DECEMBER 05, 2015 - Cuyahoga Valley Monthly Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:10am-3:35pm TEMP.: 32-42COND.: Chilly & somewhat foggy early, low ceiling & calm with increasing fog; fog lifting at 11:00am & turning partly sunny and then sunny from 12:40pm until end of hike.FT.MI.: 13.51 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.   
   - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (2 black morph)   

   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
   - Red Squirrel - 23
   - White-tailed Deer - 3 (bucks: 8-pt, 6-pt, 3-pt)
II. BIRDS: 39 SPECIES, 1 HYBRID. (Tied for Census Low on 01/01/2010 & 02/01/2013)(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen)   
   - Canada Goose - 143   

   - Wood Duck - 22 (14m,8f)
   - American Black Duck - 25 (15m,10f)
   - Mallard - 113 (63m,49f,1*)
   - American Black DuckXMallard - 1
   - Great Blue Heron - 3
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f)
   - Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 immature)
   - American Coot - 1
   - Ring-billed Gull - 1
   - Rock Pigeon - 22
   - Mourning Dove - 161 (New Census High - previous was 46 on 12/07/2013)
   - Eastern Screech Owl - 3 (1 gray morph,2* - New Census High - previous was 2 on five different occasions)
   - Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,2f,1*)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (2m,4f,4?,4*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 18 (5m,4f,2?,7*)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 12 (4f,3?,5*)
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1?,3*)
   - Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f)
   - Blue Jay - 37
   - American Crow - 55
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 33
   - Tufted Titmouse - 15
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 23 (7m,3f,4?,9*)
   - Carolina Wren - 5
   - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (m)
   - Eastern Bluebird - 25 (15m,7f,2?,1*)
   - American Robin - 27
   - European Starling - 55
   - Cedar Waxwing - 15
   - American Tree Sparrow - 32
   - Song Sparrow - 15
   - Swamp Sparrow - 1
   - White-throated Sparrow - 21
   - Northern Cardinal - 44 (21m,14f,9*)
   - Common Grackle - 15 (First December Record on Census)
   - House Finch - 8 (1m,1f,4?,2*)
   - American Goldfinch - 27
   - House Sparrow - 63
III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.   
   - Creek Chub - 200+

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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