NOVEMBER 01, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:40am-3:40pm TEMP.: 53-59-55 COND.: Overcast & windy until 11:30am; wind W at 5-20mph, gusting to 40mph; cloudy & breezy after that with very brief breaks of sun. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry (Red Lock to Lock 29) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 18 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (1 black morph) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 4. Red Squirrel - 32 5. White-tailed Deer - 3 (9-pt. buck & 2 doe) II. BIRDS: 50 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 33 2. Wood Duck - 6 (3m,3f) 3. American Black Duck - 10 (4m,6f) 4. Mallard - 12 (7m,5f) 5. Northern Pintail - 1 (f) 6. Pied-billed Grebe - 2 7. Great Blue Heron - 5 8. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) 9. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (immature f) 10. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1m,1 immature m) 11. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 12. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (1 immature) 13. Ring-billed Gull - 9 14. Rock Pigeon - 44 15. Mourning Dove - 9 16. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (calling) 17. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1*) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 19 (4m,3f,3?,9*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 22 (8m,6f,2?,6*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,2f,6*) 21. Northern Flicker - 3 (1m,1?,1*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (1?,4*) 23. Merlin - 1 (m) 24. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f) 25. Blue Jay - 47 26. American Crow - 110 27. Black-capped Chickadee - 21 28. Tufted Titmouse - 12 29. White-breasted Nuthatch - 17 (5m,2f,2?,8*) 30. Carolina Wren - 15 31. Winter Wren - 1 32. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 13 (1m,4f,6?,2*) 33. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (?) 34. Eastern Bluebird - 7 (2m,4f,1*) 35. American Robin - 72 36. European Starling - 185 37. Cedar Waxwing - 446 38. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 29 39. Eastern Towhee - 2 (*) 40. Song Sparrow - 17 41. Swamp Sparrow - 4 42. White-throated Sparrow - 25 43. Northern Cardinal - 36 (18m,9f,9*) 44. Red-winged Blackbird - 112 (34m,4f,74?) 45. Rusty Blackbird - 4 (2m,1?,1*) 46. Common Grackle - 17 47. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (m) 48. House Finch - 3 (1m,1f,1?) 49. American Goldfinch - 15 50. House Sparrow - 25 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 6 (calling) 2. Bullfrog - 1 3. Green Frog - 2 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 1 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]