Red-winged blackbird
Tree swallows
Northern rough-winged swallow
Double crested cormorant
Red tail
Osprey
Great blue heron
Red-shouldered hawk
Robin
Warbling vireo
Goldfinch
Baltimore Oriole
Mallards
Wood duck
Canada goose
Green heron
Cooper’s hawk
Yellow warbler
Common yellowthroat
Chickadee (and begging fledglings!)
Downy woodpecker
Northern flicker
Indigo bunting?
Common grackle
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Song sparrow
Carolina wren
Gray catbird
American crow

Mammal list:
White footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)

A sampling of the plant species observed:

Autumn olive
Blackberry                                           
Blackhaw viburnum
Blue Flag, Wild Iris
Box Elder
Broad-leaved Cattail
Burdock
Burningbush
Bush honeysuckle
Button Sedge
Chestnut Oak
Collins' Sedge
Common Catalpa
Common Cinquefoil
Common Elderberry
Common Milkweed
Common Mullein
Common Ragweed
Crabapple
Dandelion
Dayflower
Fox Grape
Fragrant White Water Lily
Garlic Mustard
Giant Ragweed
Gill-over-the-ground
Great Bulrush, Softstem
Highbush-cranberry
Ironwood
Japanese Barberry
Japanese Knotweed
Little floating heart??
Marsh Fern
Moth Mullein
Mugwort
Nannyberry
Northeastern Bracken
Northern Arrowwood
Norway Maple
Pachysandra
Path Rush
Phragmites, Giant Reed
Grass
Pignut Hickory 5(7)
Pin Oak
Pitcher Plant
Poison Ivy
Possum-haw
Purple Nightshade
Red Maple
Red Oak
Red Raspberry
Red-berried Elderberry
Redbud
Rough Bedstraw
Sassafras
Sensitive fern
Shagbark Hickory
Skunk Cabbage
Southern Arrowwood
Spicebush
Spiderwort
Spotted Joe-Pye Weed
Spotted Touch-Me-Not
Sugar Maple
Summer Grape
Sweet Gum
Sycamore
Tall Meadow rue
Tall Morning Glory
Tartarian Honeysuckle
Tree-of-Heaven
Tulip Tree
Tussock sedge
Umbellate Sedge
Umbrella Sedge
Virginia Creeper
Water Dock
Weeping Willow
White Ash
White Oak
White Pine
Wild Rose
Witherod
Woolgrass
Yellow Rocket