NOVEMBER 01, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:45am-4:45pm TEMP.: 39-40-37 COND.: Gray & overcast with
intermittent mist/light sprinkles; steady light drizzle from 1:45pm-2:55pm; rain ending & becoming partly cloudy with some sun.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
- Mink - 2 (New Census High - previous was 1 on 04/2013, 06/2013 & 03/2014)
- Eastern Chipmunk - 3
- Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (2 black morph)
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
- Red Squirrel - 12
- Muskrat - 1
- White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 50 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
- Canada Goose - 236
- American Black Duck - 7 (4m,3f)
- Mallard - 48 (33m,15f)
- Ring-necked Duck - 4 (1m,3f)
- Hooded Merganser - 2 (m)
- Pied-billed Grebe - 1
- Great Blue Heron - 1
- Turkey Vulture - 1
- Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
- Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 (1 adult m,1 imm. f) (New Census High - previous was 1 on 10/2013 & 11/2013)
- Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1 adult f,1 imm. f) (Tied Census High on 10 occasions)
- Red-tailed Hawk - 7 (1 immature)
- Killdeer - 6
- Ring-billed Gull - 11
- Rock Pigeon - 4
- Mourning Dove - 12
- Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2m,1*)
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 29 (8m,6f,2?,13*) New Census High - previous was 22 on 5 occasions)
- Downy Woodpecker - 22 (7m,8f,1?,6*)
- Hairy Woodpecker - 14 (3m,5f,1?,5*)
- Pileated Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,4?)
- Eastern Phoebe - 1
- Blue Jay - 55 (New Census High - previous was 54 on 10/2010)
- American Crow - 374
- Black-capped Chickadee - 26
- Tufted Titmouse - 15
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 18 (9m,4f,2?,3*)
- Brown Creeper - 3 (Tied Census High on 5 occasions)
- Carolina Wren - 13
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 (2m,1*)
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1?)
- Eastern Bluebird - 8 (3m,2f,3?)
- American Robin - 129
- Northern Mockingbird - 1 (Tied Census High on 10/2010)
- European Starling - 343
- Cedar Waxwing - 168
- Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7
- Fox Sparrow - 1
- Song Sparrow - 23
- Swamp Sparrow - 2
- White-throated Sparrow - 59 (New Census High - previous was 36 on 11/2012 & 02/2014)
- Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (2m,1f,3?)
- Northern Cardinal - 52 (21m,16f,15*)
- Red-winged Blackbird - 107 (mixed flocks)
- Rusty Blackbird - 14 (7m,5f,2*)
- Common Grackle - 14
- Purple Finch - 2 (f)
- House Finch - 2 (?)
- American Goldfinch - 30
- House Sparrow - 31
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Oh.
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