OCTOBER 05, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:20am-3:30pm TEMP.: 60-66 COND.: Cloudy & pleasant; occasional sprinkles from 12:50pm-2:30pm. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 72 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (1 black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 4. Red Squirrel - 26 5. White-tailed Deer - 5 (6-pt. buck,2 does,2 yearlings) II. BIRDS: 53 SPECIES, 1 Exotic/Escape. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 25 E. Greylag/Barnyard Goose - 1 2. Wood Duck - 3 (2m,1f) 3. American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f) 4. Pied-billed Grebe - 3 5. Great Blue Heron - 8 6. Turkey Vulture - 7 7. Merlin - 1 (?) 8. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) 9. Killdeer - 2 10. Rock Pigeon - 5 11. Mourning Dove - 22 12. Chimney Swift - 106 13. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2m,1?) 14. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 20 (2m,3f,10?,5*) 16. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (4f,3?,2*) 17. Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,3f,2?,3*) 18. Northern Flicker - 4 (1m,1?,2*) 19. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (1m,1f,1?,2*) 20. Eastern Phoebe - 2 21. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 22. Blue Jay - 42 23. American Crow - 24 24. Black-capped Chickadee - 24 25. Tufted Titmouse - 23 26. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (3m,1f,6*) 27. Carolina Wren - 10 28. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1f) 29. Eastern Bluebird - 12 (3m,2f,6?,1*) 30. American Robin - 48 31. Gray Catbird - 2 32. European Starling - 356 33. Cedar Waxwing - 130 34. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 35. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (m) 36. Hooded Warbler - 2 (1m,1*) 37. Blackpoll Warbler - 3 38. Palm Warbler - 1 39. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 54 40. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 41. Chipping Sparrow - 3 42. Field Sparrow - 1 43. Song Sparrow - 39 44. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 45. Swamp Sparrow - 14 46. White-throated Sparrow - 21 47. Northern Cardinal -47 (15m,14f,2 juv. f,15*,1 juv. *) 48. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (m) 49. Red-winged Blackbird - 90 (24m,3f,63?) 50. Purple Finch - 1 (f) 51. House Finch - 6 (1f,5?) 52. American Goldfinch - 23 53. House Sparrow - 8 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 1 2. Northern Brown Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 11 (*) V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Bluegill - 3 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]