Ohio Young Birders Club 
Overnight Field Trip on Kelleys island

September 12 - 14, 2008
Our hosts, Kelleys Island Audubon Club

Pat Hayes, Kelleys Island Audubon Club President,
talking about the Glacial Grooves.

Species List

Birds
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Turkey Vulture
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Sanderling
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Screech-Owl
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Least Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Swainson's Thrush
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Parula
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Chipping Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch

Butterflies
Hackberry Emperor
Clouded Sulphur
Orange Sulphur
Cabbage White
Monarch Butterfly
Viceroy
Viceroy that had a very pale line on it
Red Spotted Purple
Eastern Tailed Blue
Tiger Swallowtail (This one was found dead on ferry)

Mammals
Eastern Cottontail
White-tailed Deer
Grey Squirrel

Herptiles

Lake Erie Water Snake
 

Led by Kenn Kaufman, we did some birding at the North Quarry.

Kim Kaufman showing the young birders where the bird is.

We checked out the Glacial Grooves.

The rain did not stop us from birding North Pond State Nature Preserve.

The rain continued so we moved inside and played Peterson's birding game.

Saturday evening we looked for Lake Erie Water Snakes around the cottage.

Here we are with the baby Lake Erie Water Snakes we found!

When a bird wasn't around, we could always find an insect to investigate.

Kenn Kaufman showing the group some identifying marks of an insect we found.

On an early bird walk on the eat side of the island we found a Common Green Darner.

We visited Inscription Rock

Kim showed us a Saddleback caterpillar we found in the State Park North Quarry.

We ended our weekend with a tailgate lunch at the ferry dock.

Thanks KIAC, we had a wonderful time!