Here is just some of the flora and fauna that can be found at Peppy Paws Pooch Park. This page will be more or less constantly
updated as I find more things to add to the lists, and hopefully each item will be a link to a page with pics and information. According to the
Soil Survey of Ashland County, Ohio there are six different soils here.
Plants:
Sugar Maple
White Pine
Wild Cherry
Wild Grape
Burdock (working at reducing this)
Garlic Mustard (working at eradicating this invasive pest)
Mayflower
Phlox
Jewel Weed
Hedge Bindweed
Poison Ivy
Virginia Creeper
Broadleaf Plantain
Chicory
Dandelion
Thistle
Multiflora Rose
Stinging Nettle
Daylily
Blackberry
Catnip
Ground Ivy?
Boxelder
Pokeweed
Common Milkweed
...LOTS more to add here...
Insects, Spiders, & Crustaceans:
Mosquito (ugh, pretty bad this year with all the rain!)
Dragonfly
Damselfly
Garden Spider
Crayfish
Katydid
Wolf Spider
Praying Mantis
Cricket
Honey Bee
Bumble Bee
Cicada
Aphid
Monarch Butterfly
Easter Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Cabbage Butterfly
...LOTS more to add...
Amphibians:
Northern Leopard Frog Common in the pasture on the north side of the creek.
Green Frog I generally see them on the creek banks
American Toad
Tree Frog
Reptiles:
Butler's Garter Snake Very common around here.
Common Water Snake
Birds:
Robin
Hummingbird
Crow
Turkey Vulture
Mourning Dove
Red-Winged Blackbird
European Starling
Baltimore Oriole (neighboring property)
Eastern Bluebird
Canada Goose (neighboring cornfields)
Green Heron
Great Blue Heron
Kingfisher
Eastern Kingbird
Slate-colored Junco
Downy Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker (neighboring property)
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Cardinal
Blue Jay
Tufted Titmouse
Phoebe
Eastern Peewee?
Goldfinch
Black-capped Chickadee
Wood Duck Every spring for the past few years I've seen a pair at the very top of an old maple.
Screech Owl I frequently hear them at night and have seen them in trees in the daylight too.
Great Horned Owl I saw this recently sitting in a tree along Rt 58 just north of 1175. Unmistakable.
Kestrel
Red-tailed Hawk I haven't seen any hawks this year. I had a big old maple tree that overlooked the pasture that they often sat in, but it fell last year. However, I did find feathers galore at the base of two 6x6 fence posts, which I guess would be the work of a hawk or kestrel.
Northern Harrier?
Song Sparrow
Barn Swallow
Mammals:
Groundhog
Mouse/Vole/Mole/Shrew of various kinds (need to sort them out)
Northern Short-tailed Shrew?
Raccoon I hear these squabbling at night often.
Opposum
Muskrat I see these every so often down in the creek.
Coyote Years ago, I actually saw a sick one INSIDE my pole barn. I routinely hear them in the pasture at night in the spring, especially.
Red Fox I've seen a couple of them crossing neighboring fields over the years.
Fox Squirrel
Chipmonk
Cottontail Rabbit
some type of bat
