Vertebrates at or near Highlands Biological Laboratory
September 11-12, 2004
Weather: 9/11 -- sunny; 9/12 -- sunny
Other notes: few birds around -- almost no migrants -- White Pines
all lacked visible cones -- fifth year in a row without mature cones
Please send additions/corrections to
Haven Wiley
Reptiles
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| Northern Watersnake
Nerodia
sipedon | 2 near Weyman |
| Eastern Garter Snake
Thamnophis
sirtalis | 1 near Weyman |
Birds
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| Mute Swan | 3 on the pond in
the golf course -- introduced -- not breeding |
| Blue Jay | 12 |
| American Crow | 4 flying
over (probably a family) |
| Carolina Chickadee | 6 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 2 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 1 |
| Gray Catbird | 1 |
| American Robin | 20 probably
included migrants |
| Blue-headed Vireo ** | 1 singing brief
bits of songs near Illges |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler * | 1 with a
party of chickadees near Illges |
| Hooded Warbler | 1 in rhododendron
thickets |
| Eastern Towhee | 2 |
| Dark-eyed Junco ** | 10 |
| Song Sparrow | 5 |
| American Goldfinch | 4 |
Mammals
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| Red Squirrel * | several
"singing" briefly |
| Eastern Cottontail
Sylvilagus
floridanus | 1
(or the very similar Allegheny Cottontail S. obscurus **** which is
possibly the same species as the New England Cottontail S.
transitionalis **) |
* northern species that extends southward in the mountains to southern
Appalachians
** northern species that extends southward in the mountains and has
evolved a distinctive subspecies in the southern Appalachians
*** species with a northern subspecies that extends southward in the
mountains to the southern Appalachians
**** species confined to the southern Appalachians
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