Yesterday Naturalist Pat Rydquist of Metroparks Serving Summit County led the first of 5 Friday morning bird walks held at Firestone Park (7:30 am) Here are the species found by the 30 or so of us who gathered yesterday and gather each spring to bird watch and get reacquainted: Black and White Warbler Nashville Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Brown Thrasher Veery Hermit Thrush Blue-heaed Vireo Winter Wren Screech Owl Northern Cardinal Ruby Crowned Kinglet American Robin White throated Sparrow Mallard Duck Blue Jay Wood Duck Blue winged Teal Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-bellied Woodpecker American Goldfinch Eastern Towhee Downy Woodpecker Brown-headed Cowbird Tufted Titmouse Tree Swallow Mourning Dove American Crow Turkey Vulture Red-winged blackbird Black-capped chickadee Common Grackle Eastern Phoebe White-breasted nuthatch Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Canada Geese At the lake across from Firestone Golf course: Osprey Ruddy Ducks Double-crested Cormorants Janet Wertz ______________________________________________________________________ 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]