Concord Township Critters
Concord Township, Delaware County, Ohio
Jeff Maass

Updated: 1 November 2009

The following are photos taken in Concord Township, Delaware County, Ohio and the surrounding area during 2007 and 2008.

My abode, Moose Acres, is in a semi-rural area North of Dublin Ohio, and has two acres of lawn with large established trees. 1/3-acre is maintained as a "grasslands', with no mowing. There is a large deciduous wooded area across the street, and a smaller evergreen wooded area behind the property. The neighborhood is mixed rural/suburban. Also within Concord Township is the Twin Lakes Wildlife Reserve, a part of O'Shaughnessy Metro Park. A few miles away to the Southwest is Glacier Ridge Metro Park.

Most of these photos were taken with a Nikon D80 digital SLR with the Nikkor 70-300 VR zoom lens. In 2008, I have replaced that camera with a pair of Nikon D300 digital SLRs, and some new lenses: Nikon 200-400mm f4 VR Zoom, 70-200mm f2.8 VR Zoom, 105mm f2.8 VR Macro, and TC-14EII and TC-17EII  teleconverters.

Please note that I began doing this collection of photos with the intent to include pretty much every photo I shot. As the number and quality of photos has increased, I have not gone back to delete the older, less good photos. When time allows, I plan to reduce these pages to the best five or ten photos of each critter.

Click on any of these thumbnails to see a slideshow of other photos of that type of critter.

CURACAO CRITTERS:
For a page showing the birds and other critters photographed on the island of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles during my November/December 2007, see my "Curacao Critters" page.

Copyright (c) 2008  Jeffrey A. Maass
All Rights Reserved.

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* = Newly Added Critter

To date, a total of 73 different species of birds have been photographed/identified, and are represented here. A total of ten non-domestic mammals have been photographed and identified. The following birds have been seen, but have not yet been photographed: Pileated Woodpecker, Indigo Bunting. All birds and mammals on these pages were found/photographed in the wild (no captive zoo or wildlife center residents).

Ruby-Crowned Kinglet	Pine Warbler	Yellow-rumped Warbler	Chestnut-sided Warbler
Ruby Throated Hummingbirds	Tufted Titmouse	Rose-Breasted Grosbeak	Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird	White-Breasted Nuthatch	Red-Breasted Nuthatch	Eastern Towhee  (At Emily Traphagen Preserve)
House Sparrow	Song Sparrows	White-Throated Sparrow	Chipping Sparrows
Field Sparrow	American Tree Sparrow	American Goldfinches
Northern Cardinals	Black-Capped Chickadee	Carolina Wren	Chipping Sparrow & Adopted Cowbird Baby!
Blue Jays	Eastern Bluebird	Northern Junco	House Finch
American Robin	Grey Catbird	Mourning Dove	Brown-Headed Cowbird
Barn Swallow	Common Grackle	American Crow	Eastern Kingbird
Cedar Waxwing	European Starling	Red-winged Blackbird
Common Nighthawk	Chimney Swift
Red-tailed Hawk	Cooper's Hawk	Red-shouldered Hawk	Turkey Vultures
Downy Woodpecker	Hairy Woodpecker	Downy Woodpecker & Hairy Woodpecker Together!	Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Great Blue Heron (At Twin Lakes)	Green Heron	Great Egrets (At Twin Lakes)	Canada Geese (At Twin Lakes)
Belted Kingfisher (At Twin Lakes)	Killdeer	Ring-billed Gull	Bonaparte's Gull
Solitary Sandpiper	Least Sandpiper	Virginia Rail	Marbled Godwit
Semipalmated Plover	Double-crested Cormorant
American Coot (At Twin Lakes)	Mallards	Pied-billed Grebe	Red-breasted Merganser
Wood Ducks (At Twin Lakes)	Lesser Scaup (At Twin Lakes)	Ring-necked Duck (At Twin Lakes)	Redhead (At Twin Lakes)
Black Swan	Canvasback (At Twin Lakes)	Blue-winged Teal (At Glacier Ridge)	Bufflehead (At Twin Lakes)
Hummingbird Moth	Cecropia Moth	Misc. Butterflies & Moths	Dragonflies/Damselflies
Raccoons	Skunk	Opossum	Domestic Critters
White-Tailed Deer	Grey Squirrel	Red Squirrel	Cottontail Rabbits
Groundhog	Fox (With Mange)	Chipmunk
Flowers	Mushroom & Toadstool	Eastern Painted Turtle	Carp

Copyright (c) 2008  Jeffrey A. Maass
All Rights Reserved.