FEBRUARY 01, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:20am-2:00pm TEMP.: 13-21 COND.: Cold with clouds/sun mix early with steady light flurries; winds WSW at 5-15mph - gusting to 25mph; mostly cloudy, flurries ending at 9:30am; winds light & variable. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 (black phase) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 3. Red Squirrel - 8 4. White-tailed Deer - 8 II. BIRDS: 39 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 167 2. American Black Duck - 1 (female paired up with drake Mallard) 3. Mallard - 35 (18m,16f,1*) 4. Hooded Merganser - 1 (m) 5. Common Merganser - 2 (1m,1f) 6. Great Blue Heron - 4 7. Bald Eagle - 1 (immature) 8. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f) 9. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 11. Rock Pigeon - 2 12. Mourning Dove - 8 13. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m) 14. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (4m,3f,1?,2*) 15. Downy Woodpecker - 11 (3m,2f,6*) 16. Hairy Woodpecker - 13 (2m,5f,1?,5*) 17. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (m) 18. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f) 19. Blue Jay - 18 20. American Crow - 42 21. Black-capped Chickadee - 28 22. Tufted Titmouse - 27 23. White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 (6m,3f) 24. Brown Creeper - 2 25. Carolina Wren - 11 26. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 (3m,1f) 27. Eastern Bluebird - 16 (7m,7f,1?,1*) 28. American Robin - 2 29. European Starling - 33 30. Cedar Waxwing - 67 31. American Tree Sparrow - 11 32. Song Sparrow - 7 33. Swamp Sparrow - 2 34. White-throated Sparrow - 13 35. Dark-eyed Junco - 11 (6m,4f,1?) 36. Northern Cardinal - 49 (26m,18f,5*) 37. House Finch - 4 (1m,2?,1*) 38. American Goldfinch - 24 39. 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]