NOV. 25, 2007 - Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation Towpath Trail - Leonard Krieger Nature Center north to Harvard Ave. (hike includes all waysides on trek north & south)
TIME: 7:55am-10:10am north/ 10:10am-11:30am south TEMP.: 23-38
COND.: Cold/brisk early, warming throughout; sunny with blue skies.
FT. MI.: 4.80 (including waysides up & back) OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 1
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
3. Eastern Cottontail - 1
II. BIRDS: 38 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen)
1. Canada Goose - 6
2. American Black Duck - 4 (2m,2f)
3. Mallard - 17 (12m,5f)
4. Pied-billed Grebe - 1
5. Great Blue Heron - 3
6. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (3 pairs)
7. American Kestrel - 2 (1m,1f - together)
8. Bonaparte's Gull - 21 (1 single bird w/flock of RBG; and 1 flock of 20)
9. Ring-billed Gull - 406
10. Herring Gull - 3
11. Rock Pigeon - 11
12. Mourning Dove - 20
13. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1?)
14. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 (m)
15. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (2m,2f,2?,3*)
16. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (f)
17. Blue Jay - 5
18. American Crow - 2
19. Black-capped Chickadee - 5
20. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (1m,2?,2*)
21. Carolina Wren - 2
22. American Robin - 4
23. Northern Mockingbird - 3
24. European Starling - 4
25. Cedar Waxwing - 41 (1 flock of 34 & 1 flock of 7 w/f purple finch)
26. American Tree Sparrow - 7
27. Fox Sparrow - 1
28. Song Sparrow - 9
29. Swamp Sparrow - 1
30. White-throated Sparrow - 26
31. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 (first winter bird w/ 2 song & 6 tree sparrows)
32. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (?)
33. Northern Cardinal - 18 (6m,5f,7*)
34. Red-winged Blackbird - 9 (7m,1f,1*)
35. Purple Finch - 1 (f - w/ 7 waxwings)
36. House Finch - 4 (1?,3*)
37. American Goldfinch - 11
38. House Sparrow - 11
Won't be long and this 110-mile masterpiece will be complete. And what a trail we'll have and what a list I'll have. Support your Towpath!
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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