Finally a great day to walk in the park. No unusual birds but a lot of birds were seen. The number of cliff swallows flying over the river by the Harshman Rd. bridge suggests their young have fledged, which is good because they will soon begin replacing that bridge - it really must be done or the bridge might fall down with cars on it some day. It is in that bad a shape. Here's hoping the swallows find a new nesting site while the work is being done.Birds seen or heard: lots and lots of robins, mourning doves, starlings, Canada geese, cedar waxwings, white-breasted nuthatches, a barn swallow by the restroom, northern rough-winged swallows, a Carolina chickadee, house wrens, a couple of chipping sparrows, several Baltimore orioles, blue-gray gnatcatchers, red-winged blackbirds, cowbirds, goldfinches,a catbird, house finches, the cliff swallows by the bridge, a few mallards, one great blue heron, flying over, one red-tailed hawk soaring above us, indigo buntings, one soaring turkey vulture, a female rose-breasted grosbeak, song sparrows, a male cardinal, wood-pewees (heard), tufted titmice (heard), red-bellied woodpeckers (heard), and the call of a vireo that I think was a red-eyed vireo (but I will admit that I can confuse the red-eyes and the yellow-throated songs. I'm not the world's best sound birder.)

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