JANUARY 01, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:40am-2:55pm TEMP.: 20-29-27 COND.: Cloudy with steady flurries until 10:30am. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 (black morph) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 3. Red Squirrel - 15 BIRDS: 46 SPECIES,1 HYBRID. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 336 2. American Black Duck - 7 (5m,2f) 3. Mallard - 50 (28m,21f,1*) H. American Black DuckXMallard - 1 (m) 4. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 5. Great Blue Heron - 4 6. Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adults,1 immature) 7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f) 8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 10. Ring-billed Gull - 4 11. Herring Gull - 8 (2 immature) 12. Rock Pigeon - 49 13. Mourning Dove - 38 14. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,3*) 15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 22 (5m,4f,1?,12*) 16. Downy Woodpecker - 27 (4m,9f,1?,13*) 17. Hairy Woodpecker - 16 (1m,3f,1?,11*) 18. Northern Flicker - 3 (1?,2*) 19. Pileated Woodpecker - 9 (1m,2?,6*) 20. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f) 21. Blue Jay - 26 22. American Crow - 119 23. Black-capped Chickadee - 40 24. Tufted Titmouse - 23 25. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 (4m,1f,2?,7*) 26. Brown Creeper - 2 27. Carolina Wren - 15 28. Winter Wren - 1 29. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9 (2m,1f,2?,4*) 30. Eastern Bluebird - 38 (19m,12f,7?) 31. American Robin - 49 32. European Starling - 127 33. Cedar Waxwing - 156 34. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 35. American Tree Sparrow - 118 36. Fox Sparrow - 1 37. Song Sparrow - 23 38. Swamp Sparrow - 2 39. White-throated Sparrow - 31 40. White-crowned Sparrow - 2 41. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (4m,2*) 42. Northern Cardinal - 95 (53m,32f,10*) 43. Rusty Blackbird - 6 (2m,4f) 44. House Finch - 2 (1?,1*) 45. American Goldfinch - 44 46. House Sparrow - 23 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]