OCT. 06, 2007 - Silver Creek Metro Park. HIKE: Chippewa Trail TIME: 9:40am-11:30am TEMP.:67-84 COND.: Sunny, very warm. FT. MI.: 2.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 5 II. BIRDS: 27 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 26 2. Mallard - 4 (2m,2f) 3. Double-crested Cormorant - 5 4. Osprey - 1 5. Mourning Dove - 1 6. Barred Owl - 1 7. Chimney Swift - 1 8. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (*) 9. Downy Woodpecker - 1 (*) 10. Blue Jay - 7 11. American Crow - 3 12. Black-capped Chickadee - 9 13. Tufted Titmouse - 3 14. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (f) 15. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (*) 16. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*) 17. American Robin - 2 18. Gray Catbird - 2 19. European Starling - 3 20. Palm Warbler - 1 Unidentified warbler fly-over - 2 21. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 22. Song Sparrow - 3 23. Northern Cardinal - 4 (1f,3*) 24. Red-winged Blackbird - 2 (m) 25. House Finch - 1 (*) 26. American Goldfinch - 3 27. House Sparrow - 1 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 4 (*) V. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage White - 5 2. Cloded Sulphur - 5 3. Monarch - 2 Also - over the Rupp Sand & Gravel pit on Marshallville St. on the way back to Rt. 21 was an adult Bald Eagle. 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]