NOVEMBER 03, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 8:00am-3:45pm TEMP.: 38-44-41 COND.: Steady light rain from 8:00am-10:50am; a couple of intermittent sprinkles from 12:20pm-1:30pm; overcast all day. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Boston), John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 4 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 7 (1 black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 4. Red Squirrel - 12 5. White-tailed Deer - 6 (8-pt. buck,4 doe,1?) II. BIRDS: 55 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 42 2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f) 3. American Black Duck - 6 (3m,3f) 4. Mallard - 32 (19m,13f) 5. Ring-necked Duck - 2 (f) 6. Pied-billed Grebe - 3 7. Great Blue Heron - 3 8. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) 9. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juvenile f) 10. Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 11. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 12. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) 13. Bonaparte's Gull - 1 14. Ring-billed Gull - 483 15. Rock Pigeon - 28 16. Mourning Dove - 11 17. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1*) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 (3m,4*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 14 (8m,4f,2*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,2f,2?,4*) 21. Northern Flicker - 3 (2m,1*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (2m,1f) 23. Eastern Phoebe - 1 24. Blue Jay - 25 25. American Crow - 63 26. Black-capped Chickadee - 21 27. Tufted Titmouse - 16 28. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 (2m,2f,1?,9*) 29. Brown Creeper - 3 30. Carolina Wren - 8 31. Winter Wren - 1 32. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7 (2f,3?,2*) 33. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (2m,1*) 34. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (1m,1f,1*) 35. American Robin - 34 36. European Starling - 7 37. Cedar Waxwing - 91 38. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 9 39. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1f) 40. American Tree Sparrow - 5 41. Field Sparrow - 1 42. Fox Sparrow - 1 43. Song Sparrow - 21 44. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 45. Swamp Sparrow - 2 46. White-throated Sparrow - 36 47. White-crowned Sparrow - 3 48. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (1m,1f,4?) 49. Northern Cardinal - 35 (13m,13f,9*) 50. Red-winged Blackbird - 75 (2m,1f,72?) 51. Rusty Blackbird - 26 52. Common Grackle - 41 53. House Finch - 1 (m) 54. American Goldfinch - 40 55. House Sparrow - 30 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Gizzard Shad - 5 (being caught by Ring-billed Gulls in Cuyahoga River at Stumpy Basin) 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]