MAY 12, 2013 - Metro Parks, Serving Summit County - Firestone Metro Park. TIME: 8:20am-11:20am TEMP.: 43-49 COND.: Mostly cloudy, chilly & breezy. FT.MI.: 2.0 OBS.: Douglas W. & Michelle Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 6 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 II. BIRDS: 68 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 8 (5 goslings) 2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f) 3. Mallard - 5 (4m,1f) 4. Double-crested Cormorant - 2 5. Great Blue Heron - 2 6. Turkey Vulture - 1 7. Osprey - 1 8. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f) 9. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 11. Spotted Sandpiper - 4 12. Mourning Dove - 1 13. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 14. Chimney Swift - 2 15. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (1m,2*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 3 (1m,2f) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (?) 19. Least Flycatcher - 2 20. Eastern Phoebe - 3 21. Warbling Vireo - 3 22. Red-eyed Vireo - 3 23. Blue Jay - 4 24. American Crow - 1 25. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 12 26. Bank Swallow - 1 27. Barn Swallow - 14 28. Black-capped Chickadee - 5 29. Tufted Titmouse - 4 30. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (f) 31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (m) 32. Carolina Wren - 2 33. House Wren - 2 34. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (f) 35. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m) 36. Veery - 1 37. Wood Thrush - 2 38. American Robin - 18 (2 nests) 39. Gray Catbird - 14 40. European Starling - 1 41. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m) 42. Tennessee Warbler - 1 (m) 43. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m) 44. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (m) 45. American Redstart - 2 (m) 46. Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m) 47. Yellow Warbler - 2 (m) 48. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (m) 49. Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m) 50. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (m) 51. Palm Warbler - 1 52. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 (2m,6f) 53. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (m) 54. Eastern Towhee - 2 (m) 55. Chipping Sparrow - 1 56. Song Sparrow - 8 57. Swamp Sparrow - 1 58. White-throated Sparrow - 6 59. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 60. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (1m,1f) 61. Northern Cardinal - 17 (11m,5f,1*) 62. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (3m,1f) 63. Red-winged Blackbird - 6 (4m,2f) 64. Common Grackle - 11 65. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (m) 66. Orchard Oriole - 1 (m) 67. Baltimore Oriole - 3 (m) 68. American Goldfinch - 4 (3m,1f) III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (heard) V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 1 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Oh. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]