DECEMBER 04, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:55am-1:20pm TEMP.: 19-34 COND.: Chilly early, mostly cloudy all day. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Coyote - 1 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 4. Red Squirrel - 12 5. White-tailed Deer - 6 (doe) II. BIRDS: 45 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 39 >. Feral/Domestic/Barnyard "Greylag Goose" - 1 2. Mallard - 51 (32m,19f) 3. Great Blue Heron - 4 4. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. m) 5. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 6. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 7. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - under Turnpike bridge) 8. Herring Gull - 4 9. Rock Pigeon - 34 10. Mourning Dove - 45 11. Belted Kingfisher - 5 (m) 12. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 18 (5m,3f,4?,6*) 13. Downy Woodpecker - 22 (8m,7f,7*) 14. Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (2m,2f,1?,4*) 15. Northern Flicker - 3 (1m,1f,1*) 16. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*) 17. Blue Jay - 43 18. American Crow - 54 19. Black-capped Chickadee - 58 20. Tufted Titmouse - 25 21. White-breasted Nuthatch - 25 (9m,2f,2?,12*) 22. Brown Creeper - 3 23. Carolina Wren - 9 24. Winter Wren - 2 25. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7 (2f,3?,2*) 26. Eastern Bluebird - 22 (9m,9f,4?) 27. American Robin - 47 28. European Starling - 94 29. American Pipit - 12 (Szalay's cornfield west of Bolanz Rd. parking lot) 30. Cedar Waxwing - 239 (all in one stretch just south of compost facility) 31. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 32. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m) 33. American Tree Sparrow - 57 34. Fox Sparrow - 1 35. Song Sparrow - 10 36. Swamp Sparrow - 5 37. White-throated Sparrow - 33 38. Dark-eyed Junco - 8 (4m,1f,1?,2*) 39. Northern Cardinal - 75 (35m,21f,19*) 40. Red-winged Blackbird - 106 (12m,18f,76?) 41. Rusty Blackbird - 201 (mix of males & females at Szalay's cornfield) 42. Brown-headed Cowbird - 26 (16m,10f - mixed in with the Rusty's at Szalay's) 43. House Finch - 4 (1m,2f,1*) 44. American Goldfinch - 49 45. House Sparrow - 18 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]