I stopped by Szalay's cornfields at the Towpath Trail at Bolanz Rd. today on my lunch break. There is a good flock of blackbirds there feeding on the waste corn, including one Rusty Blackbird and one Common Grackle. List follows:
Towpath Trail at Bolanz Rd. parking lot
I. MAMMALS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (1 black phase)
II. BIRDS: 16 SPECIES.
1. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (calling at Furnace Run)
2. Mourning Dove - 110+ (3 separate flocks - also 3 separate piles of dove feathers between trail and cornfield, a Cooper's must be feeding well)
3. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
4. Blue Jay - 2
5. American Crow - 90+
6. Black-capped Chickadee - 2
7. Red-winged Blackbird - 70+ (mostly males)
8. Rusty Blackbird - 1
9. Common Grackle - 1
10. Brown-headed Cowbird - at least 2 dozen
11. European Starling - 20+ in with the blackbirds
12. Northern Cardinal - 9 (4m,5f)
13. Song Sparrow - 1
14. White-throated Sparrow - 3
15. American Goldfinch - 1
16. House Sparrow - 30+
Towpath Beaver Pond - from Riverview Rd.
1. Canada Goose - 19
2. Mallard - 3 (2m,1f)
3. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m)
   Also 2 Midland Painted Turtles out on a log - crazy weather!
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Oh.


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