JUNE 14, 2009 - Greater Akron Audubon Society's Summer Bird Census - Area #25 Boundary of I-76 to the north, Rt. 532 to the east, Sanitarium Rd. to the south and Canton Rd. to the west. Most censusing done around Gilchrist Rd. area R.R. tracks & businesses and Mogadore Lions Park. TIME: 7:00am - 2:00pm TEMP.: 52-84-81 COND.: Sunny, warm, few clouds. VEH.MI.: 19.2 FT.MI.: 4.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Woodchuck - 3 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 31 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 8 4. White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe) II. BIRDS: 61 SPECIES. (?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 10 (6 young) 2. Wood Duck - 4 (2m,2f) 3. Mallard - 6 (2m,4?) 4. Great Blue Heron - 29 (21 young in 11 nests) 5. Green Heron - 1 6. Turkey Vulture - 1 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (1 immature,1 juvenile) 9. Killdeer - 11 (4 young) 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 11. Ring-billed Gull - 67 (nesting colony still active on roof of Gilchrist Rd. business) 12. Herring Gull - 4 (probable nesting on Rubbermaid building on Gilchrist Rd.) 13. Rock Pigeon - 3 14. Mourning Dove - 19 15. Chimney Swift - 9 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 (1f,1?,3*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 6 (1f,1juv.,2?,2*) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*) 19. Northern Flicker - 7 (3m,1f,1?,2*) 20. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 21. Willow Flycatcher - 3 22. Eastern Phoebe - 6 23. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 24. Eastern Kingbird - 1 25. Warbling Vireo - 1 26. Red-eyed Vireo - 10 27. Blue Jay - 22 (4 juvenile) 28. American Crow - 7 29. Tree Swallow - 3 30. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 12 31. Barn Swallow - 2 32. Black-capped Chickadee - 10 (2 juvenile) 33. Tufted Titmouse - 12 (2 juvenile) 34. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (1m,1f) 35. Carolina Wren - 2 36. House Wren - 10 37. Wood Thrush - 5 38. American Robin - 59 (1 juvenile) 39. Gray Catbird - 41 40. Brown Thrasher - 1 41. European Starling - 66 42. Cedar Waxwing - 28 43. Yellow Warbler - 17 (15m,1f,1?) 44. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (m) 45. Scarlet Tanager - 1 (m) 46. Eastern Towhee - 8 (4m,2f,2 juvenile) 47. Chipping Sparrow - 13 (1 juvenile) 48. Field Sparrow - 2 49. Song Sparrow - 37 50. Swamp Sparrow - 2 51. Northern Cardinal - 34 (21m,7f,4 juvenile,2*) 52. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 5 (4m,1f - 1 pair building nest) 53. Indigo Bunting - 14 (13m,1f) 54. Red-winged Blackbird - 24 (15m,9f) 55. Common Grackle - 37 56. Brown-headed Cowbird - 9 (7m,1f,1 juvenile) 57. Orchard Oriole - 1 (immature m) 58. Baltimore Oriole - 9 (6m,3f) 59. House Finch - 5 (1m,1f,2?,1*) 60. American Goldfinch - 27 (20m,7f) 61. House Sparrow - 28 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 2 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 7 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Green Frog - 8 V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 7 2. Creek Chub - about 24 3. Largemouth Bass - 2 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 10 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 4 2. Clouded Sulphur - 2 3. Orange-barred Sulphur - 1 4. Spring Azure - 5 5. Pearl Crescent - 1 6. Mourning Cloak - 2 7. Viceroy - 1 8. Little Wood Satyr - 6 9. Silver-spotted Skipper - 3 10. Least Skipper - 1 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]