Yesterday a mixed flock of about 25 Common Grackles, 50 Brown-headed Cowbirds, and 1 adult male Red-Winged Blackbird descended on my back yard feeding station.  My parents had a big flock of cowbirds under their feeder the day before, 10 miles south of here in Canal Fulton.

Of possible interest to SW Summit Countians is an immature Red-headed Woodpecker that I have seen in Tuscora Park. This is a community park adjacent to Summa Barberton Hospital. I first observed it on November 20.  Though I could not find it today, it has been fairly consistently seen when I have been able to walk there on weekends during daylight. When I've seen it, it has been in trees (often caching food) east of the basketball courts (not in the small woodlot behind the hospital building). It is not a common species in the area. 

Kathy Mock
Barberton, OH
DeLorme 35 F6


"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
-- Harper Lee


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