Date: 11/3/25 2:19 pm From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Census
NOVEMBER 02, 2025 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: East Side, West Side, and Western Prairies in the morning; Wildlife Drive in the afternoon. OBS. EAST: Bob Bartolotta, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Anne Albert, Jim Albert, Steven Albert, Mary Applegate, Susan Brauning, Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, David & Kim Myles, George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Bob Scheidt, Tony Szilagye, Tracy Wiczer. OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Bob Bartolotta, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. TIME: 7:20am - 12:45pm; 1:50pm - 4:40pm TIME AFIELD: 8:15 TEMP.: 30F ~ 55F ~ 53F COND.: Chilly, cloudy and calm early, turning partly sunny at 10:30am; mostly sunny the rest of the day with little to no wind; water levels very low - many exposed mudflats; Lake Erie water heading back up Crane Creek in the late afternoon.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES, 44 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Eastern Cottontail - 1 2. Woodchuck - 1 (Fourth November Record on Census) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 27 4. Common Muskrat - 1 5. Common Raccoon - 1 (Fifth November Record on Census) 6. White-tailed Deer - 13 (8-pt. buck,6-pt. buck,5-pt. buck,9 does,1 yearling)
II. BIRDS: 88 SPECIES, 15,506 TOTAL. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)
1. Canada Goose - 577 2. Trumpeter Swan - 209 3. Tundra Swan - 6 4. Wood Duck - 44 5. Blue-winged Teal - 8 6. Northern Shoveler - 48 7. Gadwall - 997 8. American Wigeon - 61 9. American Black Duck - 65 10. Mallard - 927 11. Northern Pintail - 17 12. Green-winged Teal - 414 13. Ring-necked Duck - 8 14. Bufflehead - 7 15. Hooded Merganser - 19 16. Ruddy Duck - 2 17. Pied-billed Grebe - 6 18. Mourning Dove - 37 19. American Coot - 6 20. Sandhill Crane - 99 21. Black-bellied Plover - 5 22. American Golden-Plover - 11 23. Killdeer - 37 24. Dunlin - 655 25. Pectoral Sandpiper - 6 26. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 8 (Fifth November Record on Census) 27. Long-billed Dowitcher - 41 28. Wilson's Snipe - 12 29. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 (at the mouth of Crane Creek in the afternoon - Third November Record on Census) 30. Greater Yellowlegs - 21 31. Lesser Yellowlegs - 8 32. Bonaparte's Gull - 107 33. Ring-billed Gull - 244 34. American Herring Gull - 3 35. Double-crested Cormorant - 8 36. American White Pelican - 223 37. Great Egret - 30 38. Great Blue Heron - 50 39. Northern Harrier - 3 40. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 41. Cooper's Hawk - 5 42. Bald Eagle - 20 (14 adult,6 immature) 43. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 44. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) 45. Great Horned Owl - 1 (being dive-bombed and chased by an immature male Cooper's Hawk in woodlot at end of Stange Rd.) 46. Belted Kingfisher - 3 47. Red-headed Woodpecker - 4 48. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 49. Downy Woodpecker - 22 50. Hairy Woodpecker - 6 51. Northern Flicker - 16 52. American Kestrel - 2 53. Northern Shrike - 1 54. Blue Jay - 55 55. Black-capped Chickadee - 8 56. Tufted Titmouse - 5 57. Horned Lark - 3 58. Tree Swallow - 178 59. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 60. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 14 61. Cedar Waxwing - 5 62. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 63. Brown Creeper - 6 64. Carolina Wren - 3 65. Winter Wren - 2 66. Gray Catbird - 1 (Fourth November Record on Census) 67. European Starling - 831 68. Eastern Bluebird - 5 69. Hermit Thrush - 4 70. American Robin - 44 71. House Sparrow - 18 72. House Finch - 1 73. American Goldfinch - 287 (250-plus in Grimm Prairie feeding on Jerusalem artichoke seedheads) 74. Chipping Sparrow - 4 75. Field Sparrow - 5 76. Fox Sparrow - 6 77. American Tree Sparrow - 18 78. Dark-eyed Junco - 41 79. White-crowned Sparrow - 6 80. White-throated Sparrow - 114 81. Savannah Sparrow - 4 (all in Stange Prairie) 82. Song Sparrow - 60 83. Swamp Sparrow - 37 84. Red-winged Blackbird - 8,353 85. Rusty Blackbird - 108 86. Common Grackle - 27 87. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 45 88. Northern Cardinal - 43
??. Unidentified Duck Species - 17 ??. Unidentified Sparrow Species - 10
III. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES, 3 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. American Bullfrog - 1 2. Green Frog - 1 (Fifth November Record on Census) 3. Northern Leopard Frog - 1 (Fifth November Record on Census)
IV. FISHES: 1 SPECIES, 103 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Blackstripe Topminnow - 103 (Third November Record on Census)
V. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES, 6 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 2 2. Bronze Copper - 4 (Second November Record on Census)
VI. MOTHS/CATERPILLARS: 2 SPECIES, (1 FIRST OF CENSUS), 42 TOTAL.
1. Isabella Tiger Moth (caterpillars) - 41 (Third November Record on Census & New Census High - previous was 5 on 09/2025) 2. Zebra Caterpillar Moth (caterpillar) - 1 (New Species on Census - currently at 28 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 04/07/2002)
VII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 1 SPECIES. (Recorded since 05/06/2018)
1. Autumn Meadowhawk (Fourth November Record on Census)
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