First Audubon bird walk took place at Cleveland Metroparks Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation, CanalWay in Cuyahoga County April 11th. Great morning. Yellow-bellied sapsuckers - 5 - two sets courtship displaying Palm warbler - 2 Yellow-rumped warblers - 2 Northern flicker - 12 - some courtship displaying Downy woodpecker - one set courtship displaying Eastern phoebe - 11 - one with nesting material Golden-crowned kinglet - 4 Hermit thrush - 3 Eastern towhee - 1 Chipping sparrow - 4 Swamp sparrow - 1 Song sparrow - 9 White-throated sparrow - 14 - Many singing White-crowned sparrow - 3 Dark-eyed junco - 6 Tree swallow - 7 Canada geese - 10 Wood Duck - 7 - two sets paired up Mallard - 9 - one set paired up Blue-winged teal - 1 Double-crested cormorant - 1 Great blue heron - 27 Turkey vulture - 2 Northern harrier - 1 Red-tailed hawk - 2 Killdeer - 1 Rock pigeon - 5 Mourning dove - 9 Belted kingfisher - 2 Red-bellied woodpecker - 9 Blue jay - 5 American crow - 2 Black-capped chickadee - 6 Tufted titmouse - 1 White-breasted nuthatch - 1 American robin - 73 - 2 nest building Northern mockingbird - 2 Europeon starling - 18 - some with nesting material Northern cardinal - 25 Red-winged blackbird - 45 Common grackle - 15 Brown-headed cowbird - 18 - courtship displaying House finch - 2 American goldfinch - 10 House sparrow - 2 Jo Ann Kubicki Information Specialist Cleveland Metroparks CanalWay Center 4524 East 49th Street Cuyahoga Hts, Ohio 44125 216-206-1000 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]