NOV. 06, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:45am-2:40pm TEMP.: 33-41-39 COND.: First snow of the winter overnight, about 1 inch of snow on ground at Red Lock, decreasing to just a light dusting moving south to Szalay's Farm; no snow south of Szalay's to end of hike; cloudy & calm all day; very wet from snow melting off branches; light rain from 2:15pm-2:40pm. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 7 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (2 black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 4. Red Squirrel - 10 5. White-tailed Deer - 10 (doe) II. BIRDS: 52 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 38 2. Tundra Swan - 26 (1 flock heading south above Brandywine ski area) 3. Wood Duck - 12 (4m,6f,2*) 4. American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f) 5. Mallard - 46 (23m,11f,11?,1*) 6. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 7. Double-crested Cormorant - 9 8. Great Blue Heron - 5 9. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) 10. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 11. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 12. Merlin - 1 (f) 13. Killdeer - 3 14. Ring-billed Gull - 4 15. Rock Pigeon - 51 16. Mourning Dove - 13 17. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 22 (8m,7f,2?,5*) 19. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 20. Downy Woodpecker - 19 (6m,8f,5*) 21. Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (3f,2?,4*) 22. Northern Flicker - 1 (*) 23. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1?,2*) 24. Blue Jay - 50 25. American Crow - 74 26. Black-capped Chickadee - 55 27. Tufted Titmouse - 16 28. White-breasted Nuthatch - 20 (9m,3f,1?,7*) 29. Brown Creeper - 2 30. Carolina Wren - 13 31. Winter Wren - 2 32. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7 (2f,3?,2*) 33. Eastern Bluebird - 32 (16m,14f,2*) 34. American Robin - 78 35. European Starling - 131 36. Cedar Waxwing - 37 37. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 11 38. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 39. American Tree Sparrow - 19 40. Fox Sparrow - 3 41. Song Sparrow - 18 42. Swamp Sparrow - 5 43. White-throated Sparrow - 29 44. Dark-eyed Junco - 20 (7m,9f,3?,1*) 45. Northern Cardinal - 50 (23m,13f,14*) 46. Red-winged Blackbird - 71 (42m,20f,9?) 47. Rusty Blackbird - 4 (2m,2f) 48. Common Grackle - 1 49. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 (3m,1f) 50. House Finch - 5 (1m,2f,2?) 51. American Goldfinch - 41 52. House Sparrow - 27 III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 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]