FEBRUARY 04, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:15am-1:35pm TEMP.: 33-38-37 COND.: Cloudy with spitting rain early changing to wet snow/rain mix; foggy with low ceiling from 10:40am-1:35pm; wet snow/rain mix ending at 11:50am. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 (1 black phase) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 3. Red Squirrel - 11 4. White-tailed Deer - 12 II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen/sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 171 2. American Black Duck - 4 (2m,2f) 3. Mallard - 34 (16m,16f,2*) 4. Northern Pintail - 16 (10m,6f - 1 flock of 15 birds headed north followed shortly after by a single drake headed north) 5. Great Blue Heron - 2 6. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 7. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (* - calling from somewhere underneath the Ohio Turnpike bridge) 8. Ring-billed Gull - 67 9. Herring Gull - 8 10. Rock Pigeon - 5 11. Mourning Dove - 2 12. Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 (*) 13. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2m,1f) 14. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (1m,4f,1?,4*) 15. Downy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,3*) 16. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (2?,3*) 17. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) 18. Blue Jay - 34 19. American Crow - 78 20. Black-capped Chickadee - 22 21. Tufted Titmouse - 21 22. White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 (4m,1f,5?,6*) 23. Carolina Wren - 5 24. Eastern Bluebird - 5 (1m,3f,1*) 25. American Robin - 2 26. European Starling - 55 27. Cedar Waxwing - 1 28. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 29. American Tree Sparrow - 7 30. Song Sparrow - 7 31. Swamp Sparrow - 1 32. White-throated Sparrow - 17 33. Dark-eyed Junco - 7 (1m,3f,3?) 34. Northern Cardinal - 62 (37m,17f,8*) 35. Red-winged Blackbird - 42 36. Common Grackle - 2 37. House Finch - 4 (3m,1f) 38. Pine Siskin - 1 39. American Goldfinch - 4 40. House Sparrow - 14 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]