NOVEMBER 01, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:40am-3:40pm TEMP.: 53-59-55
COND.: Overcast & windy until 11:30am; wind W at 5-20mph, gusting to 40mph; cloudy & breezy after that with very brief breaks of sun.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry (Red Lock to Lock 29) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 18
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (1 black morph)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6
4. Red Squirrel - 32
5. White-tailed Deer - 3 (9-pt. buck & 2 doe)
II. BIRDS: 50 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 33
2. Wood Duck - 6 (3m,3f)
3. American Black Duck - 10 (4m,6f)
4. Mallard - 12 (7m,5f)
5. Northern Pintail - 1 (f)
6. Pied-billed Grebe - 2
7. Great Blue Heron - 5
8. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
9. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (immature f)
10. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1m,1 immature m)
11. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
12. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (1 immature)
13. Ring-billed Gull - 9
14. Rock Pigeon - 44
15. Mourning Dove - 9
16. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (calling)
17. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1*)
18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 19 (4m,3f,3?,9*)
19. Downy Woodpecker - 22 (8m,6f,2?,6*)
20. Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,2f,6*)
21. Northern Flicker - 3 (1m,1?,1*)
22. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (1?,4*)
23. Merlin - 1 (m)
24. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f)
25. Blue Jay - 47
26. American Crow - 110
27. Black-capped Chickadee - 21
28. Tufted Titmouse - 12
29. White-breasted Nuthatch - 17 (5m,2f,2?,8*)
30. Carolina Wren - 15
31. Winter Wren - 1
32. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 13 (1m,4f,6?,2*)
33. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (?)
34. Eastern Bluebird - 7 (2m,4f,1*)
35. American Robin - 72
36. European Starling - 185
37. Cedar Waxwing - 446
38. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 29
39. Eastern Towhee - 2 (*)
40. Song Sparrow - 17
41. Swamp Sparrow - 4
42. White-throated Sparrow - 25
43. Northern Cardinal - 36 (18m,9f,9*)
44. Red-winged Blackbird - 112 (34m,4f,74?)
45. Rusty Blackbird - 4 (2m,1?,1*)
46. Common Grackle - 17
47. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (m)
48. House Finch - 3 (1m,1f,1?)
49. American Goldfinch - 15
50. House Sparrow - 25
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 2
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 6 (calling)
2. Bullfrog - 1
3. Green Frog - 2
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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