MARCH 18, 2009 - The Wilds Area.
TIME: 7:30am-6:00pm (from Akron down & back) TEMP.: 44-71-57 COND.: Sunny, breezy & warm. VEH.MI.: 277.0 OBS.: Jennifer Knapp, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
1. Coyote - 1
2. Eastern Chipmunk - 1
3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1
4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
5. Beaver - 1
6. Muskrat - 1
7. White-tailed Deer - 8
II. BIRDS: 46 SPECIES.
(?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen)
1. Canada Goose - 103
2. Gadwall - 2 (1m,1f)
3. Mallard - 18 (10m,8f)
4. Ring-necked Duck - 169 (110m,59f)
5. Lesser Scaup - 11 (9m,2f)
6. Bufflehead - 6 (4m,2f)
7. Hooded Merganser - 18 (9m,9f)
8. Red-breasted Merganser - 5 (f)
9. Pied-billed Grebe - 2
10. Great Blue Heron - 4
11. Turkey Vulture - 94
12. Osprey - 1
13. Northern Harrier - 1 (m)
14. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
15. Red-tailed Hawk - 25 (1 carrying a garter snake)
16. Rough-legged Hawk - 4 (3 light phase, 1 dark phase)
17. American Kestrel - 4 (2m,1f,1?)
18. Killdeer - 8
19. Lesser Yellowlegs - 1
20. Wilson's Snipe - 1
21. Ring-billed Gull - 2
22. Rock Pigeon - 62
23. Mourning Dove - 23
24. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (?)
25. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 (?)
26. Downy Woodpecker - 1 (f)
27. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
28. Eastern Phoebe - 2
29. American Crow - 32
30. Horned Lark - 3
31. Carolina Chickadee - 5
32. Tufted Titmouse - 1
33. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (*)
34. Eastern Bluebird - 4 (2m,2f)
35. American Robin - 39
36. Northern Mockingbird - 2
37. European Starling - 326
38. Field Sparrow - 1
39. Savannah Sparrow - 1
40. Song Sparrow - 39
41. Northern Cardinal - 3 (m)
42. Red-winged Blackbird - 45 (m)
43. Eastern Meadowlark - 21
44. Common Grackle - 17
45. House Finch - 1 (*)
46. House Sparrow - 6
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 3
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - (*)

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.




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