MAY 10, 2007 - Magee Marsh boardwalk & Metzger Marsh mudflats (much appreciated to those in charge now that the ducks have moved on - unfortunately the fog moved in!)
NOTE: list includes birds seen up & back from Akron.
TIME: 4:45am-5:15pm TEMP.: 62-59-80 COND.: Soupy fog on the way up - my knuckles are no longer white (hey - here comes an ambulance - but from which way?) - warming throughout - beautiful day. VEH.MI.: 253.0 FT.MI.: 1.75 OBS.: Doug W. Vogus, Jim Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
1. Woodchuck - 2
2. Eastern Chipmunk - 2
3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1
4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
5. Muskrat - 1
6. Eastern Cottontail - 1
7. White-tailed Deer - 1 (?)
II. BIRDS: 105 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen)
1. Canada Goose - 135 (67 goslings)
2. Mute Swan - 1 (Sandusky Bay)
3. Wood Duck - 6 (4m,1f,1*)
4. Mallard - 17 (9m,5f,2?,1*)
5. Pied-billed Grebe - 2
6. Double-crested Cormorant - 9
7. Great Blue Heron - 8
8. Great Egret - 19
9. Snowy Egret - 2 (MM causeway)
10. Green Heron - 6
11. Black-crowned Night Heron - 2
12. Turkey Vulture - 24 (most up & back)
13. Bald Eagle - 3 (immature)
14. Red-tailed Hawk - 9 (6 up & back)
15. American Kestrel - 1 (m)
16. Sora - 1
17. American Coot - 1
18. Semipalmated Plover - 10
19. Killdeer - 22
20. Greater Yellowlegs - 1 (Rt. 2 mudflats)
21. Lesser Yellowlegs - 15
22. Solitary Sandpiper - 2
23. Spotted Sandpiper - 3
24. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 76
25. Least Sandpiper - 36
26. Dunlin - 12
27. Bonaparte's Gull - 1
28. Ring-billed Gull - 3
29. Caspian Tern - 1
30. Common Tern - 4
31. Rock Pigeon - 3 (on way back)
32. Mourning Dove - 13
33. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray-phase)
34. Common Nighthawk - 1
35. Chimney Swift - 7
36. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?)
37. Downy Woodpecker - 3 (1f,2*)
38. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (? - on way home along Yellow Creek Rd.)
39. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
40. Willow Flycatcher - 2
41. Least Flycatcher - 4
42. Eastern Phoebe - 1
43. Eastern Kingbird - 4
44. Warbling Vireo - 10
45. Philadelphia Vireo - 2
46. Red-eyed Vireo - 2
47. Blue Jay - 18
48. American Crow - 2 (on way home)
49. Horned Lark - 2
50. Purple Martin - 7
51. Tree Swallow - 10
52. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
53. Cliff Swallow - 4 (Rt. 2 at Huron River)
54. Barn Swallow - 23 (most on way home)
55. Carolina Wren - 2
56. House Wren - 6
57. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 9 (?)
58. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m - along MM breakwall)
59. Veery - 2
60. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1
61. Swainson's Thrush - 2
62. Wood Thrush - 1
63. American Robin - 56 (2 nests,1 nest with 2 young)
64. Gray Catbird - 15
65. Brown Thrasher - 2
66. European Starling - 128 (most along highways on way home)
67. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m)
68. Golden-winged Warbler - 1 (f)
69. Tennessee Warbler - 8 (7m,1f)
70. Nashville Warbler - 3 (2m,1f)
71. Northern Parula - 3 (m)
72. Yellow Warbler - 27 (21m,4f,2?)
73. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 20 (17m,3f)
74. Magnolia Warbler - 31 (25m,6f)
75. Cape May Warbler - 4 (m)
76. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 7 (6m,1f)
77. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 (f)
78. Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 (m)
79. Blackburnian Warbler - 5 (2m,3f)
80. Palm Warbler - 8
81. Bay-breasted Warbler - 9 (7m,2f)
82. Blackpoll Warbler - 3 (m)
83. Black-and-white Warbler - 12 (4m,8f)
84. American Redstart - 9 (6m,2 second-year m,1 f)
85. Ovenbird - 3
86. Northern Waterthrush - 2
87. Common Yellowthroat - 9 (7m,2f)
88. Wilson's Warbler - 5 (m)
89. Canada Warbler - 5 (4m,1f)
90. Chipping Sparrow - 6
91. Song Sparrow - 14
92. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
93. Swamp Sparrow - 5
94. White-throated Sparrow - 12
95. White-crowned Sparrow - 7
96. Northern Cardinal - 6 (3m,1f,2*)
97. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (m)
98. Indigo Bunting - 1 (m)
99. Red-winged Blackbird - 93 (82m,11f - most up & back)
100. Eastern Meadowlark - 1
101. Common Grackle - 81 (4 nests - most up & back)
102. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (6m,2f)
103. Baltimore Oriole - 11 (9m,2f)
104. American Goldfinch - 4 (3m,1f)
105. House Sparrow - 18
(also reported from MMBW - Mourning, Kentucky)
III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 2
3. Eastern Box Turtle - 1
4. Northern Water Snake - 2
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIE.
1. Bullfrog - 2 (*)
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIE.
1. Common Carp - 1
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES.
1. Tiger Swallowtail - 3
2. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1
3. Cabbage White - 5
4. UNID. Sulphur - 2
5. Red Admiral - 1
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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