JANUARY 01, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:30am-4:15pm TEMP.: 30-31-24 COND.: Cloudy all day with very light snow from 12:30pm-2:50pm
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry (Red Lock to Bolanz Rd.) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 7
2. Red Squirrel - 2
3. White-tailed Deer - 12 (1 spike buck,11 doe)
II. BIRDS: 48 SPECIES, 1 HYBRID, 1 EXOTIC/ESCAPE.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen) 
1. Canada Goose - 306
E. Greylag Goose - 1
2. Tundra Swan - 17 (one flock fly-over heading south)
3. Wood Duck - 4 (1m,3f)
4. American Black Duck - 22 (12m,9f,1?)
5. Mallard - 264 (153m,111f)
H. American Black Duck/X/Mallard - 1 (m)
6. Common Merganser - 3 (2m,1f)
7. Great Blue Heron - 3
8. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
9. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (f)
10. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
11. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
12. Merlin - 1 (m)
13. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f - the Ohio Turnpike pair)
14. Killdeer - 1 (fly-over at the Akron Compost Facility)
15. Ring-billed Gull - 736
16. Herring Gull - 6
17. Rock Pigeon - 6
18. Mourning Dove - 10
19. Barred Owl - 1 (*)
20. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1?)
21. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 22 (8m,6f,3?,5*)
22. Downy Woodpecker - 22 (4m,9f,2?,7*)
23. Hairy Woodpecker - 12 (5f,2?,5*)
24. Northern Flicker - 1 (*)
25. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1m,3*)
26. Blue Jay - 18
27. American Crow - 376
28. Black-capped Chickadee - 36
29. Tufted Titmouse - 19
30. White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 (6m,1f,5?,4*)
31. Brown Creeper - 1
32. Carolina Wren - 9
33. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1?)
34. Eastern Bluebird - 24 (16m,6f,2?)
35. American Robin - 12
36. European Starling - 224
37. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1f)
38. American Tree Sparrow - 22
39. Field Sparrow - 4 (all together in field along Towpath Trail north of Boston Cemetery)
40. Song Sparrow - 17
41. Swamp Sparrow - 4
42. White-throated Sparrow - 17
43. Dark-eyed Junco - 11 (3m,7f,1*)
44. Northern Cardinal - 50 (32m,15f,3*)
45. House Finch - 16 (5m,3f,8?)
46. American Goldfinch - 33
47. Evening Grosbeak - 1 (fly-over female north of Boston)
48. House Sparrow - 13

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.


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