OCT. 08, 2011 - Metro Parks, Serving Summit County - Springfield Bog.
HIKE: Prairie Trail. TIME: 7:35am-9:35am TEMP.: 49-62 COND.: Crisp early, warming throughout, sunny with blue skies.
FT.MI.: 1.60 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager.
I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 11
2. White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 71
2. Mallard - 1 (*)
3. Turkey Vulture - 1
4. Red-tailed Hawk - 1
5. Killdeer - 5
6. Mourning Dove - 61
7. Chimney Swift - 16
8. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m)
9. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (1f,1?)
10. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
11. Downy Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*)
12. Northern Flicker - 3 (1m,1f,1?)
13. Eastern Phoebe - 1
14. Blue Jay - 7
15. American Crow - 4
16. Tufted Titmouse - 1
17. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (*)
18. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
19. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (?)
20. American Robin - 53
21. Gray Catbird - 3
22. European Starling - 9
23. Nashville Warbler - 1
24. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
25. Palm Warbler - 6
26. Blackpoll Warbler - 3
27. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (*)
??. Unidentified Warbler Fly-over (UWFO) - 6
28. Field Sparrow - 4
29. Song Sparrow - 27
30. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
31. Swamp Sparrow - 1
32. White-throated Sparrow - 8
33. White-crowned Sparrow - 3
34. Northern Cardinal - 1 (f)
35. Red-winged Blackbird - 173
36. Common Grackle - 8
37. Brown-headed Cowbird - 36
38. House Finch - 4 (1m,3?)
39. American Goldfinch - 10
40. House Sparrow - 2
III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 5 (heard only)
IV. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Clouded Sulphur - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. 


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