*SEPTEMBER 02, 2018 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.*
*ROUTES*: East and West sides in the morning and back side (Auto Tour area)
in the afternoon.  *TIME*: 8:00am - 12:15pm; 1:40pm - 5:50pm  *TEMP.*: 64F
~ 87F
*COND.*: Sunny, hot, humid, and sticky; winds SW at 5-10mph  *OBS.EAST*:
Randal & Patty Hauck, Jim Reyda.  *OBS.WEST*: Katie Clink, Jim Koppen,
Jennifer Kuehn,
Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Michael O'Brien, Ed Pierce, Al & Betty
Schlecht, Douglas W. Vogus.  *OBS. AFTERNOON*: Jim Koppen, Ed Pierce, Jim
Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

*I. MAMMALS*: 7 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 4
   2. Woodchuck - 2
   3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
   4. Common Muskrat - 1
   5. Common Raccoon - 1
   6. Mink - 1
   7. White-tailed Deer - 4


*II. BIRDS*: 88 SPECIES, 3,732 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Canada Goose - 156
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 46
   3. Wood Duck - 54
   4. Mallard - 125
   5. Blue-winged Teal - 7
   6. Pied-billed Grebe - 56
   7. Rock Pigeon - 1
   8. Mourning Dove - 161
   9. Chimney Swift - 4
   10. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4
   11. Common Gallinule - 10
   12. American Coot - 1
   13. Sandhill Crane - 6
   14. Killdeer - 23
   15. Greater Yellowlegs - 2
   16. Lesser Yellowlegs - 5
   17. Ring-billed Gull - 238
   18. Herring Gull - 3
   19. Caspian Tern - 7
   20. Double-crested Cormorant - 77
   21. Great Blue Heron - 69
   22. Great Egret - 181
   23. Snowy Egret - 1
   24. Cattle Egret - 1
   25. Green Heron - 2
   26. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
   27. Turkey Vulture - 9
   28. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature)
   29. Northern Harrier - 1
   30. Cooper's Hawk - 2
   31. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
   32. Red-tailed Hawk - 10
   33. Great Horned Owl - 3
   34. Belted Kingfisher - 1
   35. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3
   36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11
   37. Downy Woodpecker - 20
   38. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
   39. Northern Flicker - 16
   40. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature)
   41. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 8
   42. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1
   43. Willow Flycatcher - 7  (Unidentified *Empidonax* Flycatcher - 4)
   44. Eastern Phoebe - 15
   45. Eastern Kingbird - 39
   46. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
   47. Warbling Vireo - 22
   48. Red-eyed Vireo - 3
   49. Blue Jay - 28
   50. Horned Lark - 1
   51. Purple Martin - 314
   52. Tree Swallow - 147
   53. Barn Swallow - 74
   54. Black-capped Chickadee - 12
   55. Tufted Titmouse - 2
   56. White-breasted Nuthatch - 9
   57. House Wren - 5
   58. Marsh Wren - 1
   59. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
   60. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
   61. Eastern Bluebird - 1
   62. American Robin - 90
   63. Gray Catbird - 21
   64. Brown Thrasher - 3
   65. Northern Mockingbird - 2
   66. European Starling - 358
   67. Cedar Waxwing - 11
   68. House Sparrow - 25
   69. House Finch - 4
   70. American Goldfinch - 83
   71. Black-and-white Warbler - 1
   72. Nashville Warbler - 2
   73. Common Yellowthroat - 9
   74. American Redstart - 4
   75. Magnolia Warbler - 1
   76. Blackburnian Warbler - 1
   77. Blackpoll Warbler - 2
   78. Field Sparrow - 1
   79. Savannah Sparrow - 1
   80. Song Sparrow - 18
   81. Northern Cardinal - 21
   82. Indigo Bunting - 3
   83. Bobolink - 2
   84. Red-winged Blackbird - 944
   85. Eastern Meadowlark - 2
   86. Common Grackle - 58
   87. Brown-headed Cowbird - 31
   88. Baltimore Oriole - 13


*III. REPTILES*: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1
   2. Midland Painted Turtle - 4


*IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Bullfrog - many
   2. Northern Leopard Frog - 2


*V. FISHES*: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - 1


*VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 16 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 7
   2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3
   3. Cabbage Butterfly - 76
   4. Clouded Sulphur - 73
   5. Orange Sulphur - 12
   6. Bronze Copper - 5
   7. Eastern Tailed-Blue - 2
   8. Summer Azure - 5
   9. Pearl Crescent - 17
   10. Red Admiral - 2
   11. Common Buckeye - 5
   12. Red-spotted Purple - 2
   13. Viceroy - 17
   14. Monarch - 443
   15. Least Skipper - 11
   16. Common Checkered-Skipper - 2  (First Record on Census)


*VII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES*: 12 SPECIES.

   1. Common Green Darner
   2. Eastern Pondhawk
   3. Widow Skimmer
   4. Twelve-spotted Skimmer
   5. Blue Dasher
   6. Wandering Glider
   7. Eastern Amberwing
   8. Ruby Meadowhawk
   9. Black Saddlebags
   10. Blue-fronted Dancer
   11. Orange Bluet
   12. Eastern Forktail


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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