Enjoyed a very peaceful walk last evening starting at the small parking lot at the corner of Dunham Rd and Alexander Rd in Cleveland Metroparks Bedford Reservation. Following the paved trail I got about 500 feet and spent a good ½ hour just looking at all the birds feeding in the trees along the trail. There must have been a hatching of insects that the birds were feeding on. I continued walking north along the trail until intersecting with the Buckeye Trail which took me to a large open meadow under the power lines. These are some of the many birds I saw. Tufted titmouse – adults and fledglings - 5 Black capped chickadee – adults and fledglings – 7 Cardinal – adult and fledglings – 5 White-breasted nuthatch – 1 Scarlet Tanager – 1 Rufous-sided towhee – 1 Bluebird - 1 Blue Jay – 3 Song Sparrow – 2 Hairy woodpecker – 1 Downy woodpecker – 1 Crows – 3 Red-bellied woodpecker – 2 Goldfinch – 6 Catbird – with food in beak – 1 Jo Ann Kubicki Information Specialist CanalWay Center 4524 East 49th Street Cuyahoga Hts, Ohio 44125 216-206-1000 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This message and any response to it may constitute a public record and thus may be publicly available to anyone who requests it. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]