Birds

b & w warbler

b-throated blue warbler

b-throated green warbler

ovenbird

blackburnian warbler

red-eyed vireo

gr-crested flycatcher

scarlet tanager (many singing)

bluejay

ravens

osprey

peregrine

wood duck

ring-billed gull

double-crested cormorant

Mammals

porcupine—sunning on a horizontal limb

otter—toilet (regular haul-out site)

black bear (sign)—moving rocks looking for ants

coyote—scat

Reptiles (my reason for being there)

five-lined skink—5

northern water snake—1

black rat snake—1

timber rattlesnake—79, many of which were slowly dispersing upward along the edge of a waterfall

Fish

spotted gar— 100+ spawning along the shoreline. Each 4-foot female was attended by three to five males. When I returned to the water in late afternoon sticky, pink-colered eggs covered the rocky shallows.

bluegills — nesting in sandy patches away from the rocks