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Date: 4/7/25 4:29 pm From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census
APRIL 06, 2025 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: East Side, West Side, Western Prairies in the morning; Wildlife Drive (except where closed for eagle nesting) in the afternoon. OBS. EAST: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Susan Brauning, Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, David & Kim Myles, George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Tracy Wiczer. OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES & HENRY MARSH: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Bob Bartolotta, Matt, Nora & Maeve Bartolotta, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. TIME: 7:25am - 12:40pm; 1:40pm - 4:15pm TIME AFIELD: 6:50 TEMP.: 38F ~ 46F ~ 44F COND.: Chilly, cloudy, and windy early - wind chill of 27F - with winds steady from the N/NE; turning partly sunny and warmer; very saturated conditions from rains earlier in the week - all water high with many flooded fields. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES, 41 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002) 1. Eastern Cottontail - 5 2. Woodchuck - 4 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 14 4. American Beaver - 1 (Fifth April Record on Census & Tied Census High from 18 other occasions) 5. White-footed Mouse - 1 6. Common Muskrat - 9 7. American Mink - 1 8. White-tailed Deer - 6 (4 does,2 unknown) II. BIRDS: 81 SPECIES, 13,157 TOTAL. (Recorded since 03/02/1969) 1. Canada Goose - 439 2. Trumpeter Swan - 125 3. Wood Duck - 57 4. Blue-winged Teal - 253 5. Northern Shoveler - 218 6. Gadwall - 821 7. American Wigeon - 9 8. American Black Duck - 13 9. Mallard - 184 10. Northern Pintail - 46 11. Green-winged Teal - 161 12. Redhead - 4 13. Ring-necked Duck - 429 14. Greater Scaup - 2 15. Lesser Scaup - 5,545 16. Bufflehead - 55 17. Hooded Merganser - 12 18. Common Merganser - 23 19. Pied-billed Grebe - 21 20. Mourning Dove - 36 21. American Coot - 147 22. Sandhill Crane - 52 23. Killdeer - 36 24. Dunlin - 15 25. American Woodcock - 2 26. Wilson's Snipe - 5 27. Greater Yellowlegs - 11 28. Lesser Yellowlegs - 10 29. Bonaparte's Gull - 1,418 30. Ring-billed Gull - 35 31. Herring Gull - 3 32. Caspian Tern - 2 33. Double-crested Cormorant - 56 34. American White Pelican - 181 35. Great Egret - 165 36. Great Blue Heron - 22 37. Turkey Vulture - 10 38. Osprey - 1 39. Northern Harrier - 4 40. Cooper's Hawk - 3 41. Bald Eagle - 35 (23 adult,12 immature) 42. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 43. Great Horned Owl - 3 (1 adult,2 juvenile) 44. Belted Kingfisher - 5 45. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 46. Downy Woodpecker - 15 47. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 48. Northern Flicker - 35 49. American Kestrel - 4 50. Eastern Phoebe - 8 51. Blue Jay - 33 52. Black-capped Chickadee - 9 53. Tufted Titmouse - 1 54. Tree Swallow - 593 55. Purple Martin - 12 56. Barn Swallow - 1 57. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 58. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6 59. Brown Creeper - 3 60. Carolina Wren - 3 61. Winter Wren - 1 62. European Starling - 142 63. Hermit Thrush - 2 64. American Robin - 82 65. House Sparrow - 11 66. House Finch - 2 67. American Goldfinch - 6 68. Lapland Longspur - 12 69. Chipping Sparrow - 2 70. Fox Sparrow - 54 71. American Tree Sparrow - 81 72. Dark-eyed Junco - 9 73. Song Sparrow - 67 74. Swamp Sparrow - 2 75. Eastern Meadowlark - 3 76. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,071 77. Brown-headed Cowbird - 14 78. Rusty Blackbird - 13 79. Common Grackle - 84 80. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 81. Northern Cardinal - 47 ??. Unidentified Duck Species - 36 (distant flocks) III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES, 2 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002) 1. Eastern Garter Snake - 2 (also - one dead) IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES, 2 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002) 1. Northern Leopard Frog - 2 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES, 1 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002) 1. Common Carp - 1 VI. MOTHS/CATERPILLARS: 1 SPECIES, 1 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002) 1. Isabella Tiger Moth - 1 (caterpillar) (Fifth Record on Census & First April Record on Census) Compiler: 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: <listowner...>

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