DECEMBER 26, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail from Rockside Rd. in Valley View south to Merriman Valley in Akron.(NOTE: This is not the Monthly Cuyahoga Valley Towpath Census, rather a pre-hike practice run for a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation hike/census I'll be doing in May for my niece that will be from Dover, Ohio north to Lake Erie - the entire Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath length.)TIME: 8:00am-5:15pm TEMP.: 28-50-46 COND.: Brisk early, warming throughout; sunny with blue skies & unseasonably warm.FT.MI.: 22.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
   - Mink - 1

   - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (black morph)
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 16
   - Red Squirrel - 12
   - Beaver - 1
   - Muskrat - 1
   - White-tailed Deer - 12 (buck: 3pt., 4pt. & 10pt.; doe: 9)
II. BIRDS: 41 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
   - Canada Goose - 153

   - American Black Duck - 5 (2m,2f,1?)
   - Mallard - 121 (67m,52f,2*)
   - Green-winged Teal - 1 (m - in the canal north of Boston)
   - Ring-necked Duck - 3 (2m,1f - Dover Pond)
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 16 (1 flock)
   - Great Blue Heron - 1
   - Bald Eagle - 4 (3 adult, 1 immature)
   - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (adult female)
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 10 (all adults)
   - Ring-billed Gull - 65
   - Rock Pigeon - 3
   - Mourning Dove - 11
   - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph)
   - Belted Kingfisher - 5 (3m,2*)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 18 (3m,1f,2?,12*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 13 (2m,1f,1?,9*)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 7 (*)
   - Northern Flicker - 2 (1?,1*)
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 7 (1?,6*)
   - American Kestrel - 1 (m)
   - Blue Jay - 32
   - American Crow - 326
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 49
   - Tufted Titmouse - 30
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 26 (2m,1f,1?,22*)
   - Carolina Wren - 9
   - Eastern Bluebird - 4 (2?,2*)
   - American Robin - 13
   - Northern Mockingbird - 1
   - European Starling - 74
   - American Tree Sparrow - 46
   - Song Sparrow - 11
   - Swamp Sparrow - 2
   - White-throated Sparrow - 19
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 3 (1f,2*)
   - Northern Cardinal - 39 (15m,9f,15*)
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 1 (f)
   - House Finch - 9 (1m,6f,1?,1*)
   - American Goldfinch - 26
   - House Sparrow - 68
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.


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