Date: 1/5/26 4:08 pm From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census
JANUARY 04, 2026 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: East Side, West Side, Western Prairies & Henry Marsh in the morning; Wildlife Drive in the afternoon. TIME: 7:20am - 11:35am; 1:15pm - 4:15pm TIME AFIELD: 7:15 TEMP.: 24F ~ 30F COND.: Cloudy all day with light NW winds; two-inches of snow cover; all impoundments frozen; Lake Erie frozen except for a few small off-shore leads. OBS. EAST: Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Jim & Anne Albert, Steven Albert, Mary Applegate, Tom & Paula Bartlett, Katie Clink, Sara Davis, Vera Davis, Donna Kuhn, David & Kim Myles, George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Mark Swelstad, Tony Szilagye, Tracy Wiczer. OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES & HENRY MARSH: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Bob Bartolotta, Jim Koppin, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES, 28 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Virginia Opossum - 1 2. Eastern Cottontail - 1 3. Woodchuck - 1 (First January Record on Census) 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 16 5. White-footed Mouse - 1 6. Common Raccoon - 1 7. White-tailed Deer - 7 (3-pt. buck,9-pt. buck,5 does)
II. BIRDS: 48 SPECIES, 2,670 TOTAL. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)
1. Canada Goose - 211 2. Trumpeter Swan - 61 3. Tundra Swan - 1,274 4. American Black Duck - 5 5. Mallard - 35 6. Common Goldeneye - 3 7. Mourning Dove - 87 8. Sandhill Crane - 164 9. Ring-billed Gull - 65 10. American Herring Gull - 6 11. Great Blue Heron - 43 12. Northern Harrier - 8 13. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 14. Cooper's Hawk - 3 15. Bald Eagle - 38 (24 adult,14 immature) 16. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 17. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) 18. Great Horned Owl - 3 19. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 20. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 21. Downy Woodpecker - 17 22. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 23. Northern Flicker - 3 24. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (Second January Record on Census) 25. Northern Shrike - 1 (on Wildlife Drive bordering Metzger Marsh - bird was caught and killed by an immature male Cooper's Hawk) 26. Blue Jay - 36 27. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 28. Tufted Titmouse - 1 29. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 30. Brown Creeper - 2 31. Carolina Wren - 4 32. Winter Wren - 1 33. European Starling - 105 34. American Robin - 1 35. House Sparrow - 2 36. House Finch - 1 37. American Goldfinch - 36 38. Snow Bunting - 112 39. American Tree Sparrow - 179 40. Dark-eyed Junco - 21 41. White-throated Sparrow - 19 42. Savannah Sparrow - 2 (Stange Prairie) 43. Song Sparrow - 22 44. Swamp Sparrow - 7 45. Red-winged Blackbird - 10 46. Brown-headed Cowbird - 11 47. Rusty Blackbird - 1 48. Northern Cardinal - 40
??. Unidentified Duck Species - 2 (distant - over Lake Erie)
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