DECEMBER 04, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd.
TIME: 6:55am-1:20pm TEMP.: 19-34 COND.: Chilly early, mostly cloudy all day.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Coyote - 1
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black phase)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
4. Red Squirrel - 12
5. White-tailed Deer - 6 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 45 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 39
>. Feral/Domestic/Barnyard "Greylag Goose" - 1
2. Mallard - 51 (32m,19f)
3. Great Blue Heron - 4
4. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. m)
5. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
6. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
7. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - under Turnpike bridge)
8. Herring Gull - 4
9. Rock Pigeon - 34
10. Mourning Dove - 45
11. Belted Kingfisher - 5 (m)
12. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 18 (5m,3f,4?,6*)
13. Downy Woodpecker - 22 (8m,7f,7*)
14. Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (2m,2f,1?,4*)
15. Northern Flicker - 3 (1m,1f,1*)
16. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*)
17. Blue Jay - 43
18. American Crow - 54
19. Black-capped Chickadee - 58
20. Tufted Titmouse - 25
21. White-breasted Nuthatch - 25 (9m,2f,2?,12*)
22. Brown Creeper - 3
23. Carolina Wren - 9
24. Winter Wren - 2
25. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7 (2f,3?,2*)
26. Eastern Bluebird - 22 (9m,9f,4?)
27. American Robin - 47
28. European Starling - 94
29. American Pipit - 12 (Szalay's cornfield west of Bolanz Rd. parking lot)
30. Cedar Waxwing - 239 (all in one stretch just south of compost facility)
31. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
32. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m)
33. American Tree Sparrow - 57
34. Fox Sparrow - 1
35. Song Sparrow - 10
36. Swamp Sparrow - 5
37. White-throated Sparrow - 33
38. Dark-eyed Junco - 8 (4m,1f,1?,2*)
39. Northern Cardinal - 75 (35m,21f,19*)
40. Red-winged Blackbird - 106 (12m,18f,76?)
41. Rusty Blackbird - 201 (mix of males & females at Szalay's cornfield)
42. Brown-headed Cowbird - 26 (16m,10f - mixed in with the Rusty's at Szalay's)
43. House Finch - 4 (1m,2f,1*)
44. American Goldfinch - 49
45. House Sparrow - 18
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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