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Date: 10/6/25 4:39 pm
From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...>
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census
OCTOBER 05, 2025 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTES: Fox Unit, East Side, West Side, Western Prairies and Henry Marsh in
the morning; Wildlife Drive
in the afternoon until 3:40pm - could not finish Wildlife Drive due to
Youth Teal Hunting.
OBS. FOX UNIT: George Novosel. OBS. EAST: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Al &
Betty Schlecht.
OBS. WEST: Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, David & Kim Myles, George Novosel,
Chris Pierce, Bob Scheidt,
Tony Szilagye, Tracy Wiczer.
OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES & HENRY MARSH: Douglas W. Vogus.
OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Bob Bartolotta, Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Douglas W.
Vogus.
TIME: 7:30am - 12:30pm / 1:35pm - 3:50pm TIME AFIELD: 7:15 TEMP.: 59F ~
83F
COND.: Sunny with blue skies, warming throughout the day.

I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES, 46 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. Eastern Cottontail - 4
2. Woodchuck - 5
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 28 (New Census High - previous was 25 on
01/2020)
4. White-tailed Deer - 9 (1 buck,6 does,2 yearlings)


II. BIRDS: 107 SPECIES, 9,205 TOTAL. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)

1. Canada Goose - 320
2. Trumpeter Swan - 67 (one with yellow neckband "1A2")
3. Wood Duck - 60
4. Blue-winged Teal - 10
5. Northern Shoveler - 6
6. Gadwall - 376
7. American Wigeon - 185
8. American Black Duck - 12
9. Mallard - 610
10. Northern Pintail - 10
11. Green-winged Teal - 686
12. Ruddy Duck - 28
13. Pied-billed Grebe - 3
14. Mourning Dove - 96
15. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
16. Chimney Swift - 2
17. Sora - 1
18. American Coot - 3
19. Sandhill Crane - 48
20. American Golden-Plover - 13
21. Killdeer - 118
22. Semipalmated Plover - 8
23. Marbled Godwit - 4
24. Least Sandpiper - 10
25. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 12
26. Long-billed Dowitcher - 36
27. Wilson's Snipe - 14
28. Greater Yellowlegs - 29
29. Lesser Yellowlegs - 43
30. Bonaparte's Gull - 66
31. Ring-billed Gull - 213
32. American Herring Gull - 4
33. Common Tern - 3
34. Forster's Tern - 15
35. Double-crested Cormorant - 176
36. American White Pelican - 318
37. Great Egret - 69
38. Great Blue Heron - 38
39. Turkey Vulture - 7
40. Northern Harrier - 2
41. Cooper's Hawk - 2
42. Bald Eagle - 19 (8 adult,11 immature)
43. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
44. Great Horned Owl - 1
45. Belted Kingfisher - 5
46. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3
47. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16
48. Downy Woodpecker - 16
49. Hairy Woodpecker - 2
50. Northern Flicker - 45
51. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (First October Record on Census)
52. Eastern Kingbird - 2 (Fifth October Record on Census)
53. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3
54. Eastern Phoebe - 23
55. Blue-headed Vireo - 2
56. Red-eyed Vireo - 2
57. Blue Jay - 79
58. Black-capped Chickadee - 7
59. Tufted Titmouse - 3
60. Tree Swallow - 599
61. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12
62. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7
63. Cedar Waxwing - 8
64. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3
65. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10
66. Brown Creeper - 2
67. Carolina Wren - 13 (Tied Census High from 01/2006)
68. Northern House Wren - 3
69. Winter Wren - 1
70. Gray Catbird - 10
71. Brown Thrasher - 1
72. Northern Mockingbird - 1
73. European Starling - 2,194
74. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1
75. Swainson's Thrush - 11
76. Hermit Thrush - 2
77. American Robin - 107
78. House Sparrow - 19
79. House Finch - 9
80. Purple Finch - 7
81. American Goldfinch - 19
82. Field Sparrow - 1
83. Dark-eyed Junco - 6
84. White-crowned Sparrow - 8
85. White-throated Sparrow - 89
86. Savannah Sparrow - 18
87. Song Sparrow - 15
88. Lincoln's Sparrow - 13
89. Swamp Sparrow - 15
90. Yellow-headed Blackbird - 1 (m) (Second October Record on Census)
91. Bobolink - 2
92. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,663
93. Brown-headed Cowbird - 58
94. Common Grackle - 228
95. Tennessee Warbler - 2
96. Nashville Warbler - 1
97. Common Yellowthroat - 9
98. American Redstart - 1
99. Magnolia Warbler - 4
100. Bay-breasted Warbler - 4
101. Yellow Warbler - 1 (Third October Record on Census)
102. Blackpoll Warbler - 2
103. Palm Warbler - 2
104. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 17
105. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
106. Northern Cardinal - 27
107. Indigo Bunting - 10

??. Unidentified *Catharus* Thrush - 1
??. Unidentified Sparrow Species - 6
??. Unidentified Warbler Species - 4

III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES, 25 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. Northern Map Turtle - 13 (Fifth October Record on Census)
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 8
3. Northern Water Snake - 3
4. Eastern Garter Snake - 1


IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES, 173 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. American Bullfrog - 42
2. Green Frog - 54
3. Northern Leopard Frog - 77


V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES, 184 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. Blackstripe Topminnow - 184 (Third October Record on Census)


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 12 SPECIES, 200 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 2 (Third October Record on Census)
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 46
3. Clouded Sulphur - 74
4. Orange Sulphur - 16
5. Bronze Copper - 20
6. Summer Azure - 1 (Second October Record on Census)
7. Pearl Crescent - 4 (Fifth October Record on Census)
8. Eastern Comma - 3 (Second October Record on Census & Tied Census
High from 09/2021)
9. Mourning Cloak - 1 (First October Record on Census)
10. Viceroy - 16
11. Monarch - 14
12. Least Skipper - 3 (First October Record on Census)


VII. MOTHS/CATERPILLARS: 1 SPECIES, 1 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. Green Cloverworm Moth - 1 (Third Record on Census & First October
Record on Census)


VIII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 7 SPECIES. (Recorded since 05/06/2018)

1. Shadow Darner (Second Record on Census, Second October Record on
Census)
2. Common Green Darner (Fourth October Record on Census)
3. Blue Dasher (Second October Record on Census)
4. Autumn Meadowhawk (Second October Record on Census)
5. Black Saddlebags (First October Record on Census)
6. Fragile Forktail (Fifth Record on Census & First October Record on
Census)
7. Eastern Forktail (Third October Record on Census)


IX. INSECT (of note): 1 SPECIES - KILLED.

1. Spotted Lanternfly - 1 (flew into parking lot at Stange Rd. platform
- eliminated)


Compiler: Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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