JAN. 31, 2009 - CVNP Towpath Trail.
HIKE: Towpath Trail from Bruegger's Bagels on Merriman Rd. north to the sewer line underpass at Smith Rd. (too much snow on Towpath Trail to hike), then take Riverview Rd. north to Rt. 303 east into Peninsula.
TIME: 8:00am-12:30pm TEMP.: 8-25-24 COND.: Cold early, clear blue skies at 9:00am, clouding up at 10:50am, mostly sunny from 11:30am-11:45am, then clouding up again with winds from the south 5-10mph.
FT.MI.: 8.50 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
2. Red Squirrel - 2
II. BIRDS: 37 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen)
1. Canada Goose - 2
2. Wood Duck - 1 (f - Cuyahoga River at Bath Rd. & Riverview Rd.)
3. Mallard - 97 (62m,35f - Bath & Riverview Rds.)
4. Horned Grebe - 1 (Cuyahoga River south of Ira Rd. near the locks)
5. Great Blue Heron - 1
6. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult at Bath & Riverview Rds.)
7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. m)
8. Red-tailed Hawk - 2
9. Ring-billed Gull - 111 (following Cuyahoga River south)
10. Herring Gull - 16 (with RBGulls)
11. Mourning Dove - 2
12. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2m,1*)
13. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 (3m,1f,3*)
14. Downy Woodpecker - 22 (5m,4f,4?,9*)
15. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1f,1?,1*)
16. Northern Flicker - 1 (?)
17. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*)
18. Blue Jay - 31
19. American Crow - 33
20. Black-capped Chickadee - 38
21. Tufted Titmouse - 18
22. White-breasted Nuthatch - 11 (4m,7*)
23. Brown Creeper - 1
24. Eastern Bluebird - 5 (2m,3f)
25. Hermit Thrush - 1 (along Riverview Rd. east of Tree Farm Trail)
26. American Robin - 13
27. European Starling - 139
28. American Tree Sparrow - 9
29. White-throated Sparrow - 7
30. Dark-eyed Junco - 9 (4m,4f,1*)
31. Northern Cardinal - 47 (21m,19f,7*)
32. Common Grackle - 3
33. Brown-headed Cowbird - 28 (9m,5f,14?)
34. House Finch - 5 (1m,4*)
35. Pine Siskin - 8 (1 at Ira Lot,2 at Indigo Lake,1 at Everett and
4 at a Peninsula feeder behind the Kilted Yak)
36. American Goldfinch - 20
37. House Sparrow - 30

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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