MAR. 03, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:45am-3:00pm TEMP.: 29-38 COND.: Cloudy until 9:45am, then clouds/sun mix until 1:00pm, then mostly cloudy. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 12 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 16 4. Red Squirrel - 23 5. White-tailed Deer - 20 II. BIRDS: 47 SPECIES (plus 1 feral/domestic, 1 escape/exotic & 1 hybrid) (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 231 >. Feral/Domestic "Barnyard" Goose - 1 >. Black Swan - 1 2. American Black Duck - 7 (4m,3f) 3. Mallard - 44 (26m,18f) >. American Black Duck/Mallard hybrid - 1 (m) 4. Common Goldeneye - 1 (m) 5. Hooded Merganser - 1 (m) 6. Wild Turkey - 5 (?) 7. Great Blue Heron - 2 8. Bald Eagle - 1 (immature) 9. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1m,1f) 10. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 11. Red-tailed Hawk - 7 12. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (Ohio Turnpike bridge) 13. Ring-billed Gull - 40 14. Herring Gull - 1 15. Rock Pigeon - 20 16. Mourning Dove - 17 17. Belted Kingfisher - 6 (2m,3f,1*) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 22 (6m,7f,3?,6*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 31 (10m,11f,1?,9*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 11 (2m,4f,2?,3*) 21. Pileated Woodpecker - 9 (3m,2f,1?,3*) 22. Blue Jay - 37 23. American Crow - 47 24. Horned Lark - 16 25. Black-capped Chickadee - 64 26. Tufted Titmouse - 36 27. White-breasted Nuthatch - 29 (11m,6f,4?,8*) 28. Brown Creeper - 3 29. Carolina Wren - 4 30. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6 (1m,5?) 31. Eastern Bluebird - 6 (3m,1f,2*) 32. American Robin - 61 33. European Starling - 192 34. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 35. Eastern Towhee - 1 (f) 36. American Tree Sparrow - 12 37. Song Sparrow - 21 38. White-throated Sparrow - 13 39. Dark-eyed Junco - 9 (3m,4f,2?) 40. Northern Cardinal - 64 (26m,20f,18*) 41. Red-winged Blackbird - 12 (7m,4?,1*) 42. Common Grackle - 46 43. Brown-headed Cowbird - 15 (7m,8f) 44. Purple Finch - 2 (m) 45. House Finch - 19 (5m,4f,3?,7*) 46. American Goldfinch - 12 47. House Sparrow - 27 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]