JULY 01, 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 nests. TIME: 8:00am - 12:15pm; 1:30pm -
6:20pm TEMP.: 78 ~ 93 ~ 89
COND.: Hot, humid, muggy, and buggy. OBS.EAST: Jim Reyda, Al & Betty
Schlecht. OBS.WEST: Katie Clink, Dave Myles, Michael O'Brien, Ed Pierce,
Douglas W. Vogus.
OBS.AFTERNOON: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Cottontail - 42
2. Woodchuck - 4
3. Common Muskrat - 2
4. Mink - 1
5. White-tailed Deer - 5 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 77 SPECIES, 2,810 BIRDS.
1. Canada Goose - 252
2. Trumpeter Swan - 75 (49 adult,26 young - adults with neckbands:
"green 74M", "yellow 1A2", "yellow 3A8')
3. Wood Duck - 12
4. Mallard - 40
5. Pied-billed Grebe - 11
6. Mourning Dove - 17
7. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3
8. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1
9. Chimney Swift - 7
10. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3
11. Common Gallinule - 7
12. American Coot - 3
13. Sandhill Crane - 1
14. Killdeer - 37
15. American Woodcock - 1 (flushed from Grimm Prairie)
16. Spotted Sandpiper - 5
17. Ring-billed Gull - 2
18. Herring Gull - 8
19. Caspian Tern - 7
20. Common Tern - 3
21. Double-crested Cormorant - 54
22. Great Blue Heron - 57
23. Great Egret - 185
24. Snowy Egret - 2
25. Green Heron - 10
26. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 7
27. Turkey Vulture - 7
28. Bald Eagle - 9 (2 adult,4 immature,3 juvenile)
29. Cooper's Hawk - 1
30. Red-tailed Hawk - 8
31. Great Horned Owl - 2
32. Belted Kingfisher - 1
33. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7
34. Downy Woodpecker - 8
35. Northern Flicker - 13
36. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
37. Willow Flycatcher - 7
38. Eastern Phoebe - 1
39. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
40. Eastern Kingbird - 25
41. Warbling Vireo - 32
42. Blue Jay - 16
43. Horned Lark - 7
44. Purple Martin - 51
45. Tree Swallow - 477
46. Cliff Swallow - 1
47. Barn Swallow - 85
48. Black-capped Chickadee - 3
49. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
50. House Wren - 47
51. Marsh Wren - 27
52. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
53. Eastern Bluebird - 5
54. American Robin - 33
55. Gray Catbird - 35
56. Brown Thrasher - 2
57. European Starling - 89
58. Cedar Waxwing - 4
59. House Sparrow - 19
60. American Goldfinch - 22
61. Prothonotary Warbler - 6
62. Common Yellowthroat - 46
63. Yellow Warbler - 46
64. Chipping Sparrow - 4
65. Field Sparrow - 3
66. Henslow's Sparrow - 2 (northeast corner of Grimm Prairie)
67. Song Sparrow - 72
68. Swamp Sparrow - 13
69. Northern Cardinal - 37
70. Indigo Bunting - 23
71. Dickcissel - 14
72. Red-winged Blackbird - 573
73. Western Meadowlark - 1 (Grimm Prairie - first record on monthly
census since May 1988)
74. Common Grackle - 79
75. Brown-headed Cowbird - 13
76. Orchard Oriole - 2
77. Baltimore Oriole - 17
III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 5
3. Northern Water Snake - 1
4. Eastern Garter Snake - 2
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog - many
2. Northern Leopard Frog - 1
V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 6
2. Bluegill - 1
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 11 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 3
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 5
3. Clouded Sulphur - 11
4. Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1
5. Pearl Crescent - 3
6. Mourning Cloak - 1
7. Red Admiral - 1
8. Viceroy - 2
9. Eyed Brown - 2
10. Monarch - 38
11. Least Skipper - 1
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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