Date: 9/8/25 3:13 pm From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census
SEPTEMBER 08, 2025 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTE: East Side, West Side, Ottawa-Lucas Rd. to MS6, Crane Creek to Rt. 2, Grimm Prairie, Krause Rd. to Stange Rd. in the morning; Wildlife Drive in the afternoon. TIME: 7:40am - 12:55pm; 2:05pm - 5:30pm TIME AFIELD: 8:40 TEMP.: 48F ~ 68F ~ 67F COND.: Cool early turning sunny with blue skies; warming throughout the day with light breezes; turning partly sunny with no wind in the afternoon. OBS. EAST: Bob Bartolotta, Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Steve Borgis, Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Bob Scheidt, Mark Swelstad, Tony Szilagye, Tracy Wiczer. OBS. OTTAWA-LUCAS RD., MS6, CRANE CREEK to RT. 2, GRIMM PRAIRIE, KRAUSE RD. & STANGE RD.: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Bob Bartolotta, Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES, 37 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
II. BIRDS: 123 SPECIES, 5,179 TOTAL. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)
1. Canada Goose - 253 2. Trumpeter Swan - 60 3. Wood Duck - 158 4. Blue-winged Teal - 49 5. Northern Shoveler - 1 6. Gadwall - 11 7. American Black Duck - 4 8. Mallard - 465 9. Green-winged Teal - 112 10. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 11. Rock Pigeon - 1 12. Mourning Dove - 51 13. Chimney Swift - 3 14. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 10 15. Virginia Rail - 1 16. Sora - 1 17. Common Gallinule - 5 18. Sandhill Crane - 75 19. Black-bellied Plover - 4 20. American Golden-Plover - 2 21. Killdeer - 64 22. Semipalmated Plover - 30 23. Hudsonian Godwit - 1 24. Marbled Godwit - 4 25. Red Knot - 2 (First Record since 2017) 26. Stilt Sandpiper - 6 27. Sanderling - 1 (First Record since 2014) 28. Baird's Sandpiper - 2 29. Least Sandpiper - 26 30. Pectoral Sandpiper - 4 31. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 23 32. Short-billed Dowitcher - 4 33. Long-billed Dowitcher - 2 34. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 35. Greater Yellowlegs - 29 36. Lesser Yellowlegs - 72 37. Wilson's Phalarope - 2 38. Bonaparte's Gull - 18 39. Ring-billed Gull - 204 40. American Herring Gull - 6 41. Caspian Tern - 2 42. Common Tern - 36 43. Forster's Tern - 8 44. Double-crested Cormorant - 49 45. American White Pelican - 211 46. Snowy Egret - 8 47. Green Heron - 5 48. Great Egret - 90 49. Great Blue Heron - 56 50. Turkey Vulture - 17 51. Osprey - 3 52. Northern Harrier - 2 53. Cooper's Hawk - 3 54. Bald Eagle - 16 (9 adult,7 immature) 55. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 56. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 57. Great Horned Owl - 1 58. Belted Kingfisher - 1 59. Red-headed Woodpecker - 7 60. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 61. Downy Woodpecker - 22 62. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 63. Northern Flicker - 18 64. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (Second September Record on Census & New Census High - previous was 1 on twelve other occasions) 65. American Kestrel - 1 66. Peregrine Falcon - 1 67. Eastern Kingbird - 14 68. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 69. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 70. Eastern Phoebe - 24 71. Philadelphia Vireo - 2 72. Warbling Vireo - 43 73. Red-eyed Vireo - 3 74. Blue Jay - 37 75. American Crow - 1 76. Black-capped Chickadee - 10 77. Tufted Titmouse - 1 78. Bank Swallow - 2 79. Tree Swallow - 20 80. Purple Martin - 289 81. Barn Swallow - 49 82. Cedar Waxwing - 7 83. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 84. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 85. Carolina Wren - 5 86. Northern House Wren - 9 87. Gray Catbird - 34 88. Brown Thrasher - 2 89. Northern Mockingbird - 1 90. European Starling - 563 91. Eastern Bluebird - 1 92. Swainson's Thrush - 3 93. Wood Thrush - 2 94. American Robin - 83 95. House Sparrow - 2 96. House Finch - 6 97. Purple Finch - 2 (female with a juvenile along Rt. 2 just south of Crane Creek) 98. American Goldfinch - 48 99. Chipping Sparrow - 1 100. Field Sparrow - 1 101. Song Sparrow - 16 102. Swamp Sparrow - 5 103. Bobolink - 3 104. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,358 105. Common Grackle - 28 106. Ovenbird - 2 107. Black-and-white Warbler - 2 108. Tennessee Warbler - 2 109. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 (Fifth September Record on Census) 110. Nashville Warbler - 2 111. Common Yellowthroat - 21 112. American Redstart - 3 113. Cape May Warbler - 5 114. Magnolia Warbler - 4 115. Bay-breasted Warbler - 7 116. Blackburnian Warbler - 3 117. Yellow Warbler - 2 118. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 119. Blackpoll Warbler - 3 120. Palm Warbler - 2 121. Northern Cardinal - 40 122. Indigo Bunting - 14 123. Dickcissel - 3
???. Unidentified Duck (teal) Species - 1 ???. Unidentified "Peep" Sandpiper Species - 17 ???. Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher Species - 2 ???. Unidentified Warbler Species - 6
III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES, (1 DEAD), 27 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Northern Map Turtle - 3 (Second September Record on Census) 2. Red-eared Turtle - 1 (Fourth September Record on Census) 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 22 4. Northern Brown Snake - 1 (Third September Record on Census & Tied Census High from 11/2015, 06/2019, 07/2019, 09/2020, 11/2022, 09/2023 & 05/2024)
X. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 (dead)
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES, 101 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. American Bullfrog - 7 2. Green Frog - 2 3. Northern Leopard Frog - 92
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES, 120 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Blackstripe Topminnow - 120
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 13 SPECIES, 328 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 10 (New Census High - previous was 9 on 09/2020) 2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3 3. Cabbage Butterfly - 144 4. Clouded Sulphur - 67 5. Orange Sulphur - 6 (Fifth September Record on Census) 6. Southern Dogface - 3 (First September Record on Census) 7. Eastern Tailed-Blue - 4 8. Summer Azure - 1 9. Pearl Crescent - 9 10. Red Admiral - 2 11. Viceroy - 34 12. Monarch - 35 13. Least Skipper - 10
VII. MOTHS/CATERPILLARS: 8 SPECIES, (3 FIRST OF CENSUS), 97 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Green Cloverworm Moth - 5 (Second Record on Census, Second September Record & New Census High - previous was 1 on 09/2022) 2. Chickweed Geometer - 73 (Fifth Record on Census, Second September Record on Census & New Census High - previous was 5 on 09/2024) 3. Forage Looper Moth - 6 (Second September Record on Census) 4. Isabella Tiger Moth - 5 (caterpillars) (New Census High - previous was 2 on 07/2024, 11/2024 & 12/2024) 5. Sod Webworm Moth - 4 (Second Record on Census, Second September Record on Census & Tied Census High from 09/2024) 6. Celery Looper Moth - 1 (New Species on Census - currently at 25 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 04/2002) 7. Yellow Woolly Bear Moth - 2 (caterpillars) (New Species on Census - currently at 26 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 04/2002) 8. Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth - 1 (caterpillar) (New Species on Census - currently at 27 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 04/2002)
VIII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 1 SPECIES, (1 FIRST OF CENSUS). (Recorded since 05/06/2018)
1. Common Green Darner 2. Eastern Pondhawk 3. Widow Skimmer (Fourth September Record on Census) 4. Blue Dasher 5. Eastern Amberwing 6. Common Whitetail (Third September Record on Census) 7. Black Saddlebags 8. Slender Spreadwing (Fourth Record on Census & First September Record on Census) 9. Violet Dancer (New Species on Census - currently at 28 Odonata Species since 05/2018) 10. Familiar Bluet (Fifth September Record on Census) 11. Eastern Forktail
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