MARCH 04, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:10am-3:50pm TEMP.: 32-41-32COND.: About 1&1/2 inches of fresh snow at start, melting away throughout the day; cloudy & calm all day.TRAIL COND.: Fresh snow early, easy walking; melting away to wet & muddy in parts; section from AkronCompost Facility south to Merriman Rd. in terrible, wet & muddy conditions due to heavy machinery &fence installation along trail for tree & brush removal along sewer trunk line.RIVER COND.: Higher than normal, swift & somewhat muddy.FT.MI.: 13.71 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
- Mink - 1
- Eastern Chipmunk - 2
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
- Red Squirrel - 12
- Beaver - 1 (Brandywine Creek)
- White-tailed Deer - 18 (does)
II. BIRDS: 43 SPECIES (lowest March total since start of census on 01/2010), 1 NEW SPECIES TO CENSUS.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
- Canada Goose - 183
- American Black Duck - 8 (4m,4f)
- Mallard - 37 (21m,15f,1*)
- Great Blue Heron - 36 (34 of them scared off their nests by immature Bald Eagle at Bath Rd.)
- Turkey Vulture - 2
- Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult,1 immature)
- Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 adult carrying a stick to new nest west of "Stanford Swamp" in sycamore tree)
- Ring-billed Gull - 31
- Rock Pigeon - 23
- Mourning Dove - 12
- Great Horned Owl - 1 (hooting at 2:22pm between Cuyahoga River & Riverview Rd. at Lock 24 - hooted 6 times. New Species on Census - now at 177 species since January 2010).
- Belted Kingfisher - 3 (m)
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (5m,3f,1?,7*)
- Downy Woodpecker - 15 (5m,4f,2?,4*)
- Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (1f,3?,2*)
- Northern Flicker - 2 (*)
- Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (4m,1*)
- Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m)
- Blue Jay - 30
- American Crow - 76
- Black-capped Chickadee - 25
- Tufted Titmouse - 18
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 (6m,1f,1?,6*)
- Winter Wren - 2 (Tied Census High from 11/2010, 12/2010 & 11/2011)
- Carolina Wren - 8
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1f)
- Eastern Bluebird - 18 (12m,6f)
- American Robin - 47
- European Starling - 178
- Eastern Towhee - 1 (m)
- American Tree Sparrow - 19
- Song Sparrow - 15
- Swamp Sparrow - 1
- White-throated Sparrow - 6
- Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (4m,1f,1*)
- Northern Cardinal - 55 (42m,9f,4*)
- Red-winged Blackbird - 92 (89m,3f)
- Rusty Blackbird - 21 (17m,4f - at Szalay's corn stubble field)
- Common Grackle - 7
- Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 (2m,1f)
- House Finch - 4 (2m,1f,1*)
- American Goldfinch - 10
- House Sparrow - 30
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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