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. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]