DECEMBER 03, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:10am-2:40pm TEMP.: 21-54-52 COND.: Frosty early, then sunny, pleasant, few clouds. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (1 black phase) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 7 3. Red Squirrel - 20 4. White-tailed Deer - 32 (4 bucks: three 8-pt., one 4-pt., 28 doe) II. BIRDS: 41 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 52 2. American Black Duck - 1 (f) 3. Mallard - 32 (18m,14f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 4 5. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1 imm. m,1 imm. f) 6. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 imm.) 7. Killdeer - 14 (Szalay's NE corn field) 8. Ring-billed Gull - 4 9. Herring Gull - 1 10. Rock Pigeon - 37 11. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (calling south of old Jaite Paper Mill property) 12. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1f) 13. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 (4m,3f,1?,3*) 14. Downy Woodpecker - 18 (8m,3f,2?,5*) 15. Hairy Woodpecker - 8 (2m,3f,3*) 16. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (2?,2*) 17. Blue Jay - 25 18. American Crow - 62 19. Black-capped Chickadee - 33 20. Tufted Titmouse - 18 21. White-breasted Nuthatch - 15 (7m,2f,6*) 22. Brown Creeper - 1 23. Carolina Wren - 9 24. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (?) 25. Eastern Bluebird - 7 (3m,4f) 26. European Starling - 124 27. Cedar Waxwing - 10 28. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 29. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 30. American Tree Sparrow - 35 31. Song Sparrow - 16 32. Swamp Sparrow - 1 33. White-throated Sparrow - 18 34. Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (1m,1f) 35. Northern Cardinal - 54 (31m,17f,6*) 36. Red-winged Blackbird - 7 (5m,2f) 37. Rusty Blackbird - 29 (Szalay's SW corn field) 38. House Finch - 3 (1m,2f) 39. Pine Siskin - 1 (along Towpath between I-271 & Ohio Turnpike bridges) 40. American Goldfinch - 21 41. House Sparrow - 72 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]