DECEMBER 03, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:10am-2:40pm TEMP.: 21-54-52 COND.: Frosty early, then sunny, pleasant, few clouds.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (1 black phase)
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 7
3. Red Squirrel - 20
4. White-tailed Deer - 32 (4 bucks: three 8-pt., one 4-pt., 28 doe)
II. BIRDS: 41 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 52
2. American Black Duck - 1 (f)
3. Mallard - 32 (18m,14f)
4. Great Blue Heron - 4
5. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1 imm. m,1 imm. f)
6. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 imm.)
7. Killdeer - 14 (Szalay's NE corn field)
8. Ring-billed Gull - 4
9. Herring Gull - 1
10. Rock Pigeon - 37
11. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (calling south of old Jaite Paper Mill property)
12. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1f)
13. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 (4m,3f,1?,3*)
14. Downy Woodpecker - 18 (8m,3f,2?,5*)
15. Hairy Woodpecker - 8 (2m,3f,3*)
16. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (2?,2*)
17. Blue Jay - 25
18. American Crow - 62
19. Black-capped Chickadee - 33
20. Tufted Titmouse - 18
21. White-breasted Nuthatch - 15 (7m,2f,6*)
22. Brown Creeper - 1
23. Carolina Wren - 9
24. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (?)
25. Eastern Bluebird - 7 (3m,4f)
26. European Starling - 124
27. Cedar Waxwing - 10
28. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
29. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)
30. American Tree Sparrow - 35
31. Song Sparrow - 16
32. Swamp Sparrow - 1
33. White-throated Sparrow - 18
34. Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (1m,1f)
35. Northern Cardinal - 54 (31m,17f,6*)
36. Red-winged Blackbird - 7 (5m,2f)
37. Rusty Blackbird - 29 (Szalay's SW corn field)
38. House Finch - 3 (1m,2f)
39. Pine Siskin - 1 (along Towpath between I-271 & Ohio Turnpike bridges)
40. American Goldfinch - 21
41. House Sparrow - 72

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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