NOVEMBER 03, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 8:00am-3:45pm TEMP.: 38-44-41 COND.: Steady light rain from 8:00am-10:50am; 
a couple of intermittent sprinkles from 12:20pm-1:30pm; overcast all day.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Boston), John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 4
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 7 (1 black phase)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
4. Red Squirrel - 12
5. White-tailed Deer - 6 (8-pt. buck,4 doe,1?)
II. BIRDS: 55 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 42
2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f)
3. American Black Duck - 6 (3m,3f)
4. Mallard - 32 (19m,13f)
5. Ring-necked Duck - 2 (f)
6. Pied-billed Grebe - 3
7. Great Blue Heron - 3
8. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
9. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juvenile f)
10. Red-shouldered Hawk - 4
11. Red-tailed Hawk - 1
12. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m)
13. Bonaparte's Gull - 1
14. Ring-billed Gull - 483
15. Rock Pigeon - 28
16. Mourning Dove - 11
17. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1*)
18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 (3m,4*)
19. Downy Woodpecker - 14 (8m,4f,2*)
20. Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,2f,2?,4*)
21. Northern Flicker - 3 (2m,1*)
22. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (2m,1f)
23. Eastern Phoebe - 1
24. Blue Jay - 25
25. American Crow - 63
26. Black-capped Chickadee - 21
27. Tufted Titmouse - 16
28. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 (2m,2f,1?,9*)
29. Brown Creeper - 3
30. Carolina Wren - 8
31. Winter Wren - 1
32. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7 (2f,3?,2*)
33. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (2m,1*)
34. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (1m,1f,1*)
35. American Robin - 34
36. European Starling - 7
37. Cedar Waxwing - 91
38. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 9
39. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1f)
40. American Tree Sparrow - 5
41. Field Sparrow - 1
42. Fox Sparrow - 1
43. Song Sparrow - 21
44. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
45. Swamp Sparrow - 2
46. White-throated Sparrow - 36
47. White-crowned Sparrow - 3
48. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (1m,1f,4?)
49. Northern Cardinal - 35 (13m,13f,9*)
50. Red-winged Blackbird - 75 (2m,1f,72?)
51. Rusty Blackbird - 26
52. Common Grackle - 41
53. House Finch - 1 (m)
54. American Goldfinch - 40
55. House Sparrow - 30
III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Gizzard Shad - 5 (being caught by Ring-billed Gulls in Cuyahoga River at Stumpy Basin)

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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