*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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