APRIL 04, 2010 - Ottawa N.W.R. Monthly Census. TIME: 8:00am-12:40pm; 2:10pm-6:10pm TEMP.: 54-71 COND.: Mostly sunny and dry, turning partly cloudy in the afternoon; wind S/SW at 5-15mph. NOTE: Thanks to Jack & Janet Volker, Rebecca Hinkle and Dale Buchner for starting the count on time for us as a flat tire in Summit County delayed Ed, Jim and I for over an hour. OBS.: Dale Buchner (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus, Jack & Janet Volker (morning only). I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Woodchuck - 1 3. Muskrat - 1 4. Eastern Cottontail - 2 5. White-tailed Deer - 1 II. BIRDS: 86 SPECIES,1 RELEASE. 1. Canada Goose - 380 R. Trumpeter Swan - 21 (yellow neckbands: 9A0,8A9 & 1A2; also a pair with a yellow band and a green band that were too far off to read) 2. Tundra Swan - 22 3. Wood Duck - 68 4. Gadwall - 515 5. American Wigeon - 51 6. American Black Duck - 8 7. Mallard - 198 8. Blue-winged Teal - 120 9. Northern Shoveler - 180 10. Northern Pintail - 14 11. Green-winged Teal - 190 12. Ring-necked Duck - 11 13. Greater Scaup - 5 14. Lesser Scaup - 5,060 15. Bufflehead - 25 16. Hooded Merganser - 12 17. Common Merganser - 17 18. Ruddy Duck - 300 19. Ring-necked Pheasant - 1 20. Common Loon - 1 21. Pied-billed Grebe - 16 22. Double-crested Cormorant - 18 23. Great Blue Heron - 51 24. Great Egret - 23 25. Turkey Vulture - 60 26. Bald Eagle - 23 (6 adult,17 immature) 27. Northern Harrier - 3 28. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3 29. Cooper's Hawk - 3 30. Northern Goshawk - 1 (adult - J. & J. Volker) 31. Red-tailed Hawk - 17 32. American Kestrel - 2 33. American Coot - 593 34. Sandhill Crane - 3 35. Killdeer - 32 36. Greater Yellowlegs - 6 37. Lesser Yellowlegs - 9 38. Pectoral Sandpiper - 24 39. Bonaparte's Gull - 192 40. Ring-billed Gull - 16 41. Herring Gull - 36 42. Caspian Tern - 3 43. Mourning Dove - 12 44. Great Horned Owl - 3 45. Belted Kingfisher - 2 46. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 47. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 48. Downy Woodpecker - 8 49. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 50. Northern Flicker - 24 51. Eastern Phoebe - 10 52. Blue Jay - 24 53. American Crow - 4 54. Tree Swallow - 144 55. Black-capped Chickadee - 1 56. Tufted Titmouse - 3 57. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 58. Brown Creeper - 1 59. Carolina Wren - 2 60. Winter Wren - 1 61. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 62. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 63. Eastern Bluebird - 2 64. Hermit Thrush - 7 65. American Robin - 129 66. Northern Mockingbird - 1 67. Brown Thrasher - 2 68. European Starling - 99 69. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 70. Palm Warbler - 1 71. American Tree Sparrow - 3 72. Field Sparrow - 9 73. Fox Sparrow - 12 74. Song Sparrow - 48 75. Swamp Sparrow - 1 76. White-throated Sparrow - 3 77. Dark-eyed Junco - 9 78. Northern Cardinal - 29 79. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,199 80. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 81. Rusty Blackbird - 7 82. Common Grackle - 92 83. Brown-headed Cowbird - 7 84. House Finch - 1 85. American Goldfinch - 9 86. House Sparrow - 6 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Red-eared Turtle - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 1 2. Northern Leopard Frog - many calling V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 4 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 3 2. Mourning Cloak - 5 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]