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. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]