NOV. 06, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:45am-2:40pm
TEMP.: 33-41-39 COND.: First snow of the winter overnight, about 1 inch of snow on ground at Red Lock, decreasing to just a light dusting moving south to Szalay's Farm; no snow south of Szalay's to end of hike; cloudy & calm all day; very wet from snow melting off branches; light rain from 2:15pm-2:40pm.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 7
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (2 black phase)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
4. Red Squirrel - 10
5. White-tailed Deer - 10 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 52 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 38
2. Tundra Swan - 26 (1 flock heading south above Brandywine ski area)
3. Wood Duck - 12 (4m,6f,2*)
4. American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f)
5. Mallard - 46 (23m,11f,11?,1*)
6. Pied-billed Grebe - 1
7. Double-crested Cormorant - 9
8. Great Blue Heron - 5
9. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
10. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
11. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
12. Merlin - 1 (f)
13. Killdeer - 3
14. Ring-billed Gull - 4
15. Rock Pigeon - 51
16. Mourning Dove - 13
17. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*)
18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 22 (8m,7f,2?,5*)
19. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
20. Downy Woodpecker - 19 (6m,8f,5*)
21. Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (3f,2?,4*)
22. Northern Flicker - 1 (*)
23. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1?,2*)
24. Blue Jay - 50
25. American Crow - 74
26. Black-capped Chickadee - 55
27. Tufted Titmouse - 16
28. White-breasted Nuthatch - 20 (9m,3f,1?,7*)
29. Brown Creeper - 2
30. Carolina Wren - 13
31. Winter Wren - 2
32. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7 (2f,3?,2*)
33. Eastern Bluebird - 32 (16m,14f,2*)
34. American Robin - 78
35. European Starling - 131
36. Cedar Waxwing - 37
37. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 11
38. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)
39. American Tree Sparrow - 19
40. Fox Sparrow - 3
41. Song Sparrow - 18
42. Swamp Sparrow - 5
43. White-throated Sparrow - 29
44. Dark-eyed Junco - 20 (7m,9f,3?,1*)
45. Northern Cardinal - 50 (23m,13f,14*)
46. Red-winged Blackbird - 71 (42m,20f,9?)
47. Rusty Blackbird - 4 (2m,2f)
48. Common Grackle - 1
49. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 (3m,1f)
50. House Finch - 5 (1m,2f,2?)
51. American Goldfinch - 41
52. House Sparrow - 27
III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
 




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