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SEPT. 27, 2008 - Peninsula Overflow Lot, take the R.R. tracks north across the Cuyahoga River and bird the weedy field east of the tracks just north of the Cuyahoga.
TIME: 8:00am-10:10am TEMP.: 64-67 COND.: Cloudy, cool.
FT.MI.: 1.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 14
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1
3. Eastern Cottontail - 1
4. White-tailed Deer - 7 (5 doe,2?)
II. BIRDS: 35 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen)
1. Canada Goose - 28
2. Great Blue Heron - 3
3. Red-tailed Hawk - 1
4. Mourning Dove - 12
5. Chimney Swift - 12
6. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m)
7. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (*)
8. Downy Woodpecker - 4 (1?,3*)
9. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*)
10. Northern Flicker - 6 (1m,4f,1?)
11. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (?)
12. Eastern Phoebe - 3
13. Blue Jay - 9
14. American Crow - 2
15. Black-capped Chickadee - 2
16. Tufted Titmouse - 4
17. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (*)
18. Carolina Wren - 3
19. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (?)
20. American Robin - 111
21. Gray Catbird - 2
22. European Starling - 116
23. Cedar Waxwing - 51
24. Palm Warbler - 2
25. Common Yellowthroat - 3 (1m,2f)
26. Henslow's Sparrow - 1
27. Song Sparrow - 21
28. White-throated Sparrow - 2
29. Northern Cardinal - 7 (1m,1f,1juv.f,2*,2juv.*)
30. Indigo Bunting - 13
31. Red-winged Blackbird - 26
32. Common Grackle - 2
33. House Finch - 2 (*)
34. American Goldfinch - 8
35. House Sparrow - 4
III. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (*)
2. Green Frog - 1 (then caught by Great Blue)
IV. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Monarch - 1
   The Indigo Buntings were all together along the hedgerow between the tracks and the weedy field. All were in various states of plummage, males, females, immatures. The weedy field held all but one of the Song Sparrows, the lone Henslow's and both Palm Warblers. Birds galore along the hedgerow.
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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