Falls Lake Wildathon
			2001 Report
					The results are in!  My first Wildathon for the New Hope Audubon Society was a success.  I participated in this 24 hour count of all flora and fauna at various areas at Falls Lake.  Woodpecker Ridge and Brickhouse Road Waterfowl Impoundments were the two main areas covered.  With a cloudy and cool day butterflies and dragonflies were scarce, resulting in low total finds.  The weather was good for reptiles, amphibians and birds.  I counted 84 different species of birds, which leads all other volunteer groups that participated in the event.  Other good finds were a brown phase Eastern Hognose Snake at Sandling Beach, a pair of Redbelly Water Snakes mating at Brickhouse Road and the six (!) species of fireflies found at Brickhouse.  Thanks to everyone who donated, we really made a difference. MAMMALS - 8 White-tailed Deer   Gray Fox   Eastern Pipistrelle Racoon Eastern Mole   Eastern Cottontail Woodchuck  Eastern Gray Squirrel  REPTILES - 11 Eastern Fence Lizard   Five-lined Skink  Ground Skink    Six-lined Racerunner Black Rat Snake Eastern Hognose Snake Redbelly Water Snake (mating pair) Northern Water Snake Painted Turtle Snapping Turtle Yellowbelly Slider AMPHIBIANS - 8 American Toad   Fowler’s Toad  Northern Cricket Frog Gray Treefrog    Spring Peeper Bullfrog    Green Frog   Southern Leopard Frog  BUTTERFLIES - 23   Zebra Swallowtail  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail  Spicebush Swallowtail Orange Sulphur  Cloudless Sulphur Sleepy Orange   Pearl Crescent  American Lady   Red-spotted Purple Variegated Fritillary Eastern Comma Monarch Viceroy    Carolina Satyr  Gemmed Satyr Little-wood Satyr Eastern Tailed-blue Spring Azure    Fiery Skipper   Horace’s Duskywing Southern Cloudywing  Silver-spotted Skipper Clouded Skipper ODONATES - 9   Swamp Darner  Uhler’s Sundragon  Lancet Clubtail   Eastern Pondhawk   Common Whitetail  Blue-fronted Dancer Powdered Dancer Eastern Forktail  Fragile Forktail FIREFLIES - 6 Photinus consimilus   P. brimleyi   P. collustrans P. marginellus   P. ignitus P. consanguineus BIRDS - 84   Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture  Canada Goose Wood Duck    Mallard   Osprey  Bald Eagle  Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk  Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Killdeer  Spotted Sandpiper  Ring-billed Gull    Rock Dove   Mourning Dove   Great Horned Owl   Barred Owl    Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird   Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker  Downy Woodpecker  Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker   Pileated Woodpecker  Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher   Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird   White-eyed Vireo  Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo  Blue Jay American Crow   Fish Crow   Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow   Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee   Tufted Titmouse  White-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch  Carolina Wren  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird  Wood Thrush   American Robin  Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird  Brown Thrasher European Starling  Northern Parula Yellow Warbler   Yellow-throated Warbler  Pine Warbler   Prairie Warbler   Black & White Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler  Ovenbird   Louisiana Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat  Hooded Warbler  Yellow-breasted Chat Summer Tanager   Scarlet Tanager  Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow   Field Sparrow   Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow   Northern Cardinal Blue Grosbeak   Indigo Bunting  Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle  Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole   House Finch   American Goldfinch House Sparrow