MARCH 02, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County - Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:55am-1:50pm TEMP.: 30-56 COND.: Cloudy & calm; no snow cover. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 7 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (1 black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 10 4. Red Squirrel - 11 5. Meadow Vole - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 11 II. BIRDS: 47 SPECIES, plus 1 EXOTIC. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 119 E. Greylag Goose - 1 2. Wood Duck - 6 (4m,2f) 3. Mallard - 19 (10m,8f,1*) 4. Ring-necked Duck - 4 (3m,1f) 5. Great Blue Heron - 42 6. Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult,1 immature) 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 9. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f - Ohio Turnpike bridge pair) 10. American Coot - 1 11. Killdeer - 2 12. Ring-billed Gull - 2 13. Herring Gull - 1 14. Rock Pigeon - 21 15. Mourning Dove - 32 16. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2?,1*) 17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (Stanford Swamp) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 21 (4m,3f,1?,13*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 20 (7m,11f,1?,1*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 8 (2f,3?,3*) 21. Northern Flicker - 4 (2m,2*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1m,2?,1*) 23. Blue Jay - 34 24. American Crow - 58 25. Black-capped Chickadee - 38 26. Tufted Titmouse - 30 27. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 (8m,2f,1?,3*) 28. Brown Creeper - 1 29. Carolina Wren - 1 30. Eastern Bluebird - 8 (3m,1f,4*) 31. American Robin - 25 32. European Starling - 41 33. Cedar Waxwing - 19 34. Eastern Towhee - 2 (f) 35. American Tree Sparrow - 9 36. Song Sparrow - 47 37. Swamp Sparrow - 1 38. White-throated Sparrow - 14 39. Dark-eyed Junco - 25 (7m,3f,15?) 40. Northern Cardinal - 84 (53m,26f,5*) 41. Red-winged Blackbird - 96 (65m,31?) 42. Rusty Blackbird - 2 (m) 43. Common Grackle - 91 44. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (m) 45. House Finch - 7 (2m,1f,4*) 46. American Goldfinch - 18 47. House Sparrow - 22 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]