JANUARY 01, 2016 - Cuyahoga Valley Monthly Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:45am-4:10pm TEMP.: 28-34-30COND.: An ongoing change of clouds/sun mix until 12:45pm; then cloudy from then on; winds W/NW changing toW/SW at 5-10mph, occasional gusts to 15mph.FT.MI.: 13.51 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
   - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (2 black morph)

   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1

   - Red Squirrel - 15
   - White-tailed Deer - 9 (8-pt buck,6-pt buck,7 does)
II. BIRDS: 43 SPECIES, 2,147 TOTAL BIRDS.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
   - Canada Goose - 169

   - American Black Duck - 20 (12m,8f)
   - Mallard - 68 (40m,28f)
   - (hybrid) American Black DuckXMallard - 1
   - Hooded Merganser - 2 (1m,1f - at Dover Pond - First January Record on Census)
   - Common Loon - 1 (fly-over headed south at Akron Composting Facility - First January Record on Census)
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 16 (one flock fly-over headed south near Brandywine Creek - First January Record on Census)
   - Great Blue Heron - 3
   - Bald Eagle - 5 (2 adult,3 immature - Tied Census High from 03/06/2015)
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature f)
   - Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 immature)
   - Ring-billed Gull - 346
   - Herring Gull - 4
   - Rock Pigeon - 21
   - Mourning Dove - 70
   - Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,2*)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 (3m,3f,2?,3*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 17 (8m,7f,1?,1*)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 12 (5m,3f,4*)
   - Northern Flicker - 1 (*)
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*)
   - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m)
   - Blue Jay - 14
   - American Crow - 601
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 30
   - Tufted Titmouse - 13
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 17 (7m,1f,2?,7*)
   - Carolina Wren - 3
   - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 (2m,2f)
   - Eastern Bluebird - 15 (8m,7f)
   - American Robin - 87
   - European Starling - 311
   - Cedar Waxwing - 44
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
   - American Tree Sparrow - 86
   - Song Sparrow - 10
   - White-throated Sparrow - 14
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 24 (14m,10f)
   - Northern Cardinal - 32 (14m,14f,4*)
   - Rusty Blackbird - 1 (m - Lock 29 parking lot in Peninsula)
   - Unidentified Blackbird - 8 (one distant flock)
   - House Finch - 1 (*)
   - American Goldfinch - 25
   - House Sparrow - 10
   - Unidentified Passerines - 18

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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