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Date: 7/8/25 4:54 pm
From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...>
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census
JULY 06, 2025 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: East Side, West Side, Western Prairies in the morning; Wildlife
Drive in the afternoon.
TIME: 7:20am - 11:45am; 12:40am - 2:45pm TIME AFIELD: 7:30 TEMP.: 73F ~
90F
COND.: Warm in the morning, quickly turning hot, humid, muggy and buggy for
the rest of the day;
sunny all day with breezes from the southwest.
OBS. EAST: Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Mary Applegate,
Katie Clink, Jennifer Kuehn,
Donna Kuhn, George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Bob Scheidt, Mark Swelstad, Tony
Szilagye, Tracy Wiczer.
OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES & HENRY MARSH: Douglas W. Vogus.
OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, Jim Reyda, Bob Scheidt,
Mark Swelstad,
Douglas W. Vogus, Tracy Wiczer.

I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES, 67 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. Eastern Cottontail - 38
2. Woodchuck - 12
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 10
4. Common Muskrat - 1
5. White-tailed Deer - 6 (1 buck,4 does,1 fawn)


II. BIRDS: 88 SPECIES, 3,242 TOTAL. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)

1. Canada Goose - 514
2. Trumpeter Swan - 157 (2 late cygnets)
3. Wood Duck - 29
4. Blue-winged Teal - 5
5. Mallard - 54
6. Green-winged Teal - 8
7. Pied-billed Grebe - 6
8. Mourning Dove - 20
9. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4
10. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1
11. Common Gallinule - 14
12. Sandhill Crane - 46 (one almost full-grown young)
13. Black-necked Stilt - 6 (Second July Record on Census & New Census
High - previous was 5 on 07/2024, 08/2024, 05/2025 & 06/2025)
14. Killdeer - 117
15. Stilt Sandpiper - 1
16. Dunlin - 1
17. Least Sandpiper - 46
18. Short-billed Dowitcher - 32
19. American Woodcock - 1
20. Wilson's Snipe - 1
21. Spotted Sandpiper - 8
22. Solitary Sandpiper - 1
23. Greater Yellowlegs - 7
24. Lesser Yellowlegs - 33
25. Ring-billed Gull - 2
26. Caspian Tern - 2
27. Common Tern - 10
28. Double-crested Cormorant - 5
29. American White Pelican - 33
30. Least Bittern - 1
31. Snowy Egret - 6
32. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2
33. Great Egret - 95
34. Great Blue Heron - 55
35. Turkey Vulture - 12
36. Osprey - 2 (Third July Record on Census)
37. Bald Eagle - 9 (3 adult,5 immature,1 juvenile still in nest)
38. Red-tailed Hawk - 1
39. Great Horned Owl - 2 (1 immature)
40. Red-headed Woodpecker - 6
41. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
42. Downy Woodpecker - 11
43. Northern Flicker - 11
44. American Kestrel - 1
45. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature) (Second July Record on Census)
46. Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
47. Eastern Kingbird - 29
48. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6
49. Willow Flycatcher - 12
50. Eastern Phoebe - 3
51. Warbling Vireo - 24
52. Red-eyed Vireo - 4
53. Blue Jay - 16
54. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
55. Tufted Titmouse - 1
56. Horned Lark - 3
57. Tree Swallow - 477
58. Purple Martin - 137
59. Barn Swallow - 39
60. Cedar Waxwing - 8
61. White-breasted Nuthatch - 9
62. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4
63. Carolina Wren - 10
64. Northern House Wren - 41
65. Sedge Wren - 1
66. Marsh Wren - 13
67. Gray Catbird - 25
68. European Starling - 36
69. American Robin - 55
70. House Sparrow - 9
71. House Finch - 3
72. American Goldfinch - 27
73. Chipping Sparrow - 4
74. Field Sparrow - 5
75. Song Sparrow - 73
76. Swamp Sparrow - 13
77. Eastern Meadowlark - 3
78. Orchard Oriole - 3
79. Baltimore Oriole - 3
80. Red-winged Blackbird - 554
81. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8
82. Common Grackle - 24
83. Prothonotary Warbler - 7
84. Common Yellowthroat - 55
85. Yellow Warbler - 16
86. Northern Cardinal - 40
87. Indigo Bunting - 36
88. Dickcissel - 17 (9 in Grimm Prairie, 2 at Henry Marsh, 6 in Stange
Prairie)


III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES, 22 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. Common Snapping Turtle - 2
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 19
3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1


IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES, 14 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. American Bullfrog - 7
2. Green Frog - 6
3. Northern Leopard Frog - 1


V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES, 10 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. Blackstripe Topminnow - 9 (Fourth July Record on Census)
2. Largemouth Bass - 1 (Fourth July Record on Census)


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 11 SPECIES, (1 NEW TO CENSUS), 61 TOTAL. (Recorded since
04/07/2002)

1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 2
2. Spicebush Swallowtail - 1 (First July Record on Census)
3. Cabbage Butterfly - 29
4. Clouded Sulphur - 2
5. Summer Azure - 2
6. Pearl Crescent - 1
7. Viceroy - 2
8. Northern Pearly Eye - 1 (Second July Record on Census)
9. Monarch - 19
10. Least Skipper - 1
11. European Skipper - 1 (corner of Krause Rd. and Stange Rd. - New
Species on Census - currently at 45 Butterfly Species since 04/2002)


VII. MOTHS/CATERPILLARS: 3 SPECIES, (2 NEW TO CENSUS), 14 TOTAL. (Recorded
since 04/07/2002)

1. Milkweed Tussock Moth (caterpillar only) - 1 (Third Record on Census
& First July Record on Census)
2. Topiary Grass-veneer Moth - 1 (Grimm Prairie - New Species on Census
- currently at 21 Moth Species since 04/2002)
3. Fall Webworm Moth (caterpillars only) - 12 (New Species on Census -
currently at 22 Moth Species since 04/2002)


VIII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 9 SPECIES. (Recorded since 05/06/2018)

1. Common Green Darner
2. Halloween Pennant
3. Eastern Pondhawk
4. Widow Skimmer
5. Blue Dasher
6. Wandering Glider (First July Record on Census)
7. Eastern Amberwing
8. Common Whitetail (Fifth July Record on Census)
9. Black Saddlebags


Compiler: Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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