MAY 08, 2007 - Firestone Metro Park. TIME: 6:15am-9:45am TEMP.: 42-73 COND.: Cool early, gradually warming; sunny & warm. OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus, Jim Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 1 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 3. Red Squirrel - 1 II. BIRDS: 70 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 9 2. Mallard - 9 (7m,2f) 3. Double-crested Cormorant - 1 4. Great Blue Heron - 2 5. Ring-billed Gull - 2 6. Mourning Dove - 7 7. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 8. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray phase) 9. Chimney Swift - 1 10. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1f,1?) 11. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 (?) 12. Downy Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1*) 13. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*) 14. Northern Flicker - 1 (*) 15. Eastern Phoebe - 3 16. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 17. Eastern Kingbird - 1 18. Blue-headed Vireo - 1 19. Warbling Vireo - 5 20. Red-eyed Vireo - 2 21. Blue Jay - 10 22. American Crow - 1 23. Tree Swallow - 3 24. Barn Swallow - 3 25. Black-capped Chickadee - 5 26. Tufted Titmouse - 3 27. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 (2m,1f,1*) 28. Carolina Wren - 1 29. House Wren - 3 30. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (?) 31. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 (*) 32. Swainson's Thrush - 1 33. Wood Thrush - 1 34. American Robin - 21 (4 nests, one with 2 eggs) 35. Gray Catbird - 13 36. European Starling - 7 37. Cedar Waxwing - 1 38. Tennessee Warbler - 2 (m) 39. Nashville Warbler - 1 (f) 40. Yellow Warbler - 12 (8m,4f) 41. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (m) 42. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (m) 43. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 (5m,3f) 44. Blackburnian Warbler - 2 (1m,1f) 45. Palm Warbler - 1 46. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 (m) 47. Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m) 48. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m) 49. American Redstart - 1 (m) 50. Ovenbird - 1 51. Mourning Warbler - 1 (m) 52. Common Yellowthroat - 6 (m) 53. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (m) 54. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1*) 55. Chipping Sparrow - 3 56. Song Sparrow - 18 (one building nest) 57. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 58. Swamp Sparrow - 1 59. White-throated Sparrow - 16 60. White-crowned Sparrow - 11 61. Northern Cardinal - 22 (15m,7f) 62. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 8 (6m,2f) 63. Red-winged Blackbird - 10 (7m,3f) 64. Common Grackle - 12 65. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 (10m,2f) 66. Orchard Oriole - 1 (2nd-year m) 67. Baltimore Oriole - 5 (4m,1f) 68. House Finch - 2 (?) 69. American Goldfinch - 11 (8m,3f) 70. House Sparrow - 3 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIE. 1. Midalnd Painted Turtle - 1 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. --------------------------------- Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]