OCT. 24, 2009 - Metro Parks Serving Summit County - Silver Creek Metro Park. HIKE: Chippewa Trail and bird Silver Creek Lake. TIME: 9:00am-11:45am TEMP.: 53-56 COND.: Overcast, cloudy and cool. FT.MI.: 2.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus, Michelle M. Zager. I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 7 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 7 II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 464 2. Wood Duck - 3 (1m,2f) 3. American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f) 4. Mallard - 56 (38m,18f) 5. Ruddy Duck - 1 (f) 6. Great Blue Heron - 2 7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) 8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 10. American Coot - 23 11. Killdeer - 1 12. Ring-billed Gull - 82 13. Barred Owl - 2 14. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*) 15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*) 16. Downy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,2f,1*) 17. Northern Flicker - 1 (m) 18. Blue Jay - 12 19. American Crow - 8 20. Black-capped Chickadee - 14 21. Tufted Titmouse - 3 22. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (1m,1f) 23. Winter Wren - 1 24. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1f) 25. Eastern Bluebird - 10 (5m,5f) 26. American Robin - 56 27. European Starling - 19 28. Cedar Waxwing - 60 29. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 30. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (f) 31. Eastern Towhee - 2 (1f,1*) 32. Field Sparrow - 1 33. Song Sparrow - 5 34. White-throated Sparrow - 6 35. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (*) 36. Northern Cardinal - 10 (5m,3f,2*) 37. Red-winged Blackbird - 233 38. Eastern Meadowlark - 2 39. Common Grackle - 1,962 40. House Finch - 3 (*) III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (*) 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]