SEPTEMBER 06, 2015 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.ROUTES: Same usual morning and afternoon routes.TIME: 8:00am-12:10pm; 1:40pm-6:50pm TEMP.: 68-89COND.: Warm early turning sunny, hot & humid.OBS.: Mike Edgington, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles (morning only), Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only),Tony Szilagye (morning only) & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. - Raccoon - 1 - Woodchuck - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 - Muskrat - 1 - White-tailed Deer - 3 II. BIRDS: 112 SPECIES. - Canada Goose - 513 - Trumpeter Swan - 40 (neckbands: green "74M"; yellow "1A0"; yellow "9A0") - Wood Duck - 42 - American Wigeon - 4 - American Black Duck - 16 - Mallard - 217 - Blue-winged Teal - 198 - Northern Shoveler - 4 - Northern Pintail - 3 - Green-winged Teal - 23 - Hooded Merganser - 1 (female) - Ruddy Duck - 1 (male) - Pied-billed Grebe - 35 - Double-crested Cormorant - 52 - Least Bittern - 1 - Great Blue Heron - 77 - Great Egret - 231 - Snowy Egret - 6 - Green Heron - 4 - Black-crowned Night-Heron - 11 - Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature) - Northern Harrier - 1 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 7 - Sora - 3 - Common Gallinule - 6 - Sandhill Crane - 5 - Semipalmated Plover - 2 - Killdeer - 44 - Spotted Sandpiper - 2 - Greater Yellowlegs - 12 - Lesser Yellowlegs - 23 - Stilt Sandpiper - 8 - Pectoral Sandpiper - 8 - Long-billed Dowitcher - 2 - Wilson's Snipe - 1 - Red-necked Phalarope - 5 (all together in Moist Soil Unit 3 - no public access) - Bonaparte's Gull - 1 - Ring-billed Gull - 230 - Herring Gull - 8 - Caspian Tern - 31 - Common Tern - 5 - Mourning Dove - 110 - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 - Great Horned Owl - 1 - Chimney Swift - 5 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 - Belted Kingfisher - 9 - Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (1 adult,1 heard only) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 - Downy Woodpecker - 28 - Hairy Woodpecker - 1 - Northern Flicker - 11 - Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (only second record in history of monthly census) - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 11 - Willow Flycatcher - 5 - Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 2 - Eastern Phoebe - 1 - Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 - Eastern KIngbird - 10 - Warbling Vireo - 55 - Red-eyed Vireo - 11 - Blue Jay - 45 - American Crow - 1 - Horned Lark - 6 - Tree Swallow - 44 - Barn Swallow - 3 - Black-capped Chickadee - 11 - Tufted Titmouse - 2 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 15 - House Wren - 9 - Marsh Wren - 4 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 - Veery - 1 - Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 - Swainson's Thrush - 31 - American Robin - 127 - Gray Catbird - 61 - Brown Thrasher - 1 - European Starling - 311 - Cedar Waxwing - 21 - Ovenbird - 1 - Black-and-white Warbler - 1 - Prothonotary Warbler - 1 - Tennessee Warbler - 2 - Nashville Warbler - 1 - Common Yellowthroat - 10 - American Redstart - 7 - Cape May Warbler - 4 - Magnolia Warbler - 2 - Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 - Blackburnian Warbler - 2 - Yellow Warbler - 1 - Blackpoll Warbler - 3 - Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 - Canada Warbler - 1 - Wilson's Warbler - 1 - Savannah Sparrow - 1 - Song Sparrow - 13 - Swamp Sparrow - 2 - Scarlet Tanager - 4 - Northern Cardinal - 16 - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 - Indigo Bunting - 10 - Bobolink - 6 - Red-winged Blackbird - 675 - Common Grackle - 121 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 - Baltimore Oriole - 9 - House Finch - 6 - American Goldfinch - 65 - House Sparrow - 14 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. - Map Turtle - 7 - Midland Painted Turtle - 8 - Northern Water Snake - 1 (young) IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. - Bullfrog - Green Frog - Northern Leopard Frog V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES. - Bowfin - 8 - Gizzard Shad - thousands (being fed on by Bowfin) - Brown Bullhead - about 60 (in the ditch along gravel Krause Rd. - between 2" and 12") VI. BUTTERFLIES: 12 SPECIES. - Cabbage Butterfly - 20+ - Clouded Sulphur - 40+ - Dainty Sulphur - 2 - Bronze Copper - 1 - Summer Azure - 4 - Pearl Crescent - 9 - Red Admiral - 2 - Buckeye - 1 - Red-spotted Purple - 2 - Viceroy - 7 - Monarch - 24 - Least Skipper - 16 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]