MAY 20, 2020 - Summit Metro Parks' Bike & Hike Trail from Rt. 303 north to Boston Mills Rd. to old Akron-Peninsula Rd. down into Peninsula.
TIME: 1:05pm - 6:10pm TEMP.: 61 ~ 64 COND.: Cloudy, cool and breezy, turning mostly sunny.
FT. MI.: 3.50 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
- Eastern Chipmunk - 32
- Eastern Gray Squirrel - 9 (3 black morph)
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
II. BIRDS: 73 SPECIES, 396 TOTAL BIRDS.
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen)
- Mourning Dove - 4
- Chimney Swift - 6
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 (3m,1?)
- Killdeer - 8 (4 young)
- Great Blue Heron - 1
- Turkey Vulture - 7
- Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
- Broad-winged Hawk - 1
- Red-tailed Hawk - 2
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 (2m,2f,2?,6*)
- Downy Woodpecker - 4 (3m,1*)
- Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1m,1?,1*)
- Northern Flicker - 3 (1f,1?,1*)
- Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1?,2*)
- Great Crested Flycatcher - 5
- Eastern Kingbird - 1
- Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1
- Eastern Wood-Pewee - 9
- Acadian Flycatcher - 1
- Alder Flycatcher - 1
- Willow Flycatcher - 2
- Least Flycatcher - 1
- Eastern Phoebe - 1
- Yellow-throated Vireo - 5
- Blue-headed Vireo - 1
- Philadelphia Vireo - 1
- Warbling Vireo - 2
- Red-eyed Vireo - 11
- Blue Jay - 12
- American Crow - 4
- Tree Swallow - 1
- Barn Swallow - 6
- Black-capped Chickadee - 8 (1 nest in a rotted stump)
- Tufted Titmouse - 8
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 (1m,1f,2* - 1 nest in a sugar maple hole)
- House Wren - 9
- Carolina Wren - 4
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 (1m,1f,1?,2* - 1 nest in a chokecherry)
- Eastern Bluebird - 3 (1m,1f,1* - 1 nest in a dead sugar maple snag)
- Veery - 2
- Swainson's Thrush - 3
- Wood Thrush - 8
- American Robin - 16
- Gray Catbird - 13
- European Starling - 16 (1 juvenile - 2 nests in an old martin house)
- House Sparrow - 24
- American Goldfinch - 6 (1m,1f,4*)
- Chipping Sparrow - 15
- Field Sparrow - 2
- Song Sparrow - 12
- Eastern Towhee - 3 (1m,2*)
- Baltimore Oriole - 2 (m)
- Red-winged Blackbird - 19 (16m,3f)
- Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (m)
- Common Grackle - 8
- Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (m)
- Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m)
- Tennessee Warbler - 12 (10m,2f)
- Hooded Warbler - 4 (3m,1*)
- American Redstart - 7 (3m,1 immature m,3f)
- Cape May Warbler - 1 (f)
- Magnolia Warbler - 6 (5m,1f)
- Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 (m)
- Yellow Warbler - 6 (m)
- Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (m)
- Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (f)
- Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 (f)
- Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 (m)
- Canada Warbler - 4 (3m,1f)
- Wilson's Warbler - 1 (m)
- Scarlet Tanager - 4 (3m - one orange,1*)
- Northern Cardinal - 14 (12m,2f)
- Indigo Bunting - 1 (m)
Unidentified Warbler Species - 6 (fly-overs or fly aways)
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
- Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (heard only)
- Green Frog - 5
V. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES.
- Cabbage Butterfly - 1
- Gray Comma - 1
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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