NOVEMBER 05, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:30am - 4:30pm TEMP.: 30~64~63 COND.: Very brisk early, warming to sunny with blue skies and a light south breeze turning S/SW at 5-10mph from 1:20pm - 2:00pm, then turning pleasant & calm the rest of the day. A beautiful early November autumn day.TRAIL COND.: Good. RIVER COND.: Normal. FT.MI.: 14.40 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES, 37 INDIVIDUALS.
- Eastern Chipmunk - 4
- Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
- Red Squirrel - 17
- Common Muskrat - 2
- White-tailed Deer - 11 (4-pt buck,10-pt buck,8 does,1 heard running)
II. BIRDS: 46 SPECIES (tied November low from 11/05/2011), 711 INDIVIDUALS.(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
- Canada Goose - 11
- Wood Duck - 9 (5m,4f)
- American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f)
- Mallard - 15 (11m,4f)
- Ring-necked Duck - 1 (f)
- Pied-billed Grebe - 1 (immature)
- Rock Pigeon - 55
- Mourning Dove - 7
- Killdeer - 1
- Ring-billed Gull - 11
- Great Blue Heron - 5
- Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature m)
- Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
- Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (1 immature)
- Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (red morph)
- Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,1?,2*)
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 15 (5m,3f,1?,6*)
- Downy Woodpecker - 11 (4m,4f,1?,2*)
- Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (1f,1?,4*)
- Northern Flicker - 2 (1m,1*)
- Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (*)
- Blue Jay - 32
- American Crow - 168
- Black-capped Chickadee - 42
- Tufted Titmouse - 9
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 12 (2m,1f,1?,8*)
- Brown Creeper - 1
- Carolina Wren - 9
- Eastern Bluebird - 55 (30m,15f,7?,3*)
- American Robin - 4
- European Starling - 19
- Cedar Waxwing - 10
- House Sparrow - 27
- House Finch - 15 (8m,4f,2?,1*)
- American Goldfinch - 17
- Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
- American Tree Sparrow - 10
- Field Sparrow - 5
- Song Sparrow - 19
- Swamp Sparrow - 4
- White-throated Sparrow - 17
- Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (*)
- Northern Cardinal - 27 (10m,10f,7*)
- Red-winged Blackbird - 27 (15m,3f,9?)
- Rusty Blackbird - 3 (1m,2f)
- Common Grackle - 1
- Unidentified Blackbirds - 4
- Unidentified Passerines - 2
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
- Red-eared Turtle - 1
- Midland Painted Turtle - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
- Northern Spring Peeper - 3 (heard only)
- Bullfrog - 1
V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES.
- Common Carp - 1
- Creek Chub - 15
- Northern Hog Sucker - 1
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES.
- Cabbage Butterfly - 1
- Clouded Sulphur - 3
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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