Stopped up at Oak Hill this morning with hopes of finding the Northern Shrike. No sign of the shrike and a quick stop at the Coliseum Grasslands yielded only 6 starlings. DEC. 29, 2007 - Oak Hill Area. Hike Oak Hill Rd. north to Scobie Rd. then south to the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center, pick up Plateau Trail then off-trail to check pine groves for owls and back to Oak Hill entrance. TIME: 7:30am-10:30am TEMP.: 36-35 COND.: Gray & overcast, southwest winds, occasionally breezy. VEH.MI.: 24.2 FT.MI.: 1.50 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (1 black phase) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 3. Red Squirrel - 2 4. White-tailed Deer - 5 (does) II. BIRDS: 24 SPECIES. (?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 251 2. Mallard - 15 (9m,6f) 3. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 4. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 5. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 (3m,2f) 6. Downy Woodpecker - 5 (3f,1?,1*) 7. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (*) 8. Northern Flicker - 2 (1f,1?) 9. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (f) 10. Blue Jay - 11 11. American Crow - 63 12. Black-capped Chickadee - 14 13. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 (2?,2*) 14. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (*) 15. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m) 16. American Robin - 2 17. European Starling - 6 18. Cedar Waxwing - 11 19. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 20. American Tree Sparrow - 2 21. White-throated Sparrow - 4 22. Dark-eyed Junco - 10 (2m,2f,5?,1*) 23. Northern Cardinal - 8 (1m,2f,5*) 24. American Goldfinch - 1 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]