OCTOBER 02, 2016 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.ROUTES: Limited coverage in the morning on the east side & west side due to Youth Waterfowl Hunting. Had to leave backside of refuge at 4:30pm due to Youth Waterfowl Hunting as well. Most of normal areas covered, though not as thorough due to time restraints.TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:30pm-4:35pm TEMP.: 55~74~71 COND.: Cloudy/overcast early with brief 20 minute shower; turning partly sunny and warmer; wind from west at 5-10mph. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Nicole King (morning only), Jim Koppin (morning only), Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Tony Szilagye (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
- Common Raccoon - 1
- Woodchuck - 1
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
- Eastern Cottontail - 2
- White-tailed Deer - 2 (1 doe,1 yearling)
II. BIRDS: 105 SPECIES (order follows Ottawa NWR Bird Checklist).
- Canada Goose - 409
- Trumpeter Swan - 50 (green band "74M" & yellow band "1A2")
- Wood Duck - 73
- Gadwall - 216
- American Wigeon - 12
- American Black Duck - 14
- Mallard - 191
- Blue-winged Teal - 2
- Northern Shoveler - 14
- Northern Pintail - 15
- Green-winged Teal - 40
- Hooded Merganser - 1
- Pied-billed Grebe - 23
- American White Pelican - 24
- Double-crested Cormorant - 31
- Great Blue Heron - 78
- Great Egret - 166
- Snowy Egret - 12
- Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3
- Turkey Vulture - 4
- Bald Eagle - 6 (4 adult,2 immature)
- Northern Harrier - 4
- Cooper's Hawk - 1
- Red-tailed Hawk - 12
- Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature female over Stange Prairie)
- Sora - 1
- American Coot - 51
- Sandhill Crane - 8
- Killdeer - 23
- Greater Yellowlegs - 5
- Lesser Yellowlegs - 6
- Dunlin - 8
- Ring-billed Gull - 151
- Herring Gull - 7
- Caspian Tern - 1
- Mourning Dove - 122
- Eastern Screech-Owl - 2
- Chimney Swift - 2
- Red-headed Woodpecker - 5
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
- Downy Woodpecker - 19
- Hairy Woodpecker - 1
- Northern Flicker - 39
- Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 (Dave Myles)
- Willow Flycatcher - 1 (Jim Reyda)
- Eastern Phoebe - 11
- Philadelphia Vireo - 3
- Red-eyed Vireo - 4
- Blue Jay - 61
- Horned Lark - 2
- Tree Swallow - 1,086
- Barn Swallow - 1
- Black-capped Chickadee - 11
- Tufted Titmouse - 1
- Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 9
- Brown Creeper - 2
- House Wren - 3
- Winter Wren - 2
- Marsh Wren - 1
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 23
- Swainson's Thrush - 16
- American Robin - 54
- Gray Catbird - 32
- Brown Thrasher - 3
- European Starling - 2,828
- Cedar Waxwing - 1
- Tennessee Warbler - 2
- Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
- Nashville Warbler - 1
- Northern Parula - 1
- Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
- Magnolia Warbler - 12
- Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4
- Yellow-rumped Warbler - 27
- Black-throated Green Warbler - 3
- Pine Warbler - 2
- Palm Warbler - 1
- Blackpoll Warbler - 20
- Black-and-white Warbler - 2
- American Redstart - 4
- Ovenbird - 1
- Northern Waterthrush - 2
- Common Yellowthroat - 6
- Wilson's Warbler - 1
- Chipping Sparrow - 4
- Field Sparrow - 6
- Savannah Sparrow - 8
- Song Sparrow - 21
- Lincoln's Sparrow - 8
- Swamp Sparrow - 2
- White-throated Sparrow - 5
- Harris's Sparrow - 1 (at Black Swamp Bird Observatory's feeder)
- White-crowned Sparrow - 9
- Northern Cardinal - 13
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2
- Indigo Bunting - 6
- Red-winged Blackbird - 1,728
- Eastern Meadowlark - 7
- Common Grackle - 36
- House Finch - 4
- American Goldfinch - 125
- House Sparrow - 78
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.
- Common Snapping Turtle - 1
- Midland Painted Turtle - 6
- Eastern Garter Snake - 1 (Stange Prairie)
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
- Green Frog - 1
- Northern Leopard Frog - 2
V. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES.
- Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1
- Cabbage Butterfly - 7
- Clouded Sulphur - 85+ (Stange Prairie was filled with them)
- Bronze Copper - 1
- Pearl Crescent - 1
- Buckeye - 6
- Monarch - 3
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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