*JUNE 03, 2018 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.* *ROUTES*: East and West sides in the morning; back side in the afternoon - except where closed for eagle nesting. *TIME*: 8:00am - 12:45pm; 2:20pm - 7:00pm *TEMP.*: 56 ~ 77 *COND.*: Mostly cloudy and cool early, overcast at times; winds W/NW at 5-15mph; mostly sunny and warmer in the afternoon. *OBS.EAST*: Katie Clink, Michael O'Brien, Ed Pierce. *OBS.WEST*: Dustin Braden, Dave & Kim Myles, Jim Reyda, Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus. *OBS.AFTERNOON*: Bob Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. *I. MAMMALS*: 8 SPECIES. 1. Virginia Opossum - 1 2. Eastern Cottontail - 25 3. Woodchuck - 3 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 10 5. Common Muskrat - 4 6. Common Raccoon - 2 7. Mink - 1 8. White-tailed Deer - 5 *II. BIRDS*: 88 SPECIES, 3,105 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Canada Goose - 554 2. Trumpeter Swan - 34 (one w/neckband "3A8 - yellow") 3. Wood Duck - 122 4. Mallard - 23 5. Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male) 6. Common Goldeneye - 1 (Second June Record on Census) 7. Hooded Merganser - 1 8. Red-breasted Merganser - 1 (Third June Record on Census) 9. Pied-billed Grebe - 23 10. Rock Pigeon - 1 11. Mourning Dove - 18 12. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4 13. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 14. Chimney Swift - 8 15. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 16. King Rail - 1 (Third June Record on Census) 17. Virginia Rail - 2 18. Common Gallinule - 6 19. American Coot - 4 20. Sandhill Crane - 1 21. Killdeer - 28 22. American Woodcock - 1 (Adam Grimm Prairie) 23. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 24. Ring-billed Gull - 4 25. Herring Gull - 1 26. Caspian Tern - 2 27. Common Tern - 3 28. Double-crested Cormorant - 113 29. Least Bittern - 1 30. Great Blue Heron - 57 31. Great Egret - 114 32. Snowy Egret - 2 33. Green Heron - 7 34. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 10 35. Turkey Vulture - 10 36. Osprey - 1 37. Bald Eagle - 11 (4 adult,5 immature,2 juvenile) 38. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 39. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 40. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 41. Downy Woodpecker - 2 42. Northern Flicker - 10 43. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 7 44. Willow Flycatcher - 13 45. Least Flycatcher - 1 46. Eastern Phoebe - 7 47. Great Crested Flycatcher - 5 48. Eastern Kingbird - 23 49. Warbling Vireo - 22 50. Red-eyed Vireo - 6 51. Blue Jay - 18 52. Horned Lark - 6 53. Purple Martin - 51 54. Tree Swallow - 291 55. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 56. Cliff Swallow - 12 57. Barn Swallow - 62 58. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 59. Tufted Titmouse - 3 60. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 61. Brown Creeper - 1 (First June Record on Census) 62. House Wren - 26 63. Marsh Wren - 50 64. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 65. Swainson's Thrush - 1 66. American Robin - 56 67. Gray Catbird - 26 68. Brown Thrasher - 5 69. European Starling - 72 70. Cedar Waxwing - 1 71. House Sparrow - 14 72. House Finch - 7 73. American Goldfinch - 20 74. Prothonotary Warbler - 7 75. Common Yellowthroat - 32 76. Yellow Warbler - 131 77. Chipping Sparrow - 6 78. Field Sparrow - 12 79. Savannah Sparrow - 2 80. Song Sparrow - 67 81. Swamp Sparrow - 30 82. Northern Cardinal - 21 83. Indigo Bunting - 16 84. Dickcissel - 2 (Adam Grimm Prairie) 85. Red-winged Blackbird - 623 86. Common Grackle - 116 87. Brown-headed Cowbird - 15 88. Baltimore Oriole - 11 *III. REPTILES*: 5 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 10 2. Map Turtle - 1 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 5 4. Blanding's Turtle - 1 5. Northern Water Snake - 2 *IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - many 2. Northern Leopard Frog - 1 *V. FISHES*: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - many *VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 1 3. Pearl Crescent - 2 4. Mourning Cloak - 1 5. Viceroy - 1 6. Monarch - 9 7. Least Skipper - 2 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]