JAN. 01, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park - Monthly Towpath Trail Report.
HIKE: Red Lock south to Botzum Trailhead. TIME: 7:15am-1:30pm TEMP.: 33-30-35-27
COND.: Wind NW at 5-15mph until 8:15am; cloudy with light snow all day, temp dropping.
FT.MI.: 11.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (1 black phase)
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
3. Red Squirrel - 10
4. White-tailed Deer -15 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 39 SPECIES (plus 1 feral/domestic,1 exotic/escape,1 hybrid)
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen)
1. Canada Goose - 196
>. Feral/domestic "Barnyard" Goose - 1
>. Black Swan - 1
2. American Black Duck - 10 (5m,5f)
3. Mallard - 36 (20m,13f,3*)
>. American Black Duck/Mallard hybrid - 1 (m)
4. Great Blue Heron - 4
5. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
6. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 immature)
7. Killdeer - 1 (flyover heading south at Bath Rd. & Rivervirew Rd. intersection)
8. Ring-billed Gull - 30
9. Mourning Dove - 20
10. Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 (1 gray phase,1* - called in by voice at old Jaite Paper Mill)
11. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,2*)
12. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 17 (9m,2f,6*)
13. Downy Woodpecker - 26 (9m,8f,1?,8*)
14. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1f,1?,1*)
15. Northern Flicker - 5 (1f,1?,3*)
16. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (3?,1*)
17. Blue Jay - 23
18. American Crow - 59
19. Black-capped Chickadee - 39
20. Tufted Titmouse - 20
21. White-breasted Nuthatch - 17 (10m,2f,1?,4*)
22. Carolina Wren - 4
23. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 (1m,1f,3?)
24. Eastern Bluebird - 19 (6m,8f,5?)
25. American Robin - 181
26. European Starling - 237
27. Cedar Waxwing - 12
28. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 (all together north of Lock 29)
29. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m - at Bolanz Lot)
30. American Tree Sparrow - 18
31. Song Sparrow - 10
32. Swamp Sparrow - 1 (marsh between Stanford Rd. and Towpath Trail)
33. White-throated Sparrow - 5
34. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (3m,2f,1*)
35. Northern Cardinal - 61 (28m,26f,7*)
36. Red-winged Blackbird - 22 (16m,6f - coming off roost from phragmites between Stanford Rd. and Towpath Trail)
37. House Finch - 2 (1f,1*)
38. American Goldfinch - 34
39. House Sparrow - 4

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.




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