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JAN. 01, 2008 - HIKE: Ira Rd. parking lot across Riverview Rd. to Cuyahoga Valley Scenic R.R. tracks north to Indigo Lake to Hale Farm & Village Connector Trail to Oak Hill Rd. to Everett Rd. covered bridge to Covered Bridge/Oak Hill Trail to Rim Trail to Meadowedge Pond Trail to Plateau Trail to Oak Hill Trail to Plateau Trail to Valley Picnic Area across Riverview Rd. to Towpath Trail south back to Ira parking lot.
  TIME: 7:15am-11:25am TEMP.: 32 COND.: Overcast, very windy, some gusts 50+mph (sounding very much like a jet taking off, up out of the valley, like a windy "tidal surge") - very impressive yet lucky not to be nailed by flying limbs - light snow starting at 9:15am changing to steady snow by 10:35am resulting in limited visibility, gusts dying down to breezy.
  VEH.MI.: 9.4 FT.MI.: 5.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
  I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
  1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1
  2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
  3. Red Squirrel - 1
  4. White-tailed Deer - 7 (7pt. buck,spike buck,4 does,1 unknown)
  II. BIRDS: 24 SPECIES.
  (NOTE: *= bird was heard but not seen)
  1. Canada Goose - 175
  2. Mallard - 22 (11m,11f)
  3. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (immature)
  4. Mourning Dove - 1
  5. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 (1f,3*)
  6. Downy Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1*)
  7. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1m,1f,1*)
  8. Blue Jay - 8
  9. American Crow - 54
  10. Black-capped Chickadee - 15
  11. Tufted Titmouse - 5
  12. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 (1m,6*)
  13. Carolina Wren - 1
  14. American Robin - 3
  15. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
  16. American Tree Sparrow - 8
  17. Song Sparrow - 2
  18. White-throated Sparrow - 6
  19. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 (juv. between Szalay's field & Towpath south of Bolanz Rd.)
  20. Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (*)
  21. Northern Cardinal - 52 (27m,18f,7*)
  22. Red-winged Blackbird - 1 (m at Bolanz lot)
  23. American Goldfinch - 7
  24. House Sparrow - 3
  Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.


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