NOV. 25, 2007 - Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation Towpath Trail - Leonard Krieger Nature Center north to Harvard Ave. (hike includes all waysides on trek north & south) TIME: 7:55am-10:10am north/ 10:10am-11:30am south TEMP.: 23-38 COND.: Cold/brisk early, warming throughout; sunny with blue skies. FT. MI.: 4.80 (including waysides up & back) OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 3. Eastern Cottontail - 1 II. BIRDS: 38 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 6 2. American Black Duck - 4 (2m,2f) 3. Mallard - 17 (12m,5f) 4. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 5. Great Blue Heron - 3 6. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (3 pairs) 7. American Kestrel - 2 (1m,1f - together) 8. Bonaparte's Gull - 21 (1 single bird w/flock of RBG; and 1 flock of 20) 9. Ring-billed Gull - 406 10. Herring Gull - 3 11. Rock Pigeon - 11 12. Mourning Dove - 20 13. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1?) 14. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 (m) 15. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (2m,2f,2?,3*) 16. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (f) 17. Blue Jay - 5 18. American Crow - 2 19. Black-capped Chickadee - 5 20. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (1m,2?,2*) 21. Carolina Wren - 2 22. American Robin - 4 23. Northern Mockingbird - 3 24. European Starling - 4 25. Cedar Waxwing - 41 (1 flock of 34 & 1 flock of 7 w/f purple finch) 26. American Tree Sparrow - 7 27. Fox Sparrow - 1 28. Song Sparrow - 9 29. Swamp Sparrow - 1 30. White-throated Sparrow - 26 31. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 (first winter bird w/ 2 song & 6 tree sparrows) 32. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (?) 33. Northern Cardinal - 18 (6m,5f,7*) 34. Red-winged Blackbird - 9 (7m,1f,1*) 35. Purple Finch - 1 (f - w/ 7 waxwings) 36. House Finch - 4 (1?,3*) 37. American Goldfinch - 11 38. House Sparrow - 11 Won't be long and this 110-mile masterpiece will be complete. And what a trail we'll have and what a list I'll have. Support your Towpath! Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. --------------------------------- Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]