JANUARY 07, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:55am-2:50pm TEMP.: 27-48-46 COND.: Crisp early, mostly cloudy; warming throughout & mostly sunny until 12:30pm; sunny, no clouds from 12:30pm-2:50pm; light west winds. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus, Michelle Zager (from Botzum Trailhead to Merriman Rd.) I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 14 (2 chasing each other to top of tree & both fell 30 ft. into Cuyahoga River. Both made it back to dry land) 3. Red Squirrel - 20 4. Muskrat - 1 5. White-tailed Deer - 17 (8-pt. buck, 16 doe) II. BIRDS: 42 SPECIES, plus 1 ESCAPE/EXOTIC. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 408 E. Greylag/Barnyard/Domestic/Feral Goose - 1 2. American Black Duck - 7 (4m,3f) 3. Mallard - 47 (29m,18f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 1 5. Wild Turkey - 3 (m) 6. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 (1 immature) 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (1 immature) 9. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f - the Ohio Turnpike bridge pair) 10. Ring-billed Gull - 98 11. Herring Gull - 15 12. Rock Pigeon - 33 13. Mourning Dove - 6 14. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m) 15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (2m,1?,3*) 16. Downy Woodpecker - 8 (2m,2f,1?,3*) 17. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (2f,3*) 18. Northern Flicker - 1 (*) 19. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (2m,2?) 20. Blue Jay - 22 21. American Crow - 34 22. Black-capped Chickadee - 43 23. Tufted Titmouse - 21 24. White-breasted Nuthatch - 12 (3m,1f,8*) 25. Brown Creeper - 2 26. Carolina Wren - 2 27. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (?) 28. Eastern Bluebird - 5 (1m,2f,2*) 29. European Starling - 405 30. American Tree Sparrow - 7 31. Song Sparrow - 7 32. Swamp Sparrow - 3 33. White-throated Sparrow - 2 34. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (*) 35. Northern Cardinal - 52 (24m,20f,8*) 36. Red-winged Blackbird - 1 (m - Szalay's corn field) 37. Common Grackle - 76 (all in 1 flock over Stanford Swamp) 38. Purple Finch - 1 (m) 39. House Finch - 20 (1m,2f,17?) 40. Pine Siskin - 1 (near R.R. trestle north of Peninsula) 41. American Goldfinch - 19 42. House Sparrow - 7 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]