Birds Mammals Titmouse, Tufted Loon, Common Opossum Nuthatch, White-breasted Grebe, Pied-billed Short-tailed shrew Nuthatch, Brown-headed Heron, Great Blue Eastern Mole Creeper, Brown Heron, Green Big Brown Bat Wren, Carolina Vulture, Black Red Bat Wren, House Vulture, Turkey Eastern Cottontail Wren, Winter Goose, Canada Eastern Chipmunk Kinglet, Golden-crowned Duck, Wood Gray Squirrel Kinglet, Ruby-crowned Mallard Southern Flying Squirrel Gnatcatcher, Blue-gray Osprey White-footed Mouse Bluebird, Eastern Eagle, Bald Hispid Cotton Rat Thrush, Hermit Hawk, Sharp-shinned Muskrat Thrush, Wood Hawk, Cooper’s Raccoon Robin, American Hawk, Red-shouldered Mink Catbird, Gray Hawk, Broad-winged Gray Fox Mockingbird, Northern Hawk, Red-tailed Red Fox Thrasher, Brown Turkey, Wild White-tailed Deer Starling, European Bobwhite, Northern Waxwing, Cedar Coot, American Warbler, Yellow-rumped Woodcock, American Warbler, Yellow-throated Gull, Laughing Warbler, Pine Gull, Ring-billed Warbler, Prairie Dove, Mourning Warbler, Black-and-white Cuckoo, Yellow-billed Redstart, American Screech-Owl, Eastern Warbler, Prothonotary Owl, Great Horned Common Snapping Turtle Ovenbird Owl, Barred Eastern Box Turtle Yellowthroat, Common Swift, Chimney Northern Fence Lizard Chat, Yellow-breasted Hummingbird, Ruby-throated Green Anole Tanager, Summer Kingfisher, Belted Five-lined Skink Tanager, Scarlet Woodpecker, Red-headed Northern Black Racer Towhee, Eastern Woodpecker, Red-bellied Corn Sparrow, Chipping Sapsucker, Yellow-bellied Black Sparrow, Field Woodpecker, Downy Eastern Sparrow, Song Woodpecker, Hairy Northern Watersnake Sparrow, Swamp Flicker, Northern Rough Green Snake Sparrow, White-throated Woodpecker, Pileated Brown Snake Junco, Dark-eyed Wood-Pewee, Eastern Northern Redbelly Snake Cardinal, Northern Flycatcher, Acadian Eastern Garter Snake Bunting, Indigo Phoebe, Eastern Blackbird, Red-winged Flycatcher, Great Crested Grackle, Common Kingbird, Eastern Cowbird, Brown-headed Red-spotted Newt Vireo, White-eyed Finch, Purple Spotted Salamander Vireo, Blue-headed Finch, House White-spotted (Slimy) Salamander Vireo, Red-eyed Siskin, Pine Fowler’s Toad Jay, Blue Goldfinch, American Northern Cricket Frog Crow, American Cope’s Gray Treefrog Crow, Fish Northern Spring Peeper

Swallow, Barn Upland Chorus Frog Chickadee, Carolina Bullfrog

Weather Data: Wind Direction: ______A Temperature (°F):______Sky Code: ______Wind Code: ______Precipitation: ______Comments: Wind Codes: 0= smoke rises vertically, 1= smoke moves, Checklist of the 2= wind felt on face, 3= leaves in constant motion, 4= small branches in motion, 5= small trees in sway, 6= above level 5 Vertebrate Fauna of Sky Codes: 0= clear, 1= scattered clouds, 2= overcast, 3= fog Precipitation Codes: 4= drizzle, 5= snow, 6= showers Latta Plantation

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Habitat Code: ______Habitat Codes: 1 = deciduous forest, 2 = pine forest, 3= agricultural field /pasture, 4 = marsh/wetland/bog, 5 = on the road, 6 = flying over, 7 = prairie /warm-season grassland, 8 = on pond/ lake/ shoreline, 9 = creek / stream / streamside / floodplain, 10 = powerline row, 11 = near building/ ruderal garden /managed yard, 12 = old field/early succession scrub/ shrub.

NOTES Notes: (breeding evidence, behavior, specific location and habitat of uncommon , etc.) ______MECKLENBURG COUNTY ______PARK AND RECREATION ______Division of Natural Resources ______Please send sighting information to: Conservation Science Specialist 9401 Plaza Road Extension Charlotte, NC 28215 704-432-1389 Educational Publication No. 17