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. --------------------------------- Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]