A few highlights from Firestone Metro Park on Sunday 04/29 TIME: 6:30am-10:50am TEMP.: 43-70 COND.: Cool early, warming throughout, sunny with blue skies. OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus, Jim Vogus. 1. Double-crested Cormorant - 6 2. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 3. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1m,1f - 1 active nest in a black cherry) 4. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray phase in a maple cavity) 5. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 (both birds actively defending their sap runs in the same cottonwood) 6. Eastern Phoebe - 4 7. Eastern Kingbird - 1 (Jim Reyda) 8. Blue-headed Vireo - 2 9. Warbling Vireo - 1 10. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 11. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10+ 12. Gray Catbird - 5 13. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 14. Yellow Warbler - 4 (all males) 15. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 (all males - probably more) 16. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (f) 17. Baltimore Oriole - 1 (m) Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]