JAN. 01, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:10am-1:55pm TEMP.: 49-54 COND.: Overcast with light, steady rain/sprinkles from 7:10am-12:00pm; cloudy, breezy and unseasonably warm all day; light, misty rain from 1:15pm-1:55pm. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Steve Borgis (7:10am-11:30am - Red Lock to Bolanz Rd.), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 3. Red Squirrel - 10 4. White-tailed Deer - 7 (doe) II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 148 2. American Black Duck - 3 (2m,1f) 3. Mallard - 88 (42m,29f,17?) 4. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 5. Great Blue Heron - 2 6. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (2 immature) 7. Ring-billed Gull - 11 8. Rock Pigeon - 10 9. Mourning Dove - 2 10. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,3*) 11. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 (4m,2f,2?,1*) 12. Downy Woodpecker - 10 (2m,3f,1?,4*) 13. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (2f,2*) 14. Northern Flicker - 3 (1?,2*) 15. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (?) 16. Blue Jay - 21 17. American Crow - 28 18. Black-capped Chickadee - 32 19. Tufted Titmouse - 13 20. White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 (3m,1f,2?,3*) 21. Brown Creeper - 1 22. Carolina Wren - 8 23. Winter Wren - 1 24. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 (?) 25. Eastern Bluebird - 13 (6m,7f) 26. American Robin - 40 27. European Starling - 18 28. Eastern Towhee - 2 (m - Bolanz Lot) 29. American Tree Sparrow - 29 30. Song Sparrow - 5 31. Swamp Sparrow - 1 32. White-throated Sparrow - 11 33. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (2m,4f) 34. Snow Bunting - 1 (fly-over at Ohio Turnpike) 35. Northern Cardinal - 42 (20m,11f,11*) 36. Red-winged Blackbird - 10 (1f,9?) 37. Common Grackle - 1 (f) 38. House Finch - 2 (1m,1*) 39. American Goldfinch - 19 40. House Sparrow - 37 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. (Next census tentatively scheduled for Saturday, February 06, 2011) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]