APR. 21, 2007 - Cleveland Metro Parks Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation Towpath Trail - Rockside Rd. north to Canalway Visitor Center connector trail & back. TIME: 8:00am-11:50am TEMP.: 40-72 COND.: Cool early, warming throughout; warm, sunny, blue skies & cloudless; beautiful. FT.MI.: 7.6 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 II. BIRDS: 39 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 43 (3 birds on nests) 2. Mallard - 16 (15m,1f) 3. Double-crested Cormorant - 1 4. Great Blue Heron - 8 5. Turkey Vulture - 4 6. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 7. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (one of the I-480 bridge pair) 8. Killdeer - 13 9. Greater Yellowlegs - 1 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 11. Bonaparte's Gull - 12 (1 flock following Cuyahoga River north to Lake Erie) 12. Ring-billed Gull - 7 13. Rock Pigeon - 12 14. Mourning Dove - 9 15. Chimney Swift - 1 16. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2m,1f) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 1 (*) 18. Northern Flicker - 7 (1m,1f,5*) 19. Eastern Phoebe - 1 20. Blue Jay - 5 21. American Crow - 2 22. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4 23. Barn Swallow - 4 24. Tufted Titmouse - 1 25. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (1?,1*) 26. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (?) 27. American Robin - 47 (2 nests being built) 28. Northern Mockingbird - 1 29. European Starling - 24 30. Chipping Sparrow - 3 31. Savannah Sparrow - 3 32. Song Sparrow - 20 33. Northern Cardinal - 11 (8m,2f,1*) 34. Red-winged Blackbird - 31 (25m,6f) 35. Common Grackle - 29 (3 nests being built) 36. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 (8m,4f) 37. House Finch - 4 (2m,2*) 28. American Goldfinch - 28 (15m,4f,4?,5*) 29. House Sparrow - 27 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIE. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 61 IV. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 14 2. Bluegill - 7 V. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage White - 1 2. Unidentified 'blue' - 1 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]