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Group photo on North
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Species List
Canada Goose
Mallard
Wood Duck
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Osprey with a fish
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Bank Swallow
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-White Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Other Species:
Lake Erie Water Snake
Northern
Walking Stick
Wood boring wasp (Genus
Pristaulacus)
Monarch
Hackberry Emperor
Clouded Sulphur
Yellow-collared Scape Moth
Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth
Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillar
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Phil,
Ethan and Brad boarding the "Plan B". |
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Captain
Marty and Jim giving us last minute
instructions |
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On our
way to North Bass Island we
passed Green Island where the
cormorants have destroyed some of the
habitat. |
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Jim
told us about this rare water plant,
Eelgrass
which we found by the dock on North Bass
Island. |
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Ethan,
Brad, Phil, Auriel, Jim, Emily, Matt,
Ben and Theresa on North Bass Island |
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The "Plan
B" docked at
North Bass Island. |
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Jim,
Ben, Ethan, Theresa and Matt trying to
find that bird! |
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Auriel,
Jim, Brad and Brad looking at a very
large Lake Erie Water Snake!! |
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Pretty
big LEWS!! |
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Ben
checking out a spider in a worm web. |
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Not
very many buildings on this 677 acre
island. |
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Monarch
were floating around everywhere. |
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We
found a very friendly Hackberry Emperor |
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We
walked to the far shoreline where we
found Olney's Three-square bulrush,
Schoenoplectus americanus. |
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Jim and
Ben heading back to the boat. |
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Off we
headed to the second leg of our field
trip, Kelleys Island. |
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Pat
Hayes, from the Kelleys Island Audubon
Club, met us at Seaway Marina
and gave us all a packet of island
information. |
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It
began to rain so we stayed under cover
while Pat tagged some Monarchs. |
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Here is
one of the
tagged Monarchs. |
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Ben,
with Theresa's help, tagging a Monarch. |
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Success!
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Since
the rain seem to let up, we headed down
Division Street for the
Glacial Grooves in our rented golf
carts. |
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We
stopped and saw the really neat Glacial
Grooves. |
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Kelleys
Island's Glacial
Grooves |
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We
checked out the bay at the State Park
sandy beach. |
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In
Scheele Preserve is a rare to Ohio Rock
Elm Grove. |
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Brad,
Ethan and Phil check out this
blue-purple wasp. |
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Do you
know what this is?
(Possibly a
Blue Mud Wasp,
Chalybion californicum) |
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And
then we found a Walking Stick in the
Rock Elm grove. |
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Walking
Stick |
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This
was a great place with a lot to
look at. |
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Jim
showed us how the the Rock Elm bark was
different. |
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With
renewed appetites it
was time to head back to Catawba Island. |
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Thanks OOS for a great field trip! |
