AUGUST 06, 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.) TIME: 8:00am - 12:20pm; 2:10pm - 5:50pm TEMP.: 67 ~ 81 ~ 77 COND.: Mostly cloudy, changing to a clouds/sun mix; winds 5mph from SW; warming, then turning mostly cloudy in the afternoon, winds S/SE at 5-10mph. OBS. EAST: Katie Clink, Jim Koppen, Ed Pierce. OBS. WEST: Peter Keefe, Jennifer Keuhn, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Jim Koppen, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 34 2. Woodchuck - 2 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 8 4. American Beaver - 1 (First August Record on Census) 5. Common Muskrat - 6 6. Common Raccoon - 2 7. Mink - 1 8. White-tailed Deer - 4 (3 doe,1 fawn) II. BIRDS: 98 SPECIES, 5,007 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Canada Goose - 273 2. Trumpeter Swan - 93 (neckbands: "0A0" - yellow & "3A8" - yellow) 3. Wood Duck - 137 4. Mallard - 51 5. Pied-billed Grebe - 31 6. Mourning Dove - 25 7. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 6 8. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 9. Chimney Swift - 3 10. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 11. Common Gallinule - 16 (4 adults,3 juveniles,9 chicks) 12. Sandhill Crane - 1 13. Semipalmated Plover - 7 14. Killdeer - 52 15. Dunlin - 4 16. Least Sandpiper - 6 17. Pectoral Sandpiper - 5 18. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 8 19. Short-billed Dowitcher - 3 20. Wilson's Snipe - 1 21. Spotted Sandpiper - 6 22. Greater Yellowlegs - 9 23. Lesser Yellowlegs - 29 24. Wilson's Phalarope - 1 25. Ring-billed Gull - 112 26. Herring Gull - 1 27. Caspian Tern - 38 28. Common Tern - 3 29. Double-crested Cormorant - 38 30. Least Bittern - 2 31. Great Blue Heron - 126 32. Great Egret - 235 33. Snowy Egret - 3 34. Green Heron - 25 35. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 5 36. Osprey - 3 37. Bald Eagle - 4 (3 adult,1 immature) 38. Northern Harrier - 2 (1 male,1 female) 39. Cooper's Hawk - 3 40. Red-tailed Hawk - 16 41. Great Horned Owl - 1 42. Belted Kingfisher - 5 43. Red-headed Woodpecker - 4 44. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 45. Downy Woodpecker - 21 46. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 47. Northern Flicker - 38 48. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 8 49. Willow Flycatcher - 6 50. Least Flycatcher - 3 51. Eastern Phoebe - 26 52. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 53. Eastern Kingbird - 33 54. Warbling Vireo - 8 55. Red-eyed Vireo - 2 56. Blue Jay - 31 57. American Crow - 4 58. Horned Lark - 3 59. Purple Martin - 137 60. Tree Swallow - 524 61. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3 62. Bank Swallow - 31 63. Barn Swallow - 191 64. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 65. Tufted Titmouse - 2 66. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 67. House Wren - 29 68. Marsh Wren - 27 69. Carolina Wren - 1 70. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 71. Eastern Bluebird - 2 72. American Robin - 204 73. Gray Catbird - 62 74. Brown Thrasher - 1 75. European Starling - 646 76. Cedar Waxwing - 66 77. House Sparrow - 27 78. House Finch - 5 79. American Goldfinch - 48 80. Northern Waterthrush - 1 81. Prothonotary Warbler - 1 82. Common Yellowthroat - 42 83. Yellow Warbler - 62 84. Eastern Towhee - 1 85. Chipping Sparrow - 11 86. Field Sparrow - 12 87. Savannah Sparrow - 1 88. Song Sparrow - 85 89. Swamp Sparrow - 16 90. Northern Cardinal - 40 91. Indigo Bunting - 43 92. Dickcissel - 6 93. Bobolink - 3 94. Red-winged Blackbird - 941 95. Common Grackle - 74 96. Brown-headed Cowbird - 19 97. Orchard Oriole - 3 98. Baltimore Oriole - 26 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 10 2. Northern Water Snake - 1 Unknown snake - 1 (being eaten by a Great Egret) IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 3 2. Green Frog - 3 V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Bowfin - 1 2. Common Carp - 2 3. Largemouth Bass - 1 4. Bluegill - 30 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 9 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 3 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 10 3. Clouded Sulphur - 12 4. Orange Sulphur - 1 5. Red Admiral - 1 6. Common Buckeye - 1 7. Viceroy - 4 8. Monarch - 27 9. Silver-spotted 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]