*MAY 06, 2018 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.* *ROUTES*: Usual morning & afternoon routes (east and west sides in the morning - back side in the afternoon), except where closed for eagle nesting. Also a stop at the Ottawa NWR Boss Unit. *TIME*: 8:00am - 12:30pm; 2:00pm - 7:40pm *TEMP.*: 52 ~ 77 ~ 66 *COND.*: Sunny and clear early, warming throughout the day; west winds at 5mph; around 3:15pm a coldfront moved in from the west, turning cloudy, then dark with lightning, winds W/NW at 10-15mph, and a thunderstorm, lasting until about 4:30pm; much cooler and cloudy after that. *OBS. EAST*: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. *OBS. WEST*: Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus. *OBS. AFTERNOON*: Bob Bartolotta, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. *I. MAMMALS*: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 11 2. Woodchuck - 4 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 8 4. Common Muskrat - 12 5. Common Raccoon - 4 *II. BIRDS*: 128 SPECIES, 4,141 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Canada Goose - 335 2. Trumpeter Swan - 53 3. Wood Duck - 20 4. Gadwall - 16 5. Mallard - 32 6. Blue-winged Teal - 2 7. Green-winged Teal - 4 8. Redhead - 1 9. Lesser Scaup - 2 (both males) 10. Hooded Merganser - 2 11. Ruddy Duck - 4 12. Pied-billed Grebe - 9 13. Mourning Dove - 12 14. Chimney Swift - 2 15. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 16. Virginia Rail - 3 17. Sora - 11 18. Common Gallinule - 6 19. American Coot - 124 20. Sandhill Crane - 8 21. Black-necked Stilt - 1 (first seen by D. Vogus flying over Stange Rd., later re-found in flooded impoundment east of Stange Prairie - Second Record on Census) 22. Black-bellied Plover - 8 (flooded field across from the Boss Unit) 23. American Golden-Plover - 240 (flooded field across from the Boss Unit) 24. Killdeer - 25 25. Dunlin - 4 (one fly-over at Adam Grimm Prairie & 3 in flooded field across from the Boss Unit) 26. Least Sandpiper - 3 (flooded field along Krause Rd.) 27. Pectoral Sandpiper - 4 (flooded field across from the Boss Unit) 28. Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 (flooded field across from the Boss Unit) 29. Spotted Sandpiper - 4 (one found by D. Vogus along Crane Creek at Rt. 2 with a piece of fishing line and a hook hanging from its neck) 30. Solitary Sandpiper - 5 31. Lesser Yellowlegs - 16 32. Ring-billed Gull - 4 33. Herring Gull - 6 34. Caspian Tern - 5 35. Common Tern - 25 36. Double-crested Cormorant - 35 37. American White Pelican - 9 38. Great Blue Heron - 53 39. Great Egret - 101 40. Snowy Egret - 3 41. Green Heron - 7 42. Turkey Vulture - 29 43. Bald Eagle - 15 (10 adult,4 immature, 1 chick in nest) 44. Northern Harrier - 2 45. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 46. Cooper's Hawk - 3 47. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 48. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 49. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph) 50. Great Horned Owl - 1 (down-covered young) 51. Belted Kingfisher - 1 52. Red-headed Woodpecker - 4 53. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13 54. Downy Woodpecker - 10 55. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 56. Northern Flicker - 15 57. American Kestrel - 1 58. Willow Flycatcher - 1 (also: 1 Unidentified *Empidonax* Flycatcher) 59. Least Flycatcher - 1 60. Eastern Phoebe - 5 61. Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 62. Eastern Kingbird - 12 63. White-eyed Vireo - 1 64. Blue-headed Vireo - 1 65. Warbling Vireo - 19 66. Red-eyed Vireo - 2 67. Blue Jay - 88 68. Horned Lark - 11 69. Purple Martin - 86 70. Tree Swallow - 449 71. Cliff Swallow - 1 72. Barn Swallow - 36 73. Black-capped Chickadee - 3 74. Tufted Titmouse - 2 75. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 76. House Wren - 33 77. Marsh Wren - 2 78. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 6 79. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 6 80. Eastern Bluebird - 5 81. Veery - 1 82. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 2 83. Swainson's Thrush - 12 84. Hermit Thrush - 1 85. Wood Thrush - 2 86. American Robin - 47 87. Gray Catbird - 60 88. Brown Thrasher - 8 89. European Starling - 56 90. House Sparrow - 6 91. House Finch - 4 92. American Goldfinch - 23 93. Ovenbird - 1 94. Northern Waterthrush - 9 95. Black-and-white Warbler - 3 96. Prothonotary Warbler - 7 97. Tennessee Warbler - 2 98. Orange-crowned Warbler - 2 99. Nashville Warbler - 27 100. Common Yellowthroat - 26 101. American Redstart - 1 102. Cape May Warbler - 1 103. Northern Parula - 4 104. Magnolia Warbler - 5 105. Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 106. Blackburnian Warbler - 1 107. Yellow Warbler - 336 108. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 5 109. Blackpoll Warbler - 12 110. Palm Warbler - 44 111. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 109 112. Black-throated Green Warbler - 12 113. Chipping Sparrow - 7 114. Field Sparrow - 8 115. Song Sparrow - 50 116. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 117. Swamp Sparrow - 22 118. White-throated Sparrow - 13 119. White-crowned Sparrow - 18 120. Northern Cardinal - 27 121. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 6 122. Indigo Bunting - 2 123. Red-winged Blackbird - 914 124. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 125. Common Grackle - 99 126. Brown-headed Cowbird - 24 127. Orchard Oriole - 1 128. Baltimore Oriole - 26 *III. REPTILES*: 6 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Map Turtle - 7 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 28 4. Blanding's Turtle - 1 5. Northern Water Snake - 7 6. Black Rat Snake - 1 *IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - many 2. Northern Leopard Frog - 6 *V. FISHES*: 4 SPECIES. 1. Bowfin - 2 2. Common Carp - 10 3. Largemouth Bass - 1 4. Bluegill - 10 *VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 2 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 3 2. American Painted Lady - 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]