MARCH 01, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:10am-2:20pm TEMP.: 29-33-27 COND.: Cloudy with steady, light snow from 7:40am until end of hike. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), John Henry, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 4 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 4. Red Squirrel - 11 5. White-tailed Deer - 12 (7-pt. buck, 11 doe) II. BIRDS: 44 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 94 2. American Black Duck - 3 (1m,2f) 3. Mallard - 37 (23m,14f) 4. Northern Pintail - 5 (3m,2f) 5. Ring-necked Duck - 1 (m) 6. Common Merganser - 1 (m) 7. Great Blue Heron - 13 8. Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature) 9. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 11. Ring-billed Gull - 4 12. Rock Pigeon - 1 13. Mourning Dove - 14 14. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (red morph) 15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (2m,2f,1?,5*) 16. Downy Woodpecker - 11 (3m,2f,1?,5*) 17. Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (2?,4*) 18. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1*) 19. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f) 20. Blue Jay - 20 21. American Crow - 123 22. Black-capped Chickadee - 28 23. Tufted Titmouse - 15 24. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (1m,1f,3?,3*) 25. Brown Creeper - 1 26. Carolina Wren - 5 27. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (f) 28. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (2?,1*) 29. American Robin - 4 30. European Starling - 97 31. Cedar Waxwing - 30 32. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 33. American Tree Sparrow - 14 34. Song Sparrow - 7 35. Swamp Sparrow - 1 36. White-throated Sparrow - 7 37. Dark-eyed Junco - 24 (16m,7f,1*) 38. Northern Cardinal - 34 (25m,4f,5*) 39. Red-winged Blackbird - 17 (16m,1*) 40. Common Grackle - 9 41. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (m) 42. House Finch - 2 (1m,1f) 43. American Goldfinch - 8 44. House Sparrow - 17 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]