Date: 6/2/25 2:51 pm From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census
JUNE 01, 2025 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: East Side, West Side, Western Prairies and Henry Marsh in the morning; Wildlife Drive in the afternoon. OBS. EAST: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Susan Brauning, Donna Kuhn, Doug Nims, George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Jim Reyda (North Woods & South Woods only), Mark Swelstad, Tracy Wiczer. OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES & HENRY MARSH: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Bob Bartolotta, Doug Nims, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. TIME: 7:30am - 12:00pm; 1:05pm - 3:20pm TIME AFIELD: 6:40 TEMP.: 46F ~ 65F COND.: Cool early with hazy sun; winds N/NW; partly sunny and warmer in the afternoon.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES, 74 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Eastern Cottontail - 42 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 1 (observed by J. Reyda at the maintenance yard - Second Record on Census, First June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 08/2020) 3. Woodchuck - 9 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 13 5. American Beaver - 1 (Third June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 19 other occasions) 6. Common Muskrat - 2 7. White-tailed Deer - 6
II. BIRDS: 96 SPECIES, 3,725 TOTAL. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)
1. Canada Goose - 503 2. Mute Swan - 6 3. Trumpeter Swan - 186 (160 adults & 26 cygnets in groups of 2,3,4,5,6 & 6) 4. Wood Duck - 83 5. Blue-winged Teal - 4 6. Gadwall - 3 7. Mallard - 116 8. Redhead - 1 (male on East Side - Sixth June Record on Census) 9. Pied-billed Grebe - 7 10. Mourning Dove - 28 11. Chimney Swift - 1 12. Sora - 1 13. Common Gallinule - 16 14. American Coot - 2 15. Sandhill Crane - 34 (2 colts) 16. Black-necked Stilt - 5 (Second June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 07/2024, 08/2024 & 05/2025) 17. Killdeer - 41 18. Semipalmated Plover - 26 19. Dunlin - 139 20. Least Sandpiper - 3 21. White-rumped Sandpiper - 1 22. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 86 23. Spotted Sandpiper - 6 24. Ring-billed Gull - 16 25. American Herring Gull - 4 26. Common Tern - 1 27. Double-crested Cormorant - 39 28. American White Pelican - 20 29. Least Bittern - 1 30. Snowy Egret - 6 31. Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 32. Green Heron - 1 33. Great Egret - 123 34. Great Blue Heron - 59 35. Turkey Vulture - 7 36. Osprey - 2 37. Cooper's Hawk - 1 38. Bald Eagle - 30 (14 adult,13 immature,3 juvenile) 39. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 40. Belted Kingfisher - 1 41. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 42. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 43. Downy Woodpecker - 5 44. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 45. Northern Flicker - 15 46. American Kestrel - 1 47. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6 48. Eastern Kingbird - 40 49. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6 50. Alder Flycatcher - 1 51. Willow Flycatcher - 24 52. Warbling Vireo - 63 53. Red-eyed Vireo - 6 54. Blue Jay - 12 55. Black-capped Chickadee - 1 56. Tufted Titmouse - 1 57. Horned Lark - 1 58. Tree Swallow - 344 59. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 5 60. Purple Martin - 108 61. Barn Swallow - 37 62. Cedar Waxwing - 32 63. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 64. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 65. Carolina Wren - 6 66. Northern House Wren - 47 67. Sedge Wren - 1 (east side of Pool 9 on the Wildlife Drive just before Veler Rd.) 68. Marsh Wren - 12 69. Gray Catbird - 34 70. Brown Thrasher - 1 71. European Starling - 90 72. Unidentified *Catharus* Thrush - 1 73. American Robin - 67 74. House Sparrow - 11 75. House Finch - 2 76. American Goldfinch - 13 77. Chipping Sparrow - 4 78. White-throated Sparrow - 1 (heard singing by J. Reyda & D. Vogus along hedgerows of Ottawa-Lucas Rd. on Wildlife Drive just before exit - First June Record on Census) 79. Henslow's Sparrow - 1 (singing in NE corner of Grimm Prairie) 80. Savannah Sparrow - 3 81. Song Sparrow - 55 82. Swamp Sparrow - 6 83. Eastern Meadowlark - 4 84. Orchard Oriole - 2 85. Baltimore Oriole - 11 86. Red-winged Blackbird - 552 87. Brown-headed Cowbird - 32 88. Common Grackle - 68 89. Northern Waterthrush - 1 90. Prothonotary Warbler - 6 91. Common Yellowthroat - 40 92. American Redstart - 1 93. Yellow Warbler - 257 94. Northern Cardinal - 38 95. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 96. Indigo Bunting - 20
??. Unidentified *Empidonax* Flycatcher - 2
III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES, 91 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Northern Map Turtle - 51 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 34 3. Blanding's Turtle - 1 (Fourth June Record on Census) 4. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1 5. Northern Water Snake - 4
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES, 20 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Gray Treefrog - 1 (East Side - Second Record on Census, First June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 05/2012) 2. American Bullfrog - 19
V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES, 20 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Common Carp - 1 2. Blackstripe Topminnow - 19 (Second June Record on Census)
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES, 6 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
VII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 1 SPECIES, (1 NEW TO CENSUS), 1 TOTAL. (Recorded since 05/06/2018)
1. Unicorn Clubtail - 1 (found and photographed by D. Vogus in Stange Prairie - New Odonata Species on Census - currently at 27 Species since 05/06/2018)
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