiral - 10 8. American Painted Lady - 2 9. Painted Lady - 1 10. Viceroy - 2 11. 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]