NOV. 07, 2009 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park - Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail from Rockside Rd. (Lock 39) to Peninsula (Lock 29). TIME: 6:30am-1:30pm TEMP.: 40-67 COND.: Cool early, clear; clouding up around 8:30am until 9:15am; clearing and warming after 9:15am; warm & sunny with blue skies. FT.MI.: 13.1 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 5 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 8 3. Red Squirrel - 1 4. Muskrat - 3 5. White-tailed Deer - 5 (3 bucks: 8-pt,6-pt,2-pt),1 doe,1 yearling) II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 30 2. Mallard - 52 (33m,18f,1*) 3. Great Blue Heron - 3 4. Turkey Vulture - 2 5. Bald Eagle - 1 (juv. just starting to get white head) 6. Cooper's Hawk - 3 (2 adult m,1 juv. m) 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 9. Ring-billed Gull - 15 10. Rock Pigeon - 8 11. Mourning Dove - 7 12. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2m,1*) 13. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 18 (5m,6f,7*) 14. Downy Woodpecker - 25 (10m,8f,2?,5*) 15. Hairy Woodpecker - 12 (2m,4f,1?,5*) 16. Northern Flicker - 1 (m) 17. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) 18. Blue Jay - 40 19. American Crow - 27 20. Horned Lark - 1 (flyover) 21. Black-capped Chickadee - 56 22. Tufted Titmouse - 25 23. White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 (6m,5f,1?,4*) 24. Brown Creeper - 3 25. Carolina Wren - 4 26. Eastern Bluebird - 9 (1m,2f,5?,1*) 27. American Robin - 16 28. European Starling - 32 29. Cedar Waxwing - 158 30. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 31. American Tree Sparrow - 10 32. Fox Sparrow - 9 33. Song Sparrow - 19 34. White-throated Sparrow - 8 35. Northern Cardinal - 25 (7m,4f,14*) 36. Red-winged Blackbird - 9 (3m,6?) 37. Common Grackle - 3 38. House Finch - 13 (1m,4?,8*) 39. American Goldfinch - 31 40. House Sparrow - 63 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 17 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (*) V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - hundreds VI. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Orange Sulphur - 3 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]