OCTOBER 01, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: Usual morning & afternoon routes (east and west sides in the
morning, back side in the afternoon.)
TIME: 8:10am - 12:15pm; 1:50pm - 6:00pm  TEMP.: 46 ~ 70 ~ 65  COND.: Chilly
early, warming quickly to sunny, clear skies; wind N/NE at 5-10mph.
OBS. EAST: Katie Clink, Jim Koppen, Ed Pierce.  OBS. WEST: Doug Brockway,
Mike Edgington, Jimmy Joyce, Jennifer Keuhn, Donna Kuhn,
Dave & Kim Myles, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht, Tony Szilagye, Douglas W.
Vogus.
OBS. AFTERNOON: Mike Edgington, Jim Koppen, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas
W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.

   1. Woodchuck - 1
   2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
   3. Meadow Vole - 1
   4. Common Muskrat - 2
   5. White-tailed Deer - 8 (4-pt buck,7 does)


II. BIRDS: 107 SPECIES, 5,221 TOTAL BIRDS.

   1. Canada Goose - 293
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 65
   3. Wood Duck - 176
   4. Gadwall -43
   5. American Wigeon - 36
   6. American Black Duck - 17
   7. Mallard - 133
   8. Blue-winged Teal - 1
   9. Northern Shoveler - 2
   10. Northern Pintail - 7
   11. Green-winged Teal - 32
   12. Ruddy Duck - 3
   13. Pied-billed Grebe - 55
   14. Mourning Dove - 72
   15. Chimney Swift - 1
   16. Virginia Rail - 1
   17. Sora - 5
   18. American Coot - 41
   19. Sandhill Crane - 16
   20. American Golden-Plover - 4
   21. Killdeer - 63
   22. Pectoral Sandpiper - 5
   23. Long-billed Dowitcher - 6
   24. Wilson's Snipe - 2
   25. Solitary Sandpiper - 1
   26. Greater Yellowlegs - 6
   27. Lesser Yellowlegs - 12
   28. Bonaparte's Gull - 36
   29. Ring-billed Gull - 199
   30. Herring Gull - 13
   31. Common Tern - 1
   32. Double-crested Cormorant - 86
   33. Great Blue Heron - 78
   34. Great Egret - 143
   35. Snowy Egret - 3
   36. Green Heron - 1
   37. Turkey Vulture - 15
   38. Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adult,1 immature)
   39. Northern Harrier - 2
   40. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
   41. Great Horned Owl - 2
   42. Belted Kingfisher - 4
   43. Red-headed Woodpecker - 5
   44. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 21
   45. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
   46. Downy Woodpecker - 46
   47. Hairy Woodpecker - 4
   48. Northern Flicker - 20
   49. American Kestrel - 2
   50. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature male plucking a bird in flight)
   51. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
   52. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1
   53. Willow Flycatcher - 1  (Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 1)
   54. Eastern Phoebe - 12
   55. Eastern Kingbird - 1
   56. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
   57. Blue-headed Vireo - 1
   58. Philadelphia Vireo - 3
   59. Red-eyed Vireo - 1
   60. Blue Jay - 54
   61. Horned Lark - 4
   62. Tree Swallow - 206
   63. Black-capped Chickadee - 11
   64. Tufted Titmouse - 3
   65. White-breasted Nuthatch - 21
   66. Brown Creeper - 8
   67. House Wren - 2
   68. Winter Wren - 1
   69. Marsh Wren - 2
   70. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 26
   71. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 38
   72. Swainson's Thrush - 2
   73. American Robin - 155
   74. Gray Catbird - 16
   75. Brown Thrasher - 1
   76. European Starling - 863
   77. House Sparrow - 37
   78. House Finch - 4
   79. American Goldfinch - 35
   80. Golden-winged Warbler - 1
   81. Black-and-white Warbler - 5
   82. Nashville Warbler - 1
   83. Common Yellowthroat - 10
   84. American Redstart - 1
   85. Cape May Warbler - 2
   86. Northern Parula - 1
   87. Magnolia Warbler - 2
   88. Bay-breasted Warbler - 3
   89. Blackpoll Warbler - 10
   90. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
   91. Palm Warbler - 1
   92. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 34
   93. Black-throated Green Warbler - 15
   94. Eastern Towhee - 1
   95. Savannah Sparrow - 5
   96. Song Sparrow - 26
   97. Lincoln's Sparrow - 10
   98. Swamp Sparrow - 19
   99. White-throated Sparrow - 59
   100. White-crowned Sparrow - 20
   101. Northern Cardinal - 31
   102. Indigo Bunting - 3
   103. Bobolink - 3
   104. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,473
   105. Rusty Blackbird - 16
   106. Common Grackle - 139
   107. Brown-headed Cowbird - 27


III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Midland Painted Turtle - 14
   2. Northern Water Snake - 1


IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.

   1. Bullfrog - 1
   2. Green Frog - 3
   3. Northern Leopard Frog - 6


V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - 3
   2. Unknown Minnows - about 70


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 9 SPECIES.

   1. Cabbage Butterfly - 9
   2. Clouded Sulphur - 32
   3. Orange Sulphur - 14
   4. Bronze Copper - 173
   5. Painted Lady - 5
   6. Common Buckeye - 9
   7. Viceroy - 3
   8. Monarch - 15
   9. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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