OCTOBER 02, 2011 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00pm-6:00pm TEMP.: 40-50 COND.: Brisk early, warming up &sunny; north winds up to 20mph; mostly cloudy in the afternoon, north winds up to 25mph. GROUP I: 2 persons; GROUP II: 5 persons. ROUTES: Same usual morning routes on west side; East side routes limited due to duck hunting; Same usual afternoon routes. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Mike Edgington (morning only), Ed Pierse, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 1
2. Mink - 1
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
4. White-tailed Deer - 7
II. BIRDS: 105 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 338
2. Mute Swan - 5
3. Trumpeter Swan - 28
4. Wood Duck - 42
5. American Wigeon - 27
6. American Black Duck - 5
7. Mallard - 72
8. Blue-winged Teal - 51
9. Northern Shoveler - 22
10. Northern Pintail - 36
11. Green-winged Teal - 251
12. Pied-billed Grebe - 16
13. American White Pelican - 3
14. Double-crested Cormorant - 78
15. Great Blue Heron - 49
16. Great Egret - 96
17. Snowy Egret - 5
18. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
19. Bald Eagle - 4 (3 adult, 1 immature)
20. Northern Harrier - 3
21. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
22. Red-tailed Hawk - 3
23. American Kestrel - 1
**  Unidentified Falcon - 2 (merlin/kestrel)
24. Common Moorhen - 4
25. American Coot - 27
26. Black-bellied Plover - 20
27. Semipalmated Plover - 3
28. Killdeer - 9
29. Greater Yellowlegs - 43
30. Lesser Yellowlegs - 27
31. Hudsonian Godwit - 21
32. Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
33. Dunlin - 23
34. Long-billed Dowitcher - 22
35. Bonaparte's Gull - 13
36. Ring-billed Gull - 62
37. Herring Gull - 25
38. Caspian Tern - 5
39. Common Tern - 2
40. Forster's Tern - 1
41. Rock Pigeon - 2
42. Mourning Dove - 84
43. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1
44. Belted Kingfisher - 1
45. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
46. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4
47. Downy Woodpecker - 18
48. Hairy Woodpecker - 4
49. Northern Flicker - 14
50. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
51. Eastern Phoebe - 8
52. Blue-headed Vireo - 2
53. Warbling Vireo - 1
54. Red-eyed Vireo - 4
55. Blue Jay - 33
56. Horned Lark - 6
57. Tree Swallow - 126
58. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
59. Tufted Titmouse - 3
60. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
61. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
62. Brown Creeper - 2
63. House Wren - 3
64. Winter Wren - 2
65. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 12
66. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 50
67. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 7
68. Swainson's Thrush - 2
69. Wood Thrush - 1
70. American Robin - 87
71. Gray Catbird - 4
72. Brown Thrasher - 1
73. European Starling - 876
74. Cedar Waxwing - 28
75. Tennessee Warbler - 1
76. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
77. Nashville Warbler - 1
78. Northern Parula - 1
79. Magnolia Warbler - 1
80. Cape May Warbler - 1
81. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
82. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 22
83. Black-throated Green Warbler - 3
84. Blackburnian Warbler - 1
85. Palm Warbler - 6
86. Blackpoll Warbler - 11
87. Common Yellowthroat - 1
88. Hooded Warbler - 1
89. Chipping Sparrow - 1
90. Field Sparrow - 11
91. Savannah Sparrow - 2
92. Song Sparrow - 14
93. Swamp Sparrow - 3
94. White-throated Sparrow - 15
95. White-crowned Sparrow - 16
96. Dark-eyed Junco - 2
97. Northern Cardinal - 21
98. Indigo Bunting - 5
99. Red-winged Blackbird - 2,072
100. Rusty Blackbird - 3
101. Common Grackle - 388
102. Brown-headed Cowbird - 84
103. House Finch - 1
104. American Goldfinch - 10
105. House Sparrow - 7
III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Northern Leopard Frog
IV. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp
V. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly
2. Clouded Sulphur
3. Red Admiral
4. Bronze Copper
5. Monarch
6. Silver-spotted Skipper

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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