NOVEMBER 05, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:45am-2:50pm TEMP.: 23-56-55 COND.: Cold & frosty early; sunny & pleasant. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 7 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 7 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 8 4. Red Squirrel - 22 5. White-tailed Deer - 10 (4 bucks - three 8-pt.,one 3-pt & 6 does) II. BIRDS: 45 SPECIES, 1 Escape/Domestic. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 84 E. Greylag Goose - 1 2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f) 3. Mallard - 17 (9m,8f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 3 5. Turkey Vulture - 2 6. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature male) 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 immature) 9. Ring-billed Gull - 1 10. Herring Gull - 7 11. Rock Pigeon - 57 12. Mourning Dove - 3 13. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 14. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m) 15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 (2f,1?,5*) 16. Downy Woodpecker - 12 (2m,3f,1?,6*) 17. Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (1m,3f,1?,1*) 18. Northern Flicker - 2 (*) 19. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) 20. Blue Jay - 31 21. American Crow - 74 22. Black-capped Chickadee - 32 23. Tufted Titmouse - 13 24. White-breasted Nuthatch - 13 (3m,1f,3?,6*) 25. Brown Creeper - 1 26. Carolina Wren - 2 27. Winter Wren - 2 28. Eastern Bluebird - 17 (9m,7f,1*) 29. American Robin - 16 30. European Starling - 41 31. Cedar Waxwing - 14 32. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 33. American Tree Sparrow - 5 34. Song Sparrow - 6 35. Swamp Sparrow - 2 36. White-throated Sparrow - 10 37. Dark-eyed Junco - 15 (8m,4f,3?) 38. Northern Cardinal - 39 (11m,13f,15*) 39. Red-winged Blackbird - 78 40. Rusty Blackbird - 8 41. Common Grackle - 33 42. Purple Finch - 1 (*) 43. House Finch - 4 (3?,1*) 44. American Goldfinch - 15 45. House Sparrow - 14 III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 2 (tadpoles) IV. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - about 60 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]