DECEMBER 01, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TEMP.: 30-57 COND.: Crisp early, warming up, clouds/sun mix all day. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Shorttail Shrew - 2 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 1 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (1 black phase) 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 5. Red Squirrel - 23 6. Beaver - 1 7. White-tailed Deer - 2 (doe - both with injured front legs) II. BIRDS: 42 SPECIES, 1 ESCAPE/EXOTIC. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 73 E. Greylag Goose - 1 2. American Black Duck - 6 (2m,4f) 3. Mallard - 89 (28m,19f,40?,2*) 4. Hooded Merganser - 8 (2m,1f,5?) 5. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 6. Great Blue Heron - 4 7. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1 adult male,1 juvenile female) 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 9. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f) 10. American Coot - 1 11. Ring-billed Gull - 170 12. Herring Gull - 13 13. Rock Pigeon - 5 14. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray phase) 15. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (3m,1*) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 15 (5m,4f,2?,4*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 14 (2m,6f,3?,3*) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 8 (1m,2f,1?,4*) 19. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (?) 20. Blue Jay - 23 21. American Crow - 41 22. Black-capped Chickadee - 21 23. Tufted Titmouse - 12 24. White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 (8m,1?,7*) 25. Brown Creeper - 2 26. Carolina Wren - 12 27. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1f,1*) 28. Eastern Bluebird - 9 (2m,6f,1?) 29. American Robin - 2 30. European Starling - 106 31. Cedar Waxwing - 118 32. Eastern Towhee - 3 (1m,2f) 33. American Tree Sparrow - 36 34. Song Sparrow - 8 35. Swamp Sparrow - 3 36. White-throated Sparrow - 12 37. Dark-eyed Junco - 11 (2m,4f,2?,3*) 38. Northern Cardinal - 37 (16m,15f,6*) 39. Red-winged Blackbird - 8 (m) 40. House Finch - 4 (2?,2*) 41. American Goldfinch - 32 42. House Sparrow - 58 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 IV. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - 6 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]