MAY 17, 2009 - Firestone Metro Park, Akron, Ohio. TIME: 6:45am-10:45am TEMP.: 47-56 COND.: Chilly early turning mostly sunny, windy from 9:00am on. FT.MI.: 1.75 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Woodchuck - 2 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 13 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 4. Red Squirrel - 1 5. Beaver - 1 II. BIRDS: 72 SPECIES. (?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 2 2. Wood Duck - 1 (f) 3. Mallard - 5 (4m,1f) 4. Ruddy Duck - 1 (m - with broken wing in Tuscarawas River at spillway) 5. Double-crested Cormorant - 6 6. Great Blue Heron - 1 7. Turkey Vulture - 2 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 9. Rock Pigeon - 6 10. Mourning Dove - 1 11. Chimney Swift - 14 12. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (m) 13. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (1f,1?,1*) 14. Downy Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1*) 15. Northern Flicker - 3 (2?,1*) 16. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 17. Willow Flycatcher - 2 18. Least Flycatcher - 1 Unidentified Empidonax flycatcher - 1 19. Eastern Phoebe - 2 20. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 21. White-eyed Vireo - 2 22. Warbling Vireo - 6 23. Red-eyed Vireo - 7 24. Blue Jay - 12 (1 on nest) 25. American Crow - 2 26. Tree Swallow - 2 27. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 6 28. Barn Swallow - 2 29. Black-capped Chickadee - 9 30. Tufted Titmouse - 4 31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (1m,2?) 32. House Wren - 3 33. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 (*) 34. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m) 35. Veery - 1 36. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 37. Swainson's Thrush - 2 38. American Robin - 57 39. Gray Catbird - 13 40. European Starling - 39 41. Cedar Waxwing - 9 42. Tennessee Warbler - 1 (m) 43. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m) 44. Yellow Warbler - 10 (8m,2f) 45. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 (2m,2f) 46. Magnolia Warbler - 4 (3m,1f) 47. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 (1m,1f) 48. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (f) 49. Blackpoll Warbler - 3 (m) 50. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m) 51. American Redstart - 4 (1m,3f) 52. Northern Waterthrush - 2 53. Mourning Warbler - 1 (m) 54. Common Yellowthroat - 2 (m) 55. Hooded Warbler - 1 (m) 56. Wilson's Warbler - 2 (m) 57. Canada Warbler - 1 (m) 58. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (m) 59. Eastern Towhee - 2 (m) 60. Song Sparrow - 18 61. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 62. White-throated Sparrow - 1 63. Northern Cardinal - 23 (15m,6f,2*) 64. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (m) 65. Indigo Bunting - 2 (1m,1f) 66. Red-winged Blackbird - 10 (9m,1f) 67. Common Grackle - 13 (1 carrying a robin's egg) 68. Brown-headed Cowbird - 7 (6m,1f) 69. Baltimore Oriole - 7 70. House Finch - 2 (*) 71. American Goldfinch - 14 (6m,5f,1?,2*) 72. House Sparrow - 3 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 4 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Green Frog - (*) V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 3 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]