*NOVEMBER 05, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.* *ROUTES*: Usual morning and afternoon routes (east and west sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon.) *TIME*: 8:00am - 12:00pm; 1:25pm - 4:30pm *TEMP.*: 59 ~ 70 ~ 64 *COND.*: Overcast and gray, front from the west; incoming storms at 12:30pm, turning very dark, high winds from W/SW and steady rain, downpours at times, with very poor visibility, lightning, thunder, and a tornado warning. *OBS. EAST*: Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. *OBS. WEST*: Katie Clink, Amy Didion, Jimmy Joyce, Jim Koppen, Kathy Kretz, Dave & Kim Myles, Ed Pierce, Douglas W. Vogus. *OBS. AFTERNOON*: Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. *I. MAMMALS*: 6 SPECIES. 1. Northern Short-tailed Shrew - 1 2. Eastern Cottontail - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 7 4. Common Muskrat - 2 5. Mink - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 5 (doe) *II. BIRDS*: 74 SPECIES, 5,559 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Snow Goose - 23 (22 blue,1 white) *(one flock headed west - seen from Krause Rd.)* 2. Canada Goose - 546 3. Trumpeter Swan - 41 *(one with yellow neckband, bird flying, too far away to read)* 4. Tundra Swan - 62 5. Wood Duck - 98 6. Gadwall - 460 7. American Wigeon - 6 8. American Black Duck - 10 9. Mallard - 564 10. Blue-winged Teal - 8 11. Northern Shoveler - 15 12. Northern Pintail - 26 13. Green-winged Teal - 16 14. Ring-necked Duck - 73 15. Hooded Merganser - 17 16. Ruddy Duck - 6 17. Pied-billed Grebe - 22 18. Horned Grebe - 2 *(in Lake Erie at the Ottawa fish gate)* 19. Mourning Dove - 19 20. American Coot - 9 21. Sandhill Crane - 10 22. Killdeer - 31 23. Hudsonian Godwit - 5 *(in MS5 - thanks to Paul Jacyk for this find!)* 24. Dunlin - 151 25. Least Sandpiper - 3 26. Long-billed Dowitcher - 18 *(13 along Krause Rd. & 5 in MS5 with the godwits)* 27. Wilson's Snipe - 1 *(flushed from Stange Prairie)* 28. Greater Yellowlegs - 13 29. Lesser Yellowlegs - 18 30. Bonaparte's Gull - 564 31. Ring-billed Gull - 920 32. Herring Gull - 23 *(11 second-year birds)* 33. Double-crested Cormorant - 83 34. Great Blue Heron - 56 35. Great Egret - 37 36. Bald Eagle - 6 (5 adult,1 immature) 37. Northern Harrier - 2 38. Cooper's Hawk - 2 39. Red-tailed Hawk - 11 40. Great Horned Owl - 1 41. Belted Kingfisher - 2 42. Red-headed Woodpecker - 6 (3 adult,3 immature) 43. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 15 44. Downy Woodpecker - 28 45. Northern Flicker - 4 46. Blue Jay - 114 47. Horned Lark - 13 48. Black-capped Chickadee - 17 49. Tufted Titmouse - 5 50. White-breasted Nuthatch - 12 51. Brown Creeper - 2 52. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 34 53. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 54. American Robin - 1 55. European Starling - 296 56. Cedar Waxwing - 9 57. House Sparrow - 31 58. House Finch - 5 59. Pine Siskin - 1 *(fly-over at Adam Grimm Prairie)* 60. American Goldfinch - 44 61. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 62. American Tree Sparrow - 32 63. Field Sparrow - 1 *(hedgerow along Stange Prairie)* 64. Savannah Sparrow - 1 *(Adam Grimm Prairie)* 65. Song Sparrow - 31 66. Swamp Sparrow - 14 67. White-throated Sparrow - 21 68. White-crowned Sparrow - 3 69. Dark-eyed Junco - 26 70. Northern Cardinal - 17 71. Red-winged Blackbird - 641 72. Rusty Blackbird - 100 73. Common Grackle - 4 74. Brown-headed Cowbird - 45 *III. REPTILES*: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Northern Water Snake - 2 3. Eastern Fox Snake - 1 *IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 3 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - many 2. Green Frog - 2 3. Northern Leopard Frog - 14 *V. FISHES*: 2 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gizzard Shad - one large school 2. Common Carp - 3 *VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 5 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1 2. Clouded Sulphur - 1 3. Pearl Crescent - 1 4. Red Admiral - 2 5. Monarch - 1 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]