MAR. 15, 2009 - Prarie Lane Rd., Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area, Wright Marsh, Shreve Lake and Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area.
TIME: 6:45am-6:00pm (from Akron & back) TEMP.: 22-58-54 COND.: Cool early, warming throughout, sunny, breezy, blue skies. OBS.: Jennifer Knapp, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Woodchuck - 6
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (black phase)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
4. Red Squirrel - 2
5. Muskrat - 1
6. White-tailed Deer - 4
II. BIRDS: 65 SPECIES.
(?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen)
1. Canada Goose - 261
2. Mute Swan - 2
3. Tundra Swan - 23 (Prarie Lane:3; Funk Bottoms: 20)
4. Wood Duck - 10 (5m,4f,1*)
5. Gadwall - 9 (6m,3f - Killbuck Marsh)
6. American Wigeon - 9 (6m,3f)
7. Mallard - 44 (23m,21f)
8. Northern Shoveler - 72 (51m,21f)
9. Northern Pintail - 38 (19m,19f)
10. Green-winged Teal - 62 (44m,18f)
11. Canvasback - 5 (4m,1f - Funk Bottoms)
12. Redhead - 17 (9m,8f)
13. Ring-necked Duck - about 400 (mixed rafts)
14. Lesser Scaup - about 85 (mixed rafts)
15. Bufflehead - 48 (39m,9f)
16. Common Goldeneye - 2 (1m,1f - Funk Bottoms)
17. Hooded Merganser - 11 (6m,5f)
18. Ruddy Duck - 5 (Funk Bottoms)
19. Ring-necked Pheasant - 1 (m - Killbuck Marsh)
20. Pied-billed Grebe - 3 (Wright Marsh, Killbuck Marsh, Shreve Lake)
21. Horned Grebe - 1 (Killbuck Marsh)
22. Great Blue Heron - 14
23. Turkey Vulture - 13
24. Bald Eagle - 4 (juveniles - Prarie Lane:1; Funk Bottoms:3)
25. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (adult f)
26. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (adult f)
27. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
28. Red-tailed Hawk - 18 (4 active nests)
29. Rough-legged Hawk - 3 (all light phase - Prarie Lane:1; Funk Bottoms:2)
30. American Kestrel - 4 (3m,1f)
31. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult with pigeon in talons at Prarie Lane gravel pits)
32. Killdeer - 21
33. Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 (Prarie Lane)
34. Wilson's Snipe - 18 (Prarie Lane)
35. Ring-billed Gull - 87
36. Herring Gull - 9
37. Rock Pigeon - 10
38. Mourning Dove - 11
39. Red-headed Woodpecker - 4 (all at Killbuck Marsh, also 1 dead on road)
40. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 (1f,3?,1*)
41. Downy Woodpecker - 7 (2f,3?,2*)
42. Northern Flicker - 5 (1m,3?,1*)
43. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
44. Blue Jay - 9
45. American Crow - 64
46. Tree Swallow - 12
47. Carolina Chickadee - 8
48. Tufted Titmouse - 4
49. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 (3m,1f,2*)
50. Brown Creeper - 3 (Killbuck Marsh and all in full song)
51. Carolina Wren - 2
52. Eastern Bluebird - 9 (5m,3f,1*)
53. American Robin - 34
54. European Starling - 17
55. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6
56. American Tree Sparrow - 5
57. Song Sparrow - 27
58. White-crowned Sparrow - 4 (Prarie Lane)
59. Northern Cardinal - 21 (16m,4f,1*)
60. Red-winged Blackbird - 137 (m)
61. Rusty Blackbird - 8 (Killbuck Marsh:4; Funk Bottoms:4)
62. Common Grackle - 54
63. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 (m)
64. House Finch - 2 (1m,1f)
65. House Sparrow - 11
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - many
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - (*)
2. Western Chorus Frog - (*)
3. Bullfrog - tadpoles
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Guppy - 1 (in a ditch at Killbuck Marsh)

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.




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