MAY 07, 2015 - Birds4Cure Juvenile Diabetes Hike <www.birds4cure.wordpress.com>HIKE: Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath from Navarre north to Canal Fulton.TIME: 7:15am-3:30pm TEMP.: 54-88 COND.: Very hot & sunny.FT.MI.: 16.4 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
   - Woodchuck - 2

   - Eastern Chipmunk - 11
   - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 7 (1 black morph)
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
   - Muskrat - 1
   - Eastern Cottontail - 1
BIRDS: 85 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
   - Canada Goose - 68 (8 goslings,2 nests)

   - Wood Duck - 20 (4m,4f,12 ducklings)
   - Mallard - 27 (12m,5f,10 ducklings)
   - Great Blue Heron - 4
   - Green Heron - 2
   - Turkey Vulture - 9
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m)
   - Killdeer - 3
   - Spotted Sandpiper - 2
   - Solitary Sandpiper - 2
   - Herring Gull - 1
   - Rock Pigeon - 7
   - Mourning Dove - 13
   - Chimney Swift - 22
   - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?)
   - Belted Kingfisher - 2 (*)
   - Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (2m,1f,13*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 10 (1m,3f,6*)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (1f,1*)
   - Northern Flicker - 4 (*)
   - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3
   - Acadian Flycatcher - 2
   - Willow Flycatcher - 1
   - Eastern Phoebe - 5 (1 nest)
   - Great Crested Flycatcher - 4
   - Eastern Kingbird - 3
   - White-eyed Vireo - 1
   - Yellow-throated Vireo - 4
   - Warbling Vireo - 13
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 21
   - Blue Jay - 14
   - American Crow - 5
   - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 22
   - Barn Swallow - 3
   - Carolina Chickadee - 10
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 6
   - Tufted Titmouse - 17
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 (1m,8*)
   - Carolina Wren - 8
   - House Wren - 19
   - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 25 (2m,2f,1?,20*)
   - Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m)
   - Veery - 1
   - Wood Thrush - 14
   - American Robin - 76
   - Gray Catbird - 65
   - European Starling - 36
   - Cedar Waxwing - 1
   - Ovenbird - 1
   - Northern Waterthrush - 6
   - Prothonotary Warbler - 2 (m)
   - Tennessee Warbler - 2 (m)
   - Common Yellowthroat - 16 (m)
   - American Redstart - 2 (m)
   - Northern Parula - 1 (m)
   - Magnolia Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Yellow Warbler - 57 (52m,4f,1*)
   - Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (m)
   - Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Palm Warbler - 2
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 11 (8m,2f,1*)
   - Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (m)
   - Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Eastern Towhee - 9 (8m,1*)
   - Chipping Sparrow - 18
   - Field Sparrow - 7
   - Song Sparrow - 63
   - Swamp Sparrow - 9
   - White-throated Sparrow - 6
   - Scarlet Tanager - 3 (2m,1*)
   - Northern Cardinal - 76 (57m,13f,6*)
   - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 11 (10m,1f)
   - Indigo Bunting - 5 (m)
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 28 (19m,9f)
   - Common Grackle - 13
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 18 (13m,5f)
   - Orchard Oriole - 2 (m)
   - Baltimore Oriole - 24 (21m,2f,1*)
   - Purple Finch - 1 (m)
   - House Finch - 6 (*)
   - American Goldfinch - 35 (21m,4f,4?,6*)
   - House Sparrow - 47
REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.

   - Red-eared Turtle - 8

   - Midland Painted Turtle - 37
   - Eastern Spiny Softshell - 34
AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.

   - Northern Spring Peeper - 2

   - Gray Treefrog - 14
   - Green Frog - many
FISHES: 4 SPECIES.

   - Common Carp - 8

   - Largemouth Bass - 3
   - Bluegill - 11
   - Pumpkinseed - 1
BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES.

   - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1

   - Cabbage Butterfly - 7
   - Clouded Sulphur - 1
   - Red Admiral - 12
   - Wild Indigo Dusky Wing - 2
So, those of you that pledged an amount per bird, we added 11 new species today. They were Cooper's Hawk, Herring Gull, Rock Pigeon, Red-headed Woodpecker, Willow Flycatcher, Veery, Prothonotary Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Swamp Sparrow & Purple Finch. That puts us at 105 species after 2 days. Thank You!

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.






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