For my summer ecology course I am taking at KSU an assignment we had to do was to conduct a ecological observation of two habitat and communities,(I am not going give the details of the assignment), but some birds whither noting; American Crows (5+), Tree Swallow Black-capped Chichadee(2+, heard more calling and singing, then seen) Northern Cardinal Field Sparrow Baltimore Oriole(3) Common Grackle Wood Thrush American Robin Turkey Vulture O'Neil Woods Serving Summit Co. MetroParks is located in Bath Twp, off of Ira Rd, W Bath Rd. I like this park because of the rough terran and upland communities (mixed mesophytic woods with some nice plants). The dense forest is full of life birds and plants just watch out for trail systems. To note for the assignment we had to choose one species and watch it for 15 minutes and what it did in those 15 mins. The Baltimore Oriole i choose to observe for those 15 mins, I watched it forage high in the canopy of white ash trees. Once the 15 mins was up the bird took off down to another section of the late succession field community I was in. I heard 3 Oriole call but only watch the one. After O'Neil I spent the rest of the day at Kendall in CVNP, all day I heard and watch the winter wren, brown thrush, and hermit thrush, KY warbler work the edges of the parking lot and the edge of woods facing E off the building. It was a great day to spend down in the valley for birding and I cought up on my course work. See you in the field, Jeremiah W. Roth Conservation Biology Geographer (GIS) Kent State University [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]