MARCH 01, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:10am-2:20pm TEMP.: 29-33-27
COND.: Cloudy with steady, light snow from 7:40am until end of hike.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), John Henry, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 4
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black phase)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6
4. Red Squirrel - 11
5. White-tailed Deer - 12 (7-pt. buck, 11 doe)
II. BIRDS: 44 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 94
2. American Black Duck - 3 (1m,2f)
3. Mallard - 37 (23m,14f)
4. Northern Pintail - 5 (3m,2f)
5. Ring-necked Duck - 1 (m)
6. Common Merganser - 1 (m)
7. Great Blue Heron - 13
8. Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
9. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
10. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
11. Ring-billed Gull - 4
12. Rock Pigeon - 1
13. Mourning Dove - 14
14. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (red morph)
15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (2m,2f,1?,5*)
16. Downy Woodpecker - 11 (3m,2f,1?,5*)
17. Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (2?,4*)
18. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1*)
19. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f)
20. Blue Jay - 20
21. American Crow - 123
22. Black-capped Chickadee - 28
23. Tufted Titmouse - 15
24. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (1m,1f,3?,3*)
25. Brown Creeper - 1
26. Carolina Wren - 5
27. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (f)
28. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (2?,1*)
29. American Robin - 4
30. European Starling - 97
31. Cedar Waxwing - 30
32. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)
33. American Tree Sparrow - 14
34. Song Sparrow - 7
35. Swamp Sparrow - 1
36. White-throated Sparrow - 7
37. Dark-eyed Junco - 24 (16m,7f,1*)
38. Northern Cardinal - 34 (25m,4f,5*)
39. Red-winged Blackbird - 17 (16m,1*)
40. Common Grackle - 9
41. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (m)
42. House Finch - 2 (1m,1f)
43. American Goldfinch - 8
44. House Sparrow - 17

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. 


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