JAN. 19, 2008 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park. HIKE: Boston Run Trail off Rt. 303 to Metro Parks Bike & Hike Trail north to old Akron Peninsula Rd. south to the Valley Bridle Trail south to Bolanz Rd. then take the Towpath Trail south to Merriman Rd. and home. TIME: 8:45am-4:10pm TEMP.: 27-29-20 COND.: Crisp & cold, bright & sunny, clouding up around 2:45pm; breezy. FT. MI.: 10.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Coyote - 3 (all hunting together along Salt Run) 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 4. Red Squirrel - 4 5. White-tailed Deer - 16 II. BIRDS: 35 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 293 2. Mallard - 9 (4m,5f) 3. Great Blue Heron - 3 4. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 5. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 6. Mourning Dove - 115 (114 at Szalay's corn fields at Bolanz Rd.) 7. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m) 8. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (7m,3f,1?,5*) 9. Downy Woodpecker - 18 (5m,2f,5?,6*) 10. Hairy Woodpecker - 10 (3m,1f,^*) 11. Northern Flicker - 6 (1m,4?,1*) 12. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*) 13. Blue Jay - 22 14. American Crow - 28 15. Black-capped Chickadee - 30 16. Tufted Titmouse - 9 17. White-breasted Nuthatch - 17 (6m,2f,1?,8*) 18. Brown Creeper - 2 19. Carolina Wren - 4 20. Eastern Bluebird - 12 (7m,5f) 21. American Robin - 9 22. European Starling - 82 23. Cedar Waxwing - 98 24. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m - Szalay's corn fields) 25. American Tree Sparrow - 26 26. Song Sparrow - 5 27. Swamp Sparrow - 1 28. White-throated Sparrow - 18 29. Dark-eyed Junco - 11 (9m,2f) 30. Northern Cardinal - 42 (22m,10f,10*) 31. Red-winged Blackbird - 4 (1m,3f - Szalay's corn fields) 32. Rusty Blackbird - 19 (11m,8f - Szalay's) 33. Brown-headed Cowbird - 34 (21m,13f - Szalay's) 34. American Goldfinch - 10 35. House Sparrow - 41 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - 6 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. 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]