MAY 12, 2013 - Metro Parks, Serving Summit County - Firestone Metro Park.
TIME: 8:20am-11:20am TEMP.: 43-49 COND.: Mostly cloudy, chilly & breezy.
FT.MI.: 2.0 OBS.: Douglas W. & Michelle Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 6
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3
II. BIRDS: 68 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 8 (5 goslings)
2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f)
3. Mallard - 5 (4m,1f)
4. Double-crested Cormorant - 2
5. Great Blue Heron - 2
6. Turkey Vulture - 1
7. Osprey - 1
8. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f)
9. Broad-winged Hawk - 1
10. Red-tailed Hawk - 1
11. Spotted Sandpiper - 4
12. Mourning Dove - 1
13. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1
14. Chimney Swift - 2
15. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*)
16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (1m,2*)
17. Downy Woodpecker - 3 (1m,2f)
18. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (?)
19. Least Flycatcher - 2
20. Eastern Phoebe - 3
21. Warbling Vireo - 3
22. Red-eyed Vireo - 3
23. Blue Jay - 4
24. American Crow - 1
25. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 12
26. Bank Swallow - 1
27. Barn Swallow - 14
28. Black-capped Chickadee - 5
29. Tufted Titmouse - 4
30. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (f)
31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (m)
32. Carolina Wren - 2
33. House Wren - 2
34. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (f)
35. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m)
36. Veery - 1
37. Wood Thrush - 2
38. American Robin - 18 (2 nests)
39. Gray Catbird - 14
40. European Starling - 1
41. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m)
42. Tennessee Warbler - 1 (m)
43. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m)
44. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (m)
45. American Redstart - 2 (m)
46. Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m)
47. Yellow Warbler - 2 (m)
48. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (m)
49. Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m)
50. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (m)
51. Palm Warbler - 1
52. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 (2m,6f)
53. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (m)
54. Eastern Towhee - 2 (m)
55. Chipping Sparrow - 1
56. Song Sparrow - 8
57. Swamp Sparrow - 1
58. White-throated Sparrow - 6
59. White-crowned Sparrow - 1
60. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (1m,1f)
61. Northern Cardinal - 17 (11m,5f,1*)
62. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (3m,1f)
63. Red-winged Blackbird - 6 (4m,2f)
64. Common Grackle - 11
65. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (m)
66. Orchard Oriole - 1 (m)
67. Baltimore Oriole - 3 (m)
68. American Goldfinch - 4 (3m,1f)
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Garter Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (heard)
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Oh.

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