JAN. 23, 2010 - Late Post - from Akron, I-77 down to The Wilds Area, Noble County backroads, Seneca Lake, Wills Creek Lake, Rt. 83 north up to Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area and back to Akron. TIME: 7:00am-6:30pm TEMP.: 36-52-43 COND.: Mostly cloudy, pleasant and warmer south. VEH.MI.: 337.5 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle M. Zager. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 3. White-tailed Deer - 7 II. BIRDS: 45 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 911 2. Trumpeter Swan - 18 (Killbuck) 3. American Black Duck - 4 (2m,2f - Killbuck) 4. Mallard - 244 (145m,99f) 5. Great Blue Heron - 1 6. Black Vulture - 3 (perched in tree above Rt. 83 just over southern Holmes Cty. line) 7. Turkey Vulture - 12 8. Bald Eagle - 1 (imm. at Wills Creek Lake) 9. Northern Harrier - 2 (1m,1f - Wilds) 10. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 (1 Noble Cty. backroads, 1 across from Lake Buckhorn) 11. Red-tailed Hawk - 52 (1 imm. - total includes all birds up & back) 12. Rough-legged Hawk - 2 (light phase - Wilds) 13. Golden Eagle - 2 (The Wilds - 1 on ground southwest of visitor center being divebombed by male harrier; 1 in pine fields off Coal Hill Rd. - thanks Paula) 14. American Kestrel - 10 (2m,5f,3?) 15. Rock Pigeon - 243 16. Mourning Dove - 69 17. Barred Owl - 1 (at Killbuck being scolded by 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers) 18. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 19. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1f,2?) 20. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 (Wills Creek Lake) 21. Downy Woodpecker - 5 (1m,3f,1?) 22. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*) 23. Northern Flicker - 12 (1m,11?) 24. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1f at Seneca Lake Dam,1? at Wills Creek Lake,1* Killbuck) 25. Blue Jay - 2 26. American Crow - 915 27. Horned Lark - 1 (Wilds) 28. Carolina Chickadee - 8 29. Tufted Titmouse - 4 30. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 (3m,1f,1?,1*) 31. Carolina Wren - 1 32. Eastern Bluebird - 20 (2m,2f,15?,1*) 33. American Robin - 36 34. European Starling - 247 35. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 (2 at Seneca Lake Dam, 1 at Wills Creek Lake) 36. American Tree Sparrow - 1 37. Song Sparrow - 3 38. White-throated Sparrow - 1 39. Dark-eyed Junco - 3 (2?,1*) 40. Northern Cardinal - 11 (6m,1f,4*) 41. Red-winged Blackbird - 1 (m) 42. Common Grackle - 1 (f) 43. House Finch - 4 (?) 44. American Goldfinch - 5 45. House Sparrow - 9 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]