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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