Date: 11/2/26 4:24 pm From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census - 11/2026
NOVEMBER 01, 2026 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. TIME: 7:20am - 12:20pm; 1:35pm - 4:30pm TIME AFIELD: 7:55 TEMP.: 48F ~ 65F; 64F ~ 60F COND.: Mostly cloudy early with no wind; turning partly cloudy and then mostly sunny; light breezes from the NE at 11:20am; mostly cloudy in the afternoon; pleasant all day. OBS. EAST: Bob Bartolotta, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. BOSS UNIT & FOX UNIT (parking lots only): Bob Bartolotta, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Susan Brauning, Katie Clink, Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, David & Kim Myles, Doug Nims, George Novosel, Holden Peller, Chris Pierce, Tony Szilagye, Tracy Wiczer. OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES & HENRY MARSH: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Bob Bartolotta, Doug Nims, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE (partial): Susan Brauning, Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, Chris Pierce, Tracy Wiczer.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES, 39 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Woodchuck - 5 (Fifth November Record on Census) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 29 (New Census High - previous was 28 on 10/2025) 3. Common Raccoon - 1 4. White-tailed Deer - 4 (4-pt. buck,3 does)
II. BIRDS: 94 SPECIES, 9,270 TOTAL. (Recorded since 03/02/1969) (NEW NOVEMBER HIGH - HISTORICAL: HIGH (was): 93 (2000) LOW: 54 (1988) AVG.: 78.2 SPECIES)
1. Canada Goose - 357 2. Mute Swan - 1 3. Trumpeter Swan - 217 4. Wood Duck - 53 5. Blue-winged Teal - 11 6. Northern Shoveler - 6 7. Gadwall - 654 8. American Wigeon - 69 9. American Black Duck - 4 10. Mallard - 431 11. Northern Pintail - 18 12. Green-winged Teal - 760 13. Redhead - 2 14. Ring-necked Duck - 32 15. Lesser Scaup - 92 16. Hooded Merganser - 12 17. Ruddy Duck - 8 18. Pied-billed Grebe - 6 19. Mourning Dove - 67 (also one dead floating in the ditch at end of Stange Rd.) 20. American Coot - 35 21. Sandhill Crane - 51 22. Black-bellied Plover - 1 23. Killdeer - 98 24. Hudsonian Godwit - 2 (along Crane Creek floodplain south of MS3) 25. Dunlin - 130 26. Least Sandpiper - 1 27. Pectoral Sandpiper - 10 28. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 7 29. Long-billed Dowitcher - 7 30. Wilson's Snipe - 19 31. Greater Yellowlegs - 36 32. Lesser Yellowlegs - 25 33. Bonaparte's Gull - 124 34. Ring-billed Gull - 237 35. American Herring Gull - 8 36. Double-crested Cormorant - 7 37. American White Pelican - 493 38. Great Egret - 42 39. Great Blue Heron - 33 40. Northern Harrier - 4 41. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 42. Cooper's Hawk - 2 43. Bald Eagle - 21 (18 adult,3 immature) 44. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 45. Great Horned Owl - 3 46. Belted Kingfisher - 2 47. Red-headed Woodpecker - 14 48. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 15 49. Downy Woodpecker - 22 50. Hairy Woodpecker - 6 51. Northern Flicker - 9 52. American Kestrel - 2 53. Merlin - 2 54. White-eyed Vireo - 1 (Second November Record on Census) 55. Blue-headed Vireo - 1 (Third November Record on Census) 56. Blue Jay - 97 57. American Crow - 6 58. Black-capped Chickadee - 10 59. Tufted Titmouse - 1 60. Horned Lark - 10 61. Tree Swallow - 52 62. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 17 63. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 18 64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 65. Brown Creeper - 4 66. Carolina Wren - 12 67. Winter Wren - 2 68. Northern Mockingbird - 2 69. European Starling - 807 70. Eastern Bluebird - 1 71. Hermit Thrush - 5 72. American Robin - 44 73. House Sparrow - 21 74. House Finch - 1 75. Pine Siskin - 21 (Grimm Prairie - New Census High - previous was 12 on 05/2009) 76. American Goldfinch - 43 77. Chipping Sparrow - 1 78. Field Sparrow - 4 79. Fox Sparrow - 1 80. American Tree Sparrow - 19 81. Dark-eyed Junco - 30 82. White-crowned Sparrow - 2 83. White-throated Sparrow - 189 84. Savannah Sparrow - 1 85. Song Sparrow - 57 86. Swamp Sparrow - 27 87. Eastern Towhee - 1 88. Red-winged Blackbird - 2,908 89. Rusty Blackbird - 40 90. Common Grackle - 235 91. Palm Warbler - 1 (Fourth November Record on Census) 92. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7 93. Prairie Warbler - 1 (Sixth Record on Census and first since May of 1979 - First November Record on Census - previously one April Record & four May Records) 94. Northern Cardinal - 45
??. Unidentified Duck Species - 33 (distant) ??. Unidentified Sparrow Species - 2 (fleeting) ??. Unidentified Blackbird Species - 210 (two flocks)
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES, 12 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Northern Map Turtle - 11 (First November Record on Census) 2. Northern Brown Snake - 1 (Third November Record on Census & Tied Census High from 11/2015, 06/2019, 07/2019, 09/2020, 11/2022. 09/2023, 05/2024 & 09/2025)
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES, 21 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. American Bullfrog - 9 2. Green Frog - 2 3. Northern Leopard Frog - 10
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES, 1 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Common Carp - 1
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 9 SPECIES, 26 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 4 2. Clouded Sulphur - 4 3. Orange Sulphur - 6 (Fifth November Record on Census) 4. Bronze Copper - 1 (Third November Record on Census) 5. Pearl Crescent - 4 (Fifth November Record on Census) 6. Eastern Comma - 2 (Third November Record on Census) 7. Painted Lady - 1 (Second November Record on Census) 8. Common Buckeye - 2 (Fourth November Record on Census) 9. Common Checkered Skipper - 2 (Third Record on Census, First November Record on Census & Tied Census High from 09/2018)
VII. MOTHS & CATERPILLARS: 3 SPECIES, (2 FIRST CENSUS RECORD), 4 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Isabella Tiger Moth - 2 (caterpillars only) (Fourth November Record on Census) 2. Ruby Tiger Moth - 1 (caterpillar only) (New Species on Census - currently at 37 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 04/2002) 3. Silver Y Moth - 1 (New Species on Census - currently at 38 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 04/2002)
VIII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 1 SPECIES. (Recorded since 05/06/2018)
1. Autumn Meadowhawk (Fifth November Record on Census)
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