APR. 21, 2007 - Cleveland Metro Parks Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation Towpath Trail - Rockside Rd. north to Canalway Visitor Center connector trail & back.
TIME: 8:00am-11:50am TEMP.: 40-72 COND.: Cool early, warming throughout; warm, sunny, blue skies & cloudless; beautiful. FT.MI.: 7.6 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 1
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
II. BIRDS: 39 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen)
1. Canada Goose - 43 (3 birds on nests)
2. Mallard - 16 (15m,1f)
3. Double-crested Cormorant - 1
4. Great Blue Heron - 8
5. Turkey Vulture - 4
6. Red-tailed Hawk - 1
7. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (one of the I-480 bridge pair)
8. Killdeer - 13
9. Greater Yellowlegs - 1
10. Spotted Sandpiper - 1
11. Bonaparte's Gull - 12 (1 flock following Cuyahoga River north to Lake Erie)
12. Ring-billed Gull - 7
13. Rock Pigeon - 12
14. Mourning Dove - 9
15. Chimney Swift - 1
16. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2m,1f)
17. Downy Woodpecker - 1 (*)
18. Northern Flicker - 7 (1m,1f,5*)
19. Eastern Phoebe - 1
20. Blue Jay - 5
21. American Crow - 2
22. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4
23. Barn Swallow - 4
24. Tufted Titmouse - 1
25. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (1?,1*)
26. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (?)
27. American Robin - 47 (2 nests being built)
28. Northern Mockingbird - 1
29. European Starling - 24
30. Chipping Sparrow - 3
31. Savannah Sparrow - 3
32. Song Sparrow - 20
33. Northern Cardinal - 11 (8m,2f,1*)
34. Red-winged Blackbird - 31 (25m,6f)
35. Common Grackle - 29 (3 nests being built)
36. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 (8m,4f)
37. House Finch - 4 (2m,2*)
28. American Goldfinch - 28 (15m,4f,4?,5*)
29. House Sparrow - 27
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIE.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 61
IV. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 14
2. Bluegill - 7
V. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage White - 1
2. Unidentified 'blue' - 1
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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