Species Observed on the Richardson Pond Goodwill Property
Mammals
Northern River Otter
American Beaver
Muskrat
Black Bear
White Tail Deer
Moose
Fisher
Eastern Coyote
Red Fox
Gray Fox
Long Tail Weasel
Mink
Red Squirrel
Gray Squirrel
Northern Flying Squirrel
Eastern Chipmunk
Short Tail Shrew
White-Footed Mouse
Raccoon
Porcupine
Birds
Double-crested Cormorant
Canada Goose (breeding)
American Black Duck
Mallard
Wood Duck (breeding)
Ring-necked Duck
Hooded Merganser (in migration)
Scaup sp.
Osprey (in migration)
Turkey Vulture
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Spotted Sandpiper (in migration)
Ruffed Grouse
Northern Harrier (in migration)
Red-Tailed Hawk
Great Horned Owl
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Cuckcoo
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Wood-Peewee
Least Flycatcher (probably breeding)
Tree Swallow
Chimney Swift
American Crow
Northern Raven
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Gray Catbird
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
Red-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Black-Throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler (in migration)
Yellow Warbler (breeding)
Common Yellowthroat (breeding)
Ovenbird
Red-Winged Blackbird (breeding)
Common Grackle (breeding)
Scarlet Tanager
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow (breeding)
White-throated Sparrow (in migration)
Amphibians/Reptiles
Red-Spotted Newt
Grey Tree Frog
Green Frog
Bullfrog
American Toad
Northern Water Snake
Garter Snake
Snapping Turtle
Painted Turtle (nesting)
INSECTS
Butterflies and Moths
Monarch
Orange Sulphur
Hummingbird Moth spp.
Waterlily Moth
Dragonflies
Common Green Darner
Mottled Darner
Black-tipped Darner
Dragonhunter
Lancet Clubtail
Lilypad Clubtail
Petite Emerald
American Emerald
Baskettail sp.
Eastern Amberwing
Blue Dasher
Eastern Pondhawk
Spangled Skimmer
Slaty Skimmer
White Corporal
Chalk-Fronted Corporal
Common Whitetail
Twelve-Spotted Skimmer
Four-Spotted Skimmer
Calico Pennant
Halloween Pennant
Yellow-Legged Meadowhawk
Dot-Tailed Whiteface
Hudsonian Whiteface
Frosted Whiteface
Miscellaneous insects seen in, on, or over the pond/wetland
Whirligig Beetle (Gyrinidae)
Water Boatmen (Corixidae)
Backswimmer (Notonectidae)
Caddis Fly (Trichoptera)
Predaceous Diving Beetle (Dytiscidae)
Giant Water Bug (Belstomatidae)
Water Strider (Gerridae)
halictid bee
bumblebee (Bombus spp.)
syrphid flies (hover flies)
long-horned leaf beetle (Donacia sp.)
dance fly (Empidae)
springtail (Collembola)
delphacid plant hopper
Waterlily Leaf Beetle (Pyrrhalta nympheae)
red water mite (Hydracarina)
PLANTS
Trees
Red Maple
Black Gum
Northern Red Oak
White Oak
Black Oak
Paper Birch
Black Birch
Yellow Birch
American Beech
Eastern White Pine
Pitch Pine
Eastern Hemlock
Wetland and Forest Shrubs
Leatherleaf
Buttonbush
Speckled Alder
Sheep Laurel
Winterberry Holly
Witch Hazel
Red Raspberry
Meadowsweet
Steeplebush
Highbush Blueberry
Lowbush Blueberry
Maleberry
Northern Arrowwood
Staghorn Sumac
Swamp Rose
Miscellaneous Forest Plants
Trailing Arbutus or May Flower
Wintergreen
Rock Tripe
Goldenrod
Club Moss spp.
WETLAND PLANTS
Aquatic Emergents
Pickerel-weed
Broad-leaved Arrowhead
Broad-leaved Cattail
Scirpus spp. (bulrushes)
Tussock Sedge, Three-way Sedge, and othersedges
Juncus spp. (rushes)
Bur-reed sp.
Floating
Fragrant Water-lily
Spatterdock
Floating-Leaved Pondweed
Water-shield
Misc. Wetland Plants
Inflated Bladderwort and other bladderworts
Sphagnum spp.
Royal Fern and other ferns
Reed Canarygrass
Marsh St. Johnswort