JAN. 01, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park - Monthly Towpath Trail Report. HIKE: Red Lock south to Botzum Trailhead. TIME: 7:15am-1:30pm TEMP.: 33-30-35-27 COND.: Wind NW at 5-15mph until 8:15am; cloudy with light snow all day, temp dropping. FT.MI.: 11.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (1 black phase) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 3. Red Squirrel - 10 4. White-tailed Deer -15 (doe) II. BIRDS: 39 SPECIES (plus 1 feral/domestic,1 exotic/escape,1 hybrid) (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 196 >. Feral/domestic "Barnyard" Goose - 1 >. Black Swan - 1 2. American Black Duck - 10 (5m,5f) 3. Mallard - 36 (20m,13f,3*) >. American Black Duck/Mallard hybrid - 1 (m) 4. Great Blue Heron - 4 5. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 6. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 immature) 7. Killdeer - 1 (flyover heading south at Bath Rd. & Rivervirew Rd. intersection) 8. Ring-billed Gull - 30 9. Mourning Dove - 20 10. Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 (1 gray phase,1* - called in by voice at old Jaite Paper Mill) 11. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,2*) 12. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 17 (9m,2f,6*) 13. Downy Woodpecker - 26 (9m,8f,1?,8*) 14. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1f,1?,1*) 15. Northern Flicker - 5 (1f,1?,3*) 16. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (3?,1*) 17. Blue Jay - 23 18. American Crow - 59 19. Black-capped Chickadee - 39 20. Tufted Titmouse - 20 21. White-breasted Nuthatch - 17 (10m,2f,1?,4*) 22. Carolina Wren - 4 23. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 (1m,1f,3?) 24. Eastern Bluebird - 19 (6m,8f,5?) 25. American Robin - 181 26. European Starling - 237 27. Cedar Waxwing - 12 28. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 (all together north of Lock 29) 29. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m - at Bolanz Lot) 30. American Tree Sparrow - 18 31. Song Sparrow - 10 32. Swamp Sparrow - 1 (marsh between Stanford Rd. and Towpath Trail) 33. White-throated Sparrow - 5 34. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (3m,2f,1*) 35. Northern Cardinal - 61 (28m,26f,7*) 36. Red-winged Blackbird - 22 (16m,6f - coming off roost from phragmites between Stanford Rd. and Towpath Trail) 37. House Finch - 2 (1f,1*) 38. American Goldfinch - 34 39. House Sparrow - 4 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]