MAY 06, 2017 - SUMMIT METRO PARKS BIKE & HIKE TRAIL FROM RT. 303 NORTH TO BOSTON MILLS RD. THEN C.V.N.P. TO PENINSULA. HIKE: Bike & Hike Trail north from Rt. 303 to Boston Mills Rd. then take old Akron-Peninsula Rd. south back to Peninsula. TIME: 8:00am - 10:50am TEMP.: 43 ~ 44 COND.: Overcast, steady mist to steady, cold drizzle; front coming slow from the north. FT.MI.: 4.25 OBS.: Douglas W. & Michelle Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 2 2. White-tailed Deer - 2 (unknown) II. BIRDS: 51 SPECIES, 140 TOTAL BIRDS. (NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 10 (5 goslings) 2. Mourning Dove - 1 3. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 4. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (along old Akron-Peninsula Rd. just before the Spicy Lamb Farm) 5. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (*) 6. Downy Woodpecker - 1 (?) 7. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*) 8. Northern Flicker - 3 (1f,2* - female using last year's Pileated Woodpecker nest hole) 9. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*) 10. Eastern Phoebe - 1 11. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 12. Blue Jay - 4 13. American Crow - 4 14. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 15. Black-capped Chickadee - 3 16. Tufted Titmouse - 5 17. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (*) 18. House Wren - 5 19. Carolina Wren - 1 20. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 (?) 21. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (m) 22. Wood Thrush - 2 23. American Robin - 5 24. Gray Catbird - 5 25. Brown Thrasher - 1 (along hedgerow/field across from Camp Ledgewood on old Akron-Peninsula Rd.) 26. European Starling - 2 27. House Sparrow - 4 28. Purple Finch - 7 (f - all in two Scotch pines along south side old Akron-Peninsula Rd. before last two houses on left - not a male to be found!) 29. American Goldfinch - 7 (2m,1f,3?,1*) 30. Ovenbird - 5 (2 along Bike & Hike Trail and 3 along old Akron-Peninsula Rd.) 31. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 32. Northern Waterthrush - 1 33. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 34. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m) 35. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (m) 36. Yellow Warbler - 1 (m) 37. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 (3m,2f) 38. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (m - decent warblers considering the weather, but one young oak had all 5 yellow-rumped's, the b&w warbler, and the btg warbler - behold the power of the oak!) 39. Eastern Towhee - 5 (3m,2*) 40. Chipping Sparrow - 4 41. Field Sparrow - 1 42. Song Sparrow - 5 43. White-throated Sparrow - 4 44. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 (possibly more? Singing at the Spicy Lamb Farm) 45. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (m - at Boston Ledges feeding on the rock faces and ferns - migrating or staying?) 46. Northern Cardinal - 4 (m) 47. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (m) 48. Red-winged Blackbird - 5 (3m,2f) 49. Common Grackle - 1 50. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 (3m,1f) 51. Baltimore Oriole - 3 (m) III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES, 1 TOTAL. 1. Red Eft (terrestrial form of the Red-spotted Newt) - 1 (crossing old Akron-Peninsula Rd. and ushered off the pavement before an oncoming jogger could end it!) Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]