MAY 16, 2010 - The Wilds Area & Noble County Backroads. Drive from Akron down to The Wilds area then on to the Noble County backroads back to I-77 and back to Akron, TIME: 6:20am-4:00pm TEMP.: 51-71-69 COND.: Cloudy and cool early giving way to mostly sunny, warmer and breezy. VEH.MI.: 258.3 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus and Michelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 3 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 4. Muskrat - 1 5. White-tailed Deer - 5 (3 doe,2?) II. BIRDS: 81 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; += bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 91 (5 goslings) 2. Mallard - 23 (20m,3f) 3. Common Loon - 1 (Pond in front of Jeffrey Point raptor viewing area) 4. Great Blue Heron - 5 5. Turkey Vulture - 95 6. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (adult male) 7. Red-tailed Hawk - 24 (all adults) 8. American Kestrel - 3 (2m,1f) 9. Killdeer - 11 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 11. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1 12. Least Sandpiper - 3 13. Rock Pigeon - 37 14. Mourning Dove - 16 15. Chimney Swift - 18 16. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?) 17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 (f) 18. Northern Flicker - 3 (1m,1?,1*) 19. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (2?,1*) 20. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 21. Acadian Flycatcher - 2 22. Willow Flycatcher - 6 >>. Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 2 23. Eastern Phoebe - 2 24. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 25. Eastern Kingbird - 4 26. White-eyed Vireo - 6 27. Warbling Vireo - 3 28. Red-eyed Vireo - 19 29. Blue Jay - 14 30. American Crow - 69 31. Horned Lark - 3 32. Purple Martin - 5 33. Tree Swallow - 7 34. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 5 35. Barn Swallow - 24 36. Carolina Chickadee - 2 37. Tufted Titmouse - 6 38. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (*) 39. House Wren - 5 40. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 (*) 41. Eastern Bluebird - 7 (3m,2f,2?) 42. Wood Thrush - 6 43. American Robin - 96 44. Gray Catbird - 18 45. Northern Mockingbird - 7 46. Brown Thrasher - 6 47. European Starling - 124 48. Cedar Waxwing - 3 49. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 50. Tennessee Warbler - 1 (m) 51. Yellow Warbler - 20 (16m,1f,3?) 52. Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 (m) 53. Prarie Warbler - 1 (m - Coal Hill Rd.) 54. Blackpoll Warbler - 2 (m) 55. Cerulean Warbler - 2 (m) 56. American Redstart - 3 (m) 57. Ovenbird - 5 (*) 58. Common Yellowthroat - 25 (m) 59. Hooded Warbler - 2 (m) 60. Yellow-breasted Chat - 5 61. Scarlet Tanager - 9 (m) 62. Eastern Towhee - 24 (17m,7*) 63. Chipping Sparrow - 7 64. Field Sparrow - 23 65. Savannah Sparrow - 3 66. Grasshopper Sparrow - 10 67. Henslow's Sparrow - 7 68. Song Sparrow - 24 69. Swamp Sparrow - 1 70. Northern Cardinal - 9 (7m,2*) 71. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (m) 72. Indigo Bunting - 17 (m) 73. Bobolink - 25 (24m,1f) 74. Red-winged Blackbird - 132 (123m,9f) 75. Eastern Meadowlark - 43 76. Common Grackle - 37 77. Brown-headed Cowbird - 18 (14m,4f) 78. Orchard Oriole - 1 (m) 79. Baltimore Oriole - 3 (m) 80. American Goldfinch - 18 (10m,5f,3?) 81. House Sparrow - 19 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 10 3. Eastern Spiny Sofshell - 1 IV. BUTTERFLIES: 9 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 2 2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 18 3. Spicebush Swallowtail - 2 4. Cabbage Butterfly - 6 5. Clouded Sulphur - 5 6. Mourning Cloak - 1 7. Red Admiral - 2 8. Red-spotted Purple - 1 9. Monarch - 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]