APRIL 23, 2011 - Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail at Canalway Visitor Center. TIME: 10:30am-1:00pm TEMP.: 68 COND.: Clouds/sun mix, warm & breezy. FT.MI.: 2.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 II. BIRDS: 45 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 37 (4 goslings, 2 nests) 2. Mallard - 7 (6m,1f) 3. Double-crested Cormorant - 6 4. Great Blue Heron - 1 5. Green Heron - 1 6. Turkey Vulture - 11 7. Cooper's Hawk - 3 (2m,1f - female on nest incubating) 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 nest) 9. Sandhill Crane - 4 (4 birds heading southeast - way up) 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 11. Solitary Sandpiper - 1 12. Herring Gull - 10 13. Mourning Dove - 2 14. Chimney Swift - 1 15. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (1m,2*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1f,2*) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*) 19. Northern Flicker - 4 (2m,1f,1*) 20. Eastern Kingbird - 1 21. Blue Jay - 2 (1 on nest) 22. Tree Swallow - 6 23. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3 24. Barn Swallow - 1 25. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 26. Carolina Wren - 1 27. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1?) 28. Hermit Thrush - 1 29. American Robin - 17 30. European Starling - 4 31. Yellow Warbler - 1 (m) 32. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (1m,1?) 33. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 34. American Tree Sparrow - 1 35. Fox Sparrow - 1 36. Song Sparrow - 7 37. White-throated Sparrow - 5 38. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (f) 39. Northern Cardinal - 7 (6m,1*) 40. Red-winged Blackbird - 12 (m) 41. Common Grackle - 12 42. Brown-headed Cowbird - 9 (5m,4f) 43. House Finch - 2 (m) 44. American Goldfinch - 5 (2m,1f,2*) 45. House Sparrow - 1 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 43 2. Blanding's Turtle - 2 3. Eastern Garter Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1(*) 2. Bullfrog - 4 3. Northern Leopard Frog - 1(*) V. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 2 2. Spring Azure - 2 3. Mourning Cloak - 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]