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Date: 12/8/25 3:36 pm
From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...>
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census
DECEMBER 07, 2025 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS.
ROUTE: East Side, West Side and Western Prairies in the morning; Wildlife
Drive in the afternoon.
TIME: 7:15am - 11:50am; 12:45pm - 2:55pm TIME AFIELD: 6:45 TEMP.: 29F ~
32F
COND.: Gray and overcast with a low ceiling and poor visibility the entire
day; light snow all morning;
all impoundments frozen except for a couple small pockets in MS4 and and a
few open leads near
the mouth of Crane Creek; Lake Erie open and very low.
OBS. EAST: Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht.
OBS. WEST: Susan Brauning, Katie Clink, Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, David &
Kim Myles,
George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Bob Scheidt, Tracy Wiczer.
OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES: Douglas W. Vogus.
OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Bob Bartolotta, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES, 41 TOTAL (Recorded since 04/07/2002)

1. Eastern Cottontail - 3
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 25
3. Common Muskrat - 1
4. White-tailed Deer - 12 (6-pt. buck,7 does,3yearlings,2 unknown)


II. BIRDS: 55 SPECIES, 3,640 TOTAL BIRDS. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)

1. Canada Goose - 898
2. Trumpeter Swan - 147
3. Tundra Swan - 1,177
4. Gadwall - 5
5. American Wigeon - 1
6. American Black Duck - 16
7. Mallard - 225
8. Green-winged Teal - 1
9. Common Goldeneye - 3
10. Hooded Merganser - 3
11. Common Merganser - 20
12. Red-breasted Merganser - 1
13. Mourning Dove - 6
14. Sandhill Crane - 113
15. Killdeer - 3
16. Wilson's Snipe - 1
17. Ring-billed Gull - 177
18. American Herring Gull - 26
19. Great Blue Heron - 45
20. Northern Harrier - 4 (two were scavenging a dead Canada Goose in
the soybean field east of Grimm Prairie)
21. Cooper's Hawk - 2
22. Bald Eagle - 68 (31 adult,37 immature)
23. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
24. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) (peering out of the barn owl
hole in the blue goose barn)
25. Great Horned Owl - 1
26. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
27. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
28. Downy Woodpecker - 17
29. Hairy Woodpecker - 4
30. Northern Flicker - 4
31. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (First December Record on Census)
32. American Kestrel - 2
33. Northern Shrike - 1
34. Blue Jay - 32
35. Black-capped Chickadee - 13
36. Tufted Titmouse - 2
37. Horned Lark - 15
38. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14
39. Brown Creeper - 2
40. Carolina Wren - 5
41. Gray Catbird - 1 (Second December Record on Census)
42. European Starling - 66
43. Hermit Thrush - 1 (Fourth December Record on Census)
44. American Robin - 1
45. House Sparrow - 7
46. American Goldfinch - 66
47. Lapland Longspur - 20 (in with the Horned Larks in gravel lot at
corner of Veler Rd. and Rt. 2)
48. Fox Sparrow - 2
49. American Tree Sparrow - 254
50. Dark-eyed Junco - 21
51. White-throated Sparrow - 19
52. Savannah Sparrow - 3 (all together in Stange Prairie - Third
December Record on Census)
53. Song Sparrow - 25
54. Swamp Sparrow - 6
55. Northern Cardinal - 26

??. Unidentified Duck Species - 53 (poor visibility)
??. Unidentified Sparrow Species - 2 (fleeting glimpses)

Compiler: Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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