Did a loop from here in Akron out through Medina and Lorain Counties before ending up back at Firestone Metro Park in Akron.
  TIME: 6:45am - 2:15pm TEMP.: 35-43-39 COND.: Overcast and calm most of the day, partly sunny by the time I got to Firestone. So this is winter, huh?
  VEH. MI.: 158.8 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus
     I ended up with 44 species for the day and I'll just list the highlights at each stop and won't bore anyone with my pigeon, starling, house sparrow totals.
  CALEY RESERVATION
  1. Canada Goose - 53
  2. Herring Gull - 1
  3. Long-eared Owl - 3
  4. Northern Flicker - 1
  5. Downy Woodpecker - 1
  6. Blue Jay - 1
  7. American Crow - 1
  8. Black-capped Chickadee - 1
  9. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2
  10. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
  11. American Robin - 1
  12. American Tree Sparrow - 3
  13. Dark-eyed Junco - 7
  14. American Goldfinch - 2

  WELLINGTON UPGROUND RESERVOIR
  1. Snow Goose - 5 (3 blue, 2 white)
  2. Canada Goose - 214
  3. Canvasback - 9 (3m,6f)
  4. Redhead - 1 (m)
  5. Ring-necked Duck - about 80
  6. Lesser Scaup - about 200
  7. Bufflehead - 5 (2m,3f)
  8. Ruddy Duck - 41
  9. American Coot - 204
  10. Pied-billed Grebe - 4

  FINDLEY STATE PARK (very quiet here, not much moving at all)
  1. Canada Goose - 16

  LORAIN & MEDINA COUNTY BACKROADS - heading back east
  1. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
  2. American Kestrel - 6 (2m,2f,2?)
  3. Northern Harrier - 1 (f)
  4. Horned Lark - about 60
     The harrier was along Spencer Mills Rd. and kicked up 2 flocks of larks, about 30 birds in each flock.
  5. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (1m,1f - Shaw Rd.)

  SPENCER LAKE WILDLIFE AREA - nothing here at all
  NESMITH LAKE - 47 coots
  TURKEYFOOT LAKE - 1 Mute Swan
  NORTH RESERVOIR - 6 Mallards
  NIMISILA RESERVOIR - 8 Mute Swan, 3 Mallard

  FIRESTONE METRO PARK
  1. Mallard - 7 (4m,3f)
  2. Mourning Dove - 5
  3. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (red phase)
  4. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m)
  5. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 (m)
  6. Downy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,2f,1*)
  7. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (1f,1*)
  8. Blue Jay - 4
  9. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
  10. Tufted Titmouse - 4
  11. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
  12. Carolina Wren - 1
  13. American Tree Sparrow - 3
  14. Song Sparrow - 4
  15. White-throated Sparrow - 6
  16. Northern Cardinal - 14 (9m,5f)
  17. Rusty Blackbird - 3 (1m,2f)

  Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.



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