MAY 07, 2015 - Birds4Cure Juvenile Diabetes Hike <www.birds4cure.wordpress.com>HIKE: Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath from Navarre north to Canal Fulton.TIME: 7:15am-3:30pm TEMP.: 54-88 COND.: Very hot & sunny.FT.MI.: 16.4 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. - Woodchuck - 2 - Eastern Chipmunk - 11 - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 7 (1 black morph) - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 - Muskrat - 1 - Eastern Cottontail - 1 BIRDS: 85 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 68 (8 goslings,2 nests) - Wood Duck - 20 (4m,4f,12 ducklings) - Mallard - 27 (12m,5f,10 ducklings) - Great Blue Heron - 4 - Green Heron - 2 - Turkey Vulture - 9 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) - Killdeer - 3 - Spotted Sandpiper - 2 - Solitary Sandpiper - 2 - Herring Gull - 1 - Rock Pigeon - 7 - Mourning Dove - 13 - Chimney Swift - 22 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?) - Belted Kingfisher - 2 (*) - Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (2m,1f,13*) - Downy Woodpecker - 10 (1m,3f,6*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (1f,1*) - Northern Flicker - 4 (*) - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 - Acadian Flycatcher - 2 - Willow Flycatcher - 1 - Eastern Phoebe - 5 (1 nest) - Great Crested Flycatcher - 4 - Eastern Kingbird - 3 - White-eyed Vireo - 1 - Yellow-throated Vireo - 4 - Warbling Vireo - 13 - Red-eyed Vireo - 21 - Blue Jay - 14 - American Crow - 5 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 22 - Barn Swallow - 3 - Carolina Chickadee - 10 - Black-capped Chickadee - 6 - Tufted Titmouse - 17 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 (1m,8*) - Carolina Wren - 8 - House Wren - 19 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 25 (2m,2f,1?,20*) - Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m) - Veery - 1 - Wood Thrush - 14 - American Robin - 76 - Gray Catbird - 65 - European Starling - 36 - Cedar Waxwing - 1 - Ovenbird - 1 - Northern Waterthrush - 6 - Prothonotary Warbler - 2 (m) - Tennessee Warbler - 2 (m) - Common Yellowthroat - 16 (m) - American Redstart - 2 (m) - Northern Parula - 1 (m) - Magnolia Warbler - 1 (m) - Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m) - Yellow Warbler - 57 (52m,4f,1*) - Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (m) - Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m) - Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (m) - Palm Warbler - 2 - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 11 (8m,2f,1*) - Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (m) - Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (m) - Eastern Towhee - 9 (8m,1*) - Chipping Sparrow - 18 - Field Sparrow - 7 - Song Sparrow - 63 - Swamp Sparrow - 9 - White-throated Sparrow - 6 - Scarlet Tanager - 3 (2m,1*) - Northern Cardinal - 76 (57m,13f,6*) - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 11 (10m,1f) - Indigo Bunting - 5 (m) - Red-winged Blackbird - 28 (19m,9f) - Common Grackle - 13 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 18 (13m,5f) - Orchard Oriole - 2 (m) - Baltimore Oriole - 24 (21m,2f,1*) - Purple Finch - 1 (m) - House Finch - 6 (*) - American Goldfinch - 35 (21m,4f,4?,6*) - House Sparrow - 47 REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. - Red-eared Turtle - 8 - Midland Painted Turtle - 37 - Eastern Spiny Softshell - 34 AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. - Northern Spring Peeper - 2 - Gray Treefrog - 14 - Green Frog - many FISHES: 4 SPECIES. - Common Carp - 8 - Largemouth Bass - 3 - Bluegill - 11 - Pumpkinseed - 1 BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES. - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 - Cabbage Butterfly - 7 - Clouded Sulphur - 1 - Red Admiral - 12 - Wild Indigo Dusky Wing - 2 So, those of you that pledged an amount per bird, we added 11 new species today. They were Cooper's Hawk, Herring Gull, Rock Pigeon, Red-headed Woodpecker, Willow Flycatcher, Veery, Prothonotary Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Swamp Sparrow & Purple Finch. That puts us at 105 species after 2 days. Thank You! Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]