DECEMBER 07, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:40am-4:10pm TEMP.: 25-34-25 COND.: Cold with clouds/sun mix, turning cloudy; light flurries from 1:00pm-1:15pm; turning back to clouds/sun mix again. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black morph) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 9 3. Red Squirrel - 18 4. White-tailed Deer - 20 (9-pt. buck & 19 does) II. BIRDS: 47 SPECIES, 1 HYBRID. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 194 2. Wood Duck - 1 (m - in Cuyahoga River with injured left wing south of Boston) 3. American Black Duck - 23 (11m,12f) 4. Mallard - 28 (18m,10f) H. MallardXDomestic Duck - 2 (m - at the mouth of Brandywine Creek) 5. Hooded Merganser - 1 (f) 6. Common Merganser - 2 (f) 7. Pied-billed Grebe - 4 8. Great Blue Heron - 1 9. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) 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 - 441 14. Herring Gull - 14 15. Rock Pigeon - 35 16. Mourning Dove - 46 17. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,1?,2*) 18. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 19. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 18 (9m,5f,1?,3*) 20. Downy Woodpecker - 17 (7m,4f,2?,4*) 21. Hairy Woodpecker - 11 (2m,4f,2?,3*) 22. Northern Flicker - 3 (1m,1f,1*) 23. Pileated Woodpecker - 7 (3m,2f,2?) 24. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) 25. Blue Jay - 19 26. American Crow - 159 27. Black-capped Chickadee - 26 28. Tufted Titmouse - 15 29. White-breasted Nuthatch - 15 (6m,3?,6*) 30. Brown Creeper - 3 31. Carolina Wren - 11 32. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 (2f,3?) 33. Eastern Bluebird - 18 (8m,6f,3?,1*) 34. American Robin - 1 35. European Starling - 43 36. Cedar Waxwing - 2 37. Lapland Longspur - 2 (Szalay's corn field - new species on census, now at 157 species since 01/2010) 38. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1f) 39. American Tree Sparrow - 77 40. Song Sparrow - 17 41. Swamp Sparrow - 4 42. White-throated Sparrow - 18 43. Dark-eyed Junco - 19 (4m,12f,2?,1*) 44. Northern Cardinal - 35 (15m,16f,4*) 45. House Finch - 2 (1m,1f) 46. American Goldfinch - 30 47. House Sparrow - 12 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]