*AUGUST 05, 2018 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.*
*ROUTES*: Same usual morning and afternoon routes - East and West sides in
the morning and back side (Auto Tour) area in the afternoon.  *TIME*:
8:00am - 12:10pm; 1:45pm - 4:55pm
*TEMP.*: 71 ~ 90  *COND.*: Sunny, hot, and humid.  *OBS.EAST*: Katie Clink,
Ed Pierce.  *OBS.WEST*: Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Kyle Myles, Jim
Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht,
Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus.  *OBS.AFTERNOON*: Bob Bartolotta, Claire
Johnson, Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

*I. MAMMALS*: 6 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 11
   2. Woodchuck - 8
   3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
   4. Common Muskrat - 2
   5. Common Raccoon - 1
   6. White-tailed Deer - 2


*II. BIRDS*: 92 SPECIES, 3,496 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Canada Goose - 774
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 46 (6 young; 3 adults with neckbands: "green 74M",
   "yellow 1A2", and "yellow 3A8")
   3. Wood Duck - 58
   4. Mallard - 47
   5. Blue-winged Teal - 1
   6. Hooded Merganser - 1
   7. Pied-billed Grebe - 10
   8. Mourning Dove - 93
   9. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
   10. Chimney Swift - 1
   11. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 6
   12. Common Gallinule - 1
   13. American Coot - 1
   14. Sandhill Crane - 5
   15. Semipalmated Plover - 3
   16. Killdeer - 51
   17. Dunlin - 32
   18. Least Sandpiper - 9
   19. Pectoral Sandpiper - 2
   20. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 27
   21. Short-billed Dowitcher - 2
   22. Spotted Sandpiper - 8
   23. Solitary Sandpiper - 1
   24. Greater Yellowlegs - 6
   25. Lesser Yellowlegs - 24
   26. Ring-billed Gull - 13
   27. Herring Gull - 1
   28. Caspian Tern - 8
   29. Common Tern - 3
   30. Double-crested Cormorant - 22
   31. Great Blue Heron - 71
   32. Great Egret - 133
   33. Snowy Egret - 18
   34. Green Heron - 6
   35. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3
   36. Turkey Vulture - 4
   37. Bald Eagle - 8 (3 adult,5 immature)
   38. Red-tailed Hawk - 8
   39. Great Horned Owl - 3
   40. Belted Kingfisher - 2
   41. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (adult)
   42. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
   43. Downy Woodpecker - 19
   44. Northern Flicker - 15
   45. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4
   46. Willow Flycatcher - 11
   47. Eastern Phoebe - 12
   48. Great Crested Flycatcher - 4
   49. Eastern Kingbird - 55
   50. Warbling Vireo - 10
   51. Red-eyed Vireo - 3
   52. Blue Jay - 20
   53. Horned Lark - 2
   54. Purple Martin - 54
   55. Tree Swallow - 226
   56. Bank Swallow - 2
   57. Barn Swallow - 108
   58. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
   59. Tufted Titmouse - 3
   60. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
   61. Brown Creeper - 1
   62. House Wren - 17
   63. Marsh Wren - 1
   64. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 6
   65. Eastern Bluebird - 4
   66. American Robin - 113
   67. Gray Catbird - 22
   68. Brown Thrasher - 1
   69. Northern Mockingbird - 1 (juvenile)
   70. European Starling - 248
   71. Cedar Waxwing - 5
   72. House Sparrow - 28
   73. House Finch - 9
   74. American Goldfinch - 40
   75. Prothonotary Warbler - 2
   76. Common Yellowthroat - 13
   77. Yellow Warbler - 23
   78. Chipping Sparrow - 1
   79. Field Sparrow - 3
   80. Savannah Sparrow - 1
   81. Henslow's Sparrow - 2  (Grimm Prairie)
   82. Song Sparrow - 35
   83. Swamp Sparrow - 6
   84. Northern Cardinal - 26
   85. Indigo Bunting - 17
   86. Dickcissel - 1  (between Rt. 2 and the visitor center entrance drive)
   87. Bobolink - 3  (Grimm Prairie)
   88. Red-winged Blackbird - 659
   89. Common Grackle - 103
   90. Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
   91. Orchard Oriole - 1
   92. Baltimore Oriole - 19


*III. REPTILES*: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Northern Water Snake - 2
   2. Eastern Garter Snake - 3


*IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 3 SPECIES.

   1. Bullfrog - 19
   2. Green Frog - 13
   3. Northern Leopard Frog - 18


*V. FISHES*: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Creek Chub - 15


*VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 9 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 5
   2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3
   3. Cabbage Butterfly - 19
   4. Clouded Sulphur - 25
   5. Summer Azure - 2
   6. Pearl Crescent - 9
   7. Viceroy - 2
   8. Monarch - 43
   9. Least Skipper - 4


*VII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES*: 13 SPECIES.

   1. Common Green Darner
   2. Halloween Pennant
   3. Eastern Pondhawk
   4. Widow Skimmer
   5. Blue Dasher
   6. Wandering Glider
   7. Eastern Amberwing
   8. Ruby Meadowhawk
   9. Black Saddlebags
   10. Slender Spreadwing - 1
   11. Familiar Bluet
   12. Orange Bluet
   13. Eastern Forktail


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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