Akron Metro Parks - Overlook. HIKE: Overlook Trail (birds high in the tree-tops enjoying the eastern sun); followed by a stop at Oxbow Area and Chuckery Area, and on to Memorial Pkwy. Towpath Trail.
  TIME: 8:20am-9:50am (drive-thrus - 9:50am-10:30am) TEMP.: 42-57F COND.: Cloudy, cool, unseasonably cool - downright brisk - birds very active. VEH.MI.: 20.0 FT.MI.: 0.75.
  OBS.: Jim Vogus, Douglas W. Vogus.
  I. MAMMALS: 1 SPECIES.
  1. Eastern Chipmunk - 12
  II. BIRDS:
  1. Canada Goose - 10 (1 flock heading north following the Cuyahoga)
  2. Mallard - 6 (4m,2f - 1 flyover m & f at Overlook and 3m,1f at Memorial Pkwy)
  3. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (adults, 1 at Overlook and 1 at Memorial Pkwy.)
  4. Rock Pigeon - 11
  5. Mourning Dove - 3
  6. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (eating a hairy white/black caterpillar)
  7. Chimney Swift - 6
  8. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (m)
  9. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1*)
  10. Downy Woodpecker - 3 (1f,2*)
  11. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (f)
  12. Northern Flicker - 8 (1m,1juv. m, 6? - staging and migrating, but heading north)
  13. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (* - drumming)
  14. Eastern Phoebe - 1
  15. Red-eyed Vireo - 1
  16. Blue Jay - 5
  17. American Crow - 1
  18. Black-capped Chickadee - 3
  19. Tufted Titmouse - 2
  20. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (? - Oxbow pine trees)
  21. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (*)
  22. Carolina Wren - 4
  23. Swainson's Thrush - 5
  24. Wood Thrush - 1
  25. American Robin - 23 (6 juv.)
  26. Gray Catbird - 6
  27. Cedar Waxwing - 3
  28. Yellow Warbler - 1 (m - very well-defined, streaked male)
  29. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (noisy f)
  Unidentifiable warbler fly-over - 3
  30. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)
  31. Song Sparrow - 4 (1 late juv.)
  32. Northern Cardinal - 4 (1m,1f,1*,1 juv.*)
  33. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 (f)
  34. Common Grackle - 1
  35. House Finch - 1 (m)
  36. American Goldfinch - 5 (2m,1f,2*)
  Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.



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