JANUARY 01, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:30am-4:15pm TEMP.: 30-31-24 COND.: Cloudy all day with very light snow from 12:30pm-2:50pm FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry (Red Lock to Bolanz Rd.) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 7 2. Red Squirrel - 2 3. White-tailed Deer - 12 (1 spike buck,11 doe) II. BIRDS: 48 SPECIES, 1 HYBRID, 1 EXOTIC/ESCAPE. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 306 E. Greylag Goose - 1 2. Tundra Swan - 17 (one flock fly-over heading south) 3. Wood Duck - 4 (1m,3f) 4. American Black Duck - 22 (12m,9f,1?) 5. Mallard - 264 (153m,111f) H. American Black Duck/X/Mallard - 1 (m) 6. Common Merganser - 3 (2m,1f) 7. Great Blue Heron - 3 8. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) 9. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (f) 10. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 11. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 12. Merlin - 1 (m) 13. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f - the Ohio Turnpike pair) 14. Killdeer - 1 (fly-over at the Akron Compost Facility) 15. Ring-billed Gull - 736 16. Herring Gull - 6 17. Rock Pigeon - 6 18. Mourning Dove - 10 19. Barred Owl - 1 (*) 20. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1?) 21. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 22 (8m,6f,3?,5*) 22. Downy Woodpecker - 22 (4m,9f,2?,7*) 23. Hairy Woodpecker - 12 (5f,2?,5*) 24. Northern Flicker - 1 (*) 25. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1m,3*) 26. Blue Jay - 18 27. American Crow - 376 28. Black-capped Chickadee - 36 29. Tufted Titmouse - 19 30. White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 (6m,1f,5?,4*) 31. Brown Creeper - 1 32. Carolina Wren - 9 33. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1?) 34. Eastern Bluebird - 24 (16m,6f,2?) 35. American Robin - 12 36. European Starling - 224 37. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1f) 38. American Tree Sparrow - 22 39. Field Sparrow - 4 (all together in field along Towpath Trail north of Boston Cemetery) 40. Song Sparrow - 17 41. Swamp Sparrow - 4 42. White-throated Sparrow - 17 43. Dark-eyed Junco - 11 (3m,7f,1*) 44. Northern Cardinal - 50 (32m,15f,3*) 45. House Finch - 16 (5m,3f,8?) 46. American Goldfinch - 33 47. Evening Grosbeak - 1 (fly-over female north of Boston) 48. House Sparrow - 13 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]