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. ______________________________________________________________________ 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/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]