FEBRUARY 23, 2024 - Akron to Garden Isle Rd. Area, Prairie Lane Rd.
Wetlands & Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area and back.
TIME: 8:20am - 1:35pm  TEMP.: 40F ~ 54F ~ 49F
COND.: Heavy fog lifting, turning mostly sunny and warmer.
VEH. MI.: 118.2 OBS.: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES, 11 TOTAL.

   1. Woodchuck - 1  (along Prairie Lane Rd.)
   2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black orph)
   3. White-tailed Deer - 8 (?)


II.BIRDS: 52 SPECIES, 2,583 BIRDS.
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not sexed)


   1. Canada Goose - 86
   2. Mute Swan - 1  (at Killbuck Marsh seen from Cemetery Rd.)
   3. Trumpeter Swan - 9
   4. Tundra Swan - 9
   5. Wood Duck - 1 (m)  (Killbuck Marsh backwaters)
   6. Northern Shoveler - 5 (3m,2f)  (at Killbuck Marsh at Cemetery Rd.)
   7. Gadwall - 8 (4m,4f)  (at Killbuck Marsh at Cemetery Rd.)
   8. American Wigeon - 7 (4m,3f)  (two locations at Killbuck Marsh)
   9. American Black Duck - 8 (4m,4f)  (Killbuck Marsh)
   10. Mallard - 600  (estimated - Garden Isle Rd., Prairie Lane Wetlands &
   Killbuck Marsh)
   11. Northern Pintail - 240  (estimated - Garden Isle Rd., Prairie Lane
   Wetlands & Killbuck Marsh)
   12. Green-winged Teal - 5 (3m,2f)  (Prairie Lane Wetlands)
   13. Canvasback - 2 (1m,1f)  (pond at corner of Rt. 226 & Kister Rd.)
   14. Redhead - 14 (8m,6f)  (pond at corner of Rt. 226 & Kister Rd.)
   15. Ring-necked Duck - 180  (estimated - most at Killbuck Marsh at
   Cemetery Rd.)
   16. Lesser Scaup - 11 (8m,3f)  (pond at corner of Rt. 226 & Kister Rd.)
   17. Bufflehead - 5 (3m,2f)  (4 at pond at corner of Rt. 226 & Kister Rd.
   & 1 at Killbuck Marsh)
   18. Common Goldeneye - 1 (m)  (sand & gravel pit pond along Prairie Lane
   Rd.)
   19. Hooded Merganser - 8 (4m,4f)  (Prairie Lane Rd. Wetlands)
   20. Common Merganser - 7 (4m,3f)  (Prairie Lane Rd. Wetlands)
   21. Red-breasted Merganser - 3 (2m,1f)  (Prairie Lane Rd. Wetlands)
   22. Rock Pigeon - 78
   23. Mourning Dove - 16
   24. Sandhill Crane - 11  (9 along Prairie Lane Rd. & 2 at Killbuck Marsh)
   25. Killdeer - 6  (4 along Garden Isle Rd. & 2 at Killbuck Marsh)
   26. Ring-billed Gull - 3  (Killbuck Marsh at Cemetery Rd.)
   27. Turkey Vulture - 5  (4 at over intersection of Cemetery Rd. & Force
   Rd. & 1 over Rt. 3 in Wooster)
   28. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (adult m)
   29. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,1 immature - two adults & one immature at
   Garden Isle Rd. & one immature at Killbuck Marsh)
   30. Red-tailed Hawk - 20  (totals there and back)
   31. Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (light morph)  (working the corn fields at
   Garden Isle Rd.)
   32. Downy Woodpecker - 1 (m)
   33. American Kestrel - 4 (2m,2f)  (one along Rt. 83 near Burbank, two
   along Prairie Lane Rd. & one along Rt. 585)
   34. Blue Jay - 2
   35. American Crow - 17
   36. Tufted Titmouse - 2
   37. Horned Lark - 14  (all along Garden Isle Rd. corn fields)
   38. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (*)
   39. Carolina Wren - 1
   40. Northern Mockingbird - 1  (along Prairie Lane Rd.)
   41. European Starling - 526  (totals for the day with handheld clicker)
   42. Eastern Bluebird - 5 (2m,2f,1*)
   43. American Robin - 32
   44. House Sparrow - 17
   45. House Finch - 6 (1m,3f,2*)
   46. Lapland Longspur - 8  (kicked up by the Rough-legged Hawk along
   Garden Isle Rd.)
   47. American Tree Sparrow - 22
   48. Song Sparrow - 14
   49. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)  (along Valley Rd. at Killbuck Marsh)
   50. Red-winged Blackbird - 37 (36m,1f)
   51. Common Grackle - 508  (estimated flock of 500 birds along Rt. 585)
   52. Northern Cardinal - 9 (6m,1f,2*)


III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES, 9 TOTAL.

   1. Midland Painted Turtle - 9  (Killbuck Marsh)


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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