Falls Lake Wildathon
2002 Report
MAMMALS (10 - last year: 8)

White-tailed Deer  
Gray Fox  
Eastern Red Bat
Virginia Opossum  
Eastern Mole  
Eastern Cottontail
Woodchuck (pair fighting) 
Eastern Gray Squirrel 
American Beaver
Eastern Chipmonk (new park record)

REPTILES (11 - last year: 11)

Eastern Fence Lizard  
Five-lined Skink 
Southeastern Five-lined Sk
Ground Skink   
Black Racer  
Black Rat Snake
Redbelly Water Snake 
Northern Water Snake
Painted Turtle
Eastern Box Turtle  
Yellowbelly Slider

AMPHIBIANS (13 - last year: 8)

American Toad  
Fowler’s Toad 
Northern Cricket Frog
Gray Treefrog   
Green Treefrog  
Barking Treefrog
Bullfrog   
Green Frog  
Pickeral Frog
Southern Leopard Frog 
Northern Two-lined Salamander
Slimy Salamander
Eastern Newt

BUTTERFLIES (23 - last year: 23)

Pipevine Swallowtail
Zebra Swallowtail 
Black Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 
Spicebush Swallowtail
Checkered White
Cabbage White  
Clouded Sulphur 
Cloudless Sulphur
Sleepy Orange  
Pearl Crescent 
American Lady
Red Admiral   
Common Buckeye 
Red-spotted Purple
Viceroy   
Carolina Satyr 
Eastern Tailed-blue
Spring Azure   
Least Skipper  
Horace’s Duskywing
Northern Cloudywing 
Silver-spotted Skipper

ODONATES (25 - last year: 9)

Common Green Darner 
Comet Darner  
Springtime Darner
Regal Darner   
Swamp Darner 
Common Baskettail
Stripe-winged Baskettail
Uhler’s Sundragon 
Lancet Clubtail
Swift Setwing   
Eastern Pondhawk 
Spangled Skimmer
Twelve-spotted Skimmer 
Common Whitetail 
Blue Corporal
Blue Dasher   
Carolina Saddlebags 
Black Saddlebags
Painted Skimmer  
Stream Cruiser 
Blue-fronted Dancer
Orange Bluet   
Eastern Forktail 
Citrine Forktail

FIREFLIES (5 - last year: 6)

Photinus consimilus  
P. brimleyi  
P. collustrans
P. marginellus  
P. ignitus

BIRDS (106 - last year: 84)

Common Loon  
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret 
Turkey Vulture 
Canada Goose
Wood Duck   
Mallard  
American Black Duck
Osprey   
Cooper’s Hawk 
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk  
Red-tailed Hawk 
Killdeer
Solitary Sandpiper  
Spotted Sandpiper 
Dunlin
Ring-billed Gull  
Herring Gull  
Bonaparte’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Caspian Tern 

Rock Dove  
Mourning Dove  
Great Horned Owl  
Barred Owl  
Wild Turkey
Common Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will  
Chuck-wills-widow 
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
Belted Kingfisher 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 
Downy Woodpecker 
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker  
Pileated Woodpecker 
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher  
Eastern Phoebe 
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird  
White-eyed Vireo 
Blue-headed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo 
Red-eyed Vireo 
Blue Jay
American Crow  
Fish Crow  
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow  
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee  
Tufted Titmouse 
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch 
Carolina Wren 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
Eastern Bluebird 
Swainson’s Thrush
Wood Thrush  
Hermit Thrush
American Robin 
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird 
European Starling 
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler  
Black-throated Blue Warb.
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler 
Pine Warbler  
Prairie Warbler
Palm 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  
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak  
Indigo Bunting 
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark  
Common Grackle 
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole  
House Finch  
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow