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. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]