New Ohio eBird Hot Spot Furnace Run Metro Park—Brushwood area Richfield, Ohio Summit County Coordinates: 41.268, -81.639 (paste into a Google search or the eBird mapping tool) Furnace Run Metro Park features a small sledding hill and trails for hiking and cross-country skiing. Anglers can drop a line in Brushwood Lake for bass, bluegill, catfish and perch. Brushwood Pavilion, a converted 1930s bath house, can be reserved for parties, meetings and other gatherings. There are two wooded trails, Old Mill (1 mile) and Rock Creek (1.2 miles). The 890-acre Furnace Run Metro Park began in 1929 when the family of Charles Francis Brush Jr. donated 272 acres to Metro Parks. Much of the park was developed by work relief crews during the 1930s. Brushwood Lake, a once-popular swimming spot before erosion and sedimentation forced its closing in 1956, was created by diverting the natural flow of the Furnace Run. For more information on Furnace Run Metro Park visit: http://www.summitmetroparks.org/ParksAndTrails/FurnaceRun.aspx You can download a map of Furnace Run: http://www.summitmetroparks.org/App_Themes/MetroParks/images/fall/parks/trail_maps/FR.pdf Ken Ostermiller eBird Hot Spot reviewer for 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]