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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