Dike 14 Nature Preserve
October 5, 2008

Report Pictures

Cool, sunny skies greeted 10 birders at Dike 14 on Sunday October 5, 2008. We spotted 49 species, including 8 warblers. Birds abound along the fences and in the Gordon Park picnic areas as well as in the nature preserve. Leader Nancy Howell turned over a snake-observation mat to reveal the snake's pantry: a cricket and the nest of a meadow vole. The giant goldenrod is fading, but still attacts bees and several species of butterfly.

Canada Goose
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture (on way out)
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tufted titmouse
Carolina
Wren
House Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Tennesee Warbler
Nashville
Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Savannah
Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln
's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

49 species

Mammal observations:

2 Deer, one 6-point and one 4-point
meadow vole nest
tracks of coyote and deer

Butterfly observations:

Cabbage white
Monarch
Sulphur
Viceroy

 


Birders at Dike 14 Nature Preserve © Page Stephens.


Beautiful Lake Erie © Page Stephens


Lincoln's Sparrow © Dave Lewis


Nashville Warbler © Dave Lewis


Northern Mockingbird © Dave Lewis


Palm Warbler © Dave Lewis


Swamp Sparrow © Dave Lewis


Female Birders © Page Stephens


Female Common Yellowthroat © Dave Lewis


Male Common Yellowthroat © Dave Lewis


Male Birders © Page Stephens


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