Date: 3/2/26 3:34 pm From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census
MARCH 01, 2026 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: East Side, West Side, Western Prairies, Henry Marsh, and Fox Unit in the morning; Wildlife Drive (except where closed for eagle nesting) in the afternoon. TIME: 7:30am - 12:10pm; 12:55pm - 2:40pm TIME AFIELD: 6:25 TEMP.: 21F ~ 30F COND.: Cold early with a brisk north wind - windchill making it feel like 8F; partly sunny turning mostly sunny; no snow cover; all impoundments just starting to lose ice; Lake Erie open. OBS. EAST: Bob Bartolotta, Jim Koppin, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Susan Brauning, Katie Clink, Donna Kuhn, David Myles, George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Mark Swelstad, Tracy Wiczer. OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES, HENRY MARSH & FOX UNIT: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Bob Bartolotta, Jim Koppin, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES, (1 DEAD), 9 TOTAL MAMMALS. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 2. White-footed Mouse - 3 3. Common Muskrat - 2 4. American Mink - 1 (Henry Marsh)
X. Virginia Opossum - 1 (dead in the woods north of Henry Marsh)
II. BIRDS: 59 SPECIES, 5,681 TOTAL BIRDS. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)
1. Canada Goose - 772 2. Trumpeter Swan - 172 (one with yellow neckband "1A2") 3. Tundra Swan - 1,497 4. Northern Shoveler - 4 5. Gadwall - 24 6. American Wigeon - 5 7. American Black Duck - 37 8. Mallard - 171 9. Northern Pintail - 67 10. Green-winged Teal - 58 11. Canvasback - 126 12. Redhead - 626 13. Ring-necked Duck - 25 14. Greater Scaup - 230 (New Census High - previous was 150 on 04/1985) 15. Lesser Scaup - 317 16. Bufflehead - 2 17. Common Goldeneye - 39 18. Hooded Merganser - 10 19. Common Merganser - 144 20. Mourning Dove - 14 21. Sandhill Crane - 65 22. Killdeer - 2 (pair together flying north over Krause Rd.) 23. Ring-billed Gull - 418 24. American Herring Gull - 21 25. American White Pelican - 278 (Second March Record on Census) 26. Great Blue Heron - 1 27. Northern Harrier - 3 28. Cooper's Hawk - 2 29. Bald Eagle - 61 (43 adult,18 immature) (Bald Eagles were in the sky or on nests everywhere!) 30. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 31. Great Horned Owl - 3 32. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 33. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 34. Downy Woodpecker - 14 35. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 36. Northern Flicker - 1 37. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (calling in the North Woods - D. Myles & K. Clink - Third March Record on Census) 38. American Kestrel - 1 39. Blue Jay - 15 40. Black-capped Chickadee - 4 41. Horned Lark - 6 42. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 43. Brown Creeper - 3 44. Carolina Wren - 3 45. European Starling - 62 46. Hermit Thrush - 1 (Second March Record on Census) 47. American Robin - 3 48. House Sparrow - 3 49. House Finch - 2 50. American Goldfinch - 29 51. Fox Sparrow - 1 52. American Tree Sparrow - 58 53. Dark-eyed Junco - 19 54. White-throated Sparrow - 2 55. Song Sparrow - 5 56. Red-winged Blackbird - 201 57. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 58. Common Grackle - 17 59. Northern Cardinal - 16
??. Unidentified Duck Species - 4
III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES, 1 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Northern Leopard Frog - 1 (heard at Henry Marsh - Third March Record on Census)
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