*MAY 19, 2018 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK.* *HIKE*: Tree Farm Trail & the Coliseum Grasslands. *DRIVE*: the length of Major Rd. *TIME*: 7:15am - 1:00pm *TEMP.*: 63 ~ 79 *COND.*: Overcast early with light sprinkles, giving way to clouds/sun mix and breezy south winds. *VEH.MI.*: 9.0 *FT.MI.*: 3.75 *OBS.*: Douglas W. & Michelle Vogus. *I. MAMMALS*: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 8 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (1 black morph) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 4. Red Squirrel - 2 *II. BIRDS*: 71 SPECIES. (NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 15 (4 goslings) 2. Wood Duck - 1 (f) 3. Mallard - 2 (m) 4. Common Merganser - 1 (f) (seen from hill west of Heritage Farms - flew south above Peninsula, then turned around and headed north) 5. Rock Pigeon - 2 6. Mourning Dove - 6 7. Chimney Swift - 6 8. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (m) 9. Killdeer - 2 10. Great Blue Heron - 8 (1 at Horseshoe Pond and 7 fly-overs) 11. Green Heron - 2 12. Turkey Vulture - 6 13. Osprey - 1 (fly-over headed east above Coliseum Grasslands) 14. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 15. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 16. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (*) 18. Downy Woodpecker - 2 (*) 19. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*) 20. Northern Flicker - 4 (2f,1?,1*) 21. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) 22. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5 23. Eastern Phoebe - 3 (1 nest) 24. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 25. Eastern Kingbird - 4 26. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 27. Warbling Vireo - 3 28. Red-eyed Vireo - 10 29. Blue Jay - 9 30. American Crow - 12 31. Tree Swallow - 1 32. Barn Swallow - 16 33. Black-capped Chickadee - 13 34. Tufted Titmouse - 12 35. House Wren - 7 36. Carolina Wren - 1 37. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*) 38. Veery - 1 39. Swainson's Thrush - 2 40. Wood Thrush - 1 41. American Robin - 17 42. Gray Catbird - 12 43. Brown Thrasher - 2 44. European Starling - 13 45. Cedar Waxwing - 9 46. House Sparrow - 6 47. American Goldfinch - 20 (10m,2f,7?,1*) 48. Blue-winged Warbler - 9 (m) 49. Tennessee Warbler - 9 (m) 50. Common Yellowthroat - 19 (18m,1*) 51. Hooded Warbler - 8 (7m,1*) 52. American Redstart - 1 (m) 53. Yellow Warbler - 6 (m) 54. Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m) 55. Pine Warbler - 1 (m) 56. Wilson's Warbler - 1 (m) 57. Eastern Towhee - 9 (7m,1f,1*) 58. Chipping Sparrow - 9 59. Field Sparrow - 5 60. Savannah Sparrow - 1 61. Song Sparrow - 24 62. Scarlet Tanager - 3 (m) 63. Northern Cardinal - 19 (15m,3f,1*) 64. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (3m,1f) 65. Indigo Bunting - 6 (m) 66. Bobolink - 11 (8m,3f) 67. Red-winged Blackbird - 41 (33m,8f) 68. Eastern Meadowlark - 5 69. Common Grackle - 14 70. Brown-headed Cowbird - 6 (4m,2f) 71. Baltimore Oriole - 4 (m) *III. REPTILES*: 1 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Milk Snake - 1 *IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 2 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (calling) 2. Green Frog - 1 (calling) *V. BUTTERFLIES*: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 1 3. Clouded Sulphur - 1 4. Spring Azure - 1 5. Pearl Crescent - 1 6. Monarch - 1 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]