MAY 10, 2007 - Magee Marsh boardwalk & Metzger Marsh mudflats (much appreciated to those in charge now that the ducks have moved on - unfortunately the fog moved in!) NOTE: list includes birds seen up & back from Akron. TIME: 4:45am-5:15pm TEMP.: 62-59-80 COND.: Soupy fog on the way up - my knuckles are no longer white (hey - here comes an ambulance - but from which way?) - warming throughout - beautiful day. VEH.MI.: 253.0 FT.MI.: 1.75 OBS.: Doug W. Vogus, Jim Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Woodchuck - 2 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 2 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 5. Muskrat - 1 6. Eastern Cottontail - 1 7. White-tailed Deer - 1 (?) II. BIRDS: 105 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 135 (67 goslings) 2. Mute Swan - 1 (Sandusky Bay) 3. Wood Duck - 6 (4m,1f,1*) 4. Mallard - 17 (9m,5f,2?,1*) 5. Pied-billed Grebe - 2 6. Double-crested Cormorant - 9 7. Great Blue Heron - 8 8. Great Egret - 19 9. Snowy Egret - 2 (MM causeway) 10. Green Heron - 6 11. Black-crowned Night Heron - 2 12. Turkey Vulture - 24 (most up & back) 13. Bald Eagle - 3 (immature) 14. Red-tailed Hawk - 9 (6 up & back) 15. American Kestrel - 1 (m) 16. Sora - 1 17. American Coot - 1 18. Semipalmated Plover - 10 19. Killdeer - 22 20. Greater Yellowlegs - 1 (Rt. 2 mudflats) 21. Lesser Yellowlegs - 15 22. Solitary Sandpiper - 2 23. Spotted Sandpiper - 3 24. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 76 25. Least Sandpiper - 36 26. Dunlin - 12 27. Bonaparte's Gull - 1 28. Ring-billed Gull - 3 29. Caspian Tern - 1 30. Common Tern - 4 31. Rock Pigeon - 3 (on way back) 32. Mourning Dove - 13 33. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray-phase) 34. Common Nighthawk - 1 35. Chimney Swift - 7 36. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?) 37. Downy Woodpecker - 3 (1f,2*) 38. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (? - on way home along Yellow Creek Rd.) 39. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 40. Willow Flycatcher - 2 41. Least Flycatcher - 4 42. Eastern Phoebe - 1 43. Eastern Kingbird - 4 44. Warbling Vireo - 10 45. Philadelphia Vireo - 2 46. Red-eyed Vireo - 2 47. Blue Jay - 18 48. American Crow - 2 (on way home) 49. Horned Lark - 2 50. Purple Martin - 7 51. Tree Swallow - 10 52. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 53. Cliff Swallow - 4 (Rt. 2 at Huron River) 54. Barn Swallow - 23 (most on way home) 55. Carolina Wren - 2 56. House Wren - 6 57. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 9 (?) 58. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m - along MM breakwall) 59. Veery - 2 60. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 61. Swainson's Thrush - 2 62. Wood Thrush - 1 63. American Robin - 56 (2 nests,1 nest with 2 young) 64. Gray Catbird - 15 65. Brown Thrasher - 2 66. European Starling - 128 (most along highways on way home) 67. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 68. Golden-winged Warbler - 1 (f) 69. Tennessee Warbler - 8 (7m,1f) 70. Nashville Warbler - 3 (2m,1f) 71. Northern Parula - 3 (m) 72. Yellow Warbler - 27 (21m,4f,2?) 73. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 20 (17m,3f) 74. Magnolia Warbler - 31 (25m,6f) 75. Cape May Warbler - 4 (m) 76. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 7 (6m,1f) 77. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 (f) 78. Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 (m) 79. Blackburnian Warbler - 5 (2m,3f) 80. Palm Warbler - 8 81. Bay-breasted Warbler - 9 (7m,2f) 82. Blackpoll Warbler - 3 (m) 83. Black-and-white Warbler - 12 (4m,8f) 84. American Redstart - 9 (6m,2 second-year m,1 f) 85. Ovenbird - 3 86. Northern Waterthrush - 2 87. Common Yellowthroat - 9 (7m,2f) 88. Wilson's Warbler - 5 (m) 89. Canada Warbler - 5 (4m,1f) 90. Chipping Sparrow - 6 91. Song Sparrow - 14 92. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 93. Swamp Sparrow - 5 94. White-throated Sparrow - 12 95. White-crowned Sparrow - 7 96. Northern Cardinal - 6 (3m,1f,2*) 97. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (m) 98. Indigo Bunting - 1 (m) 99. Red-winged Blackbird - 93 (82m,11f - most up & back) 100. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 101. Common Grackle - 81 (4 nests - most up & back) 102. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (6m,2f) 103. Baltimore Oriole - 11 (9m,2f) 104. American Goldfinch - 4 (3m,1f) 105. House Sparrow - 18 (also reported from MMBW - Mourning, Kentucky) III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 2 3. Eastern Box Turtle - 1 4. Northern Water Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIE. 1. Bullfrog - 2 (*) V. FISHES: 1 SPECIE. 1. Common Carp - 1 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Tiger Swallowtail - 3 2. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 3. Cabbage White - 5 4. UNID. Sulphur - 2 5. Red Admiral - 1 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. 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