MARCH 04, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Towpath Trail Monthly Census. HIKE: Merriman Rd. north to Red Lock Trailhead. TIME: 6:50am-1:40pm TEMP.: 40-46-38 COND.: Mostly cloudy early, warm; turning overcast with sprinkles at 11:30am turning to steady rain from 12:30pm-1:40pm with temperatures dropping. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 14 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 7 3. Red Squirrel - 7 4. Beaver - 1 5. White-tailed Deer - 3 II. BIRDS: 46 SPECIES, 1 EXOTIC/ESCAPE (e). (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) e. Greylag Goose - 1 1. Canada Goose - 398 2. Wood Duck - 56 (33m,23f) 3. Mallard - 82 (57m,24f,1*) 4. Ring-necked Duck - 3 (2m,1f) 5. Hooded Merganser - 13 (7m,6f) 6. Wild Turkey - 17 (4m,13f) 7. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 8. Great Blue Heron - 5 9. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 11. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) 12. American Coot - 1 (also 1 dead along Towpath Trail at Red Lock) 13. Killdeer - 9 14. Ring-billed Gull - 1 15. Herring Gull - 5 16. Rock Pigeon - 2 17. Mourning Dove - 16 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (5m,2f,1?,6*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 13 (5m,3f,1?,4*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1f,2*) 21. Northern Flicker - 2 (m) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 8 (2m,1?,5*) 23. Blue Jay - 31 24. American Crow - 26 25. Black-capped Chickadee - 47 26. Tufted Titmouse - 22 27. White-breasted Nuthatch - 11 (6m,1?,4*) 28. Brown Creeper - 1 29. Carolina Wren - 2 30. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1f) 31. Eastern Bluebird - 4 (2m,2f) 32. American Robin - 52 33. European Starling - 45 34. Eastern Towhee - 2 (1m,1*) 35. American Tree Sparrow - 7 36. Song Sparrow - 44 37. White-throated Sparrow - 16 38. Dark-eyed Junco - 9 (5m,4f) 39. Northern Cardinal - 76 (54m,18f,4*) 40. Red-winged Blackbird - 92 (52m,40?) 41. Rusty Blackbird - 139 (mostly males) 42. Common Grackle - 24 43. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (f) 44. House Finch - 5 (1m,1f,2?,1*) 45. American Goldfinch - 5 46. House Sparrow - 10 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]