APRIL 23, 2011 - Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail at Canalway Visitor Center.
TIME: 10:30am-1:00pm TEMP.: 68 COND.: Clouds/sun mix, warm & breezy.
FT.MI.: 2.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager.
I. MAMMALS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
II. BIRDS: 45 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 37 (4 goslings, 2 nests)
2. Mallard - 7 (6m,1f)
3. Double-crested Cormorant - 6
4. Great Blue Heron - 1
5. Green Heron - 1
6. Turkey Vulture - 11
7. Cooper's Hawk - 3 (2m,1f - female on nest incubating)
8. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 nest)
9. Sandhill Crane - 4 (4 birds heading southeast - way up)
10. Spotted Sandpiper - 1
11. Solitary Sandpiper - 1
12. Herring Gull - 10
13. Mourning Dove - 2
14. Chimney Swift - 1
15. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m)
16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (1m,2*)
17. Downy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1f,2*)
18. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*)
19. Northern Flicker - 4 (2m,1f,1*)
20. Eastern Kingbird - 1
21. Blue Jay - 2 (1 on nest)
22. Tree Swallow - 6
23. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3
24. Barn Swallow - 1
25. Black-capped Chickadee - 2
26. Carolina Wren - 1
27. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1?)
28. Hermit Thrush - 1
29. American Robin - 17
30. European Starling - 4
31. Yellow Warbler - 1 (m)
32. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (1m,1?)
33. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)
34. American Tree Sparrow - 1
35. Fox Sparrow - 1
36. Song Sparrow - 7
37. White-throated Sparrow - 5
38. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (f)
39. Northern Cardinal - 7 (6m,1*)
40. Red-winged Blackbird - 12 (m)
41. Common Grackle - 12
42. Brown-headed Cowbird - 9 (5m,4f)
43. House Finch - 2 (m)
44. American Goldfinch - 5 (2m,1f,2*)
45. House Sparrow - 1
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 43
2. Blanding's Turtle - 2
3. Eastern Garter Snake - 2
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1(*)
2. Bullfrog - 4
3. Northern Leopard Frog - 1(*)
V. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 2
2. Spring Azure - 2
3. Mourning Cloak - 1
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
 

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