FEBRUARY 01, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:25am-2:50pm TEMP.: 29-47-39 COND.: Wet snow from 7:25am-8:20am switching over to freezing rain until 9:10am, then switching to light rain from 9:10am-11:55am; no rain from 11:55am-1:10pm; light sprinkles from 1:10pm until 2:50pm; overcast all day. TRAIL COND.: Snow-covered, difficult walking. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (1 black morph) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 9 3. Red Squirrel - 21 4. White-tailed Deer - 7 II. BIRDS: 45 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 639 2. American Black Duck - 10 (4m,5f,1?) 3. Mallard - 264 (161m,103f) 4. Common Merganser - 5 (m) 5. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 6. Great Blue Heron - 7 7. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) 8. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1f,1 immature f) 9. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (immature) 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 9 (3 immature) 11. Ring-billed Gull - 227 12. Herring Gull - 23 13. Iceland Gull - 1 (New Species on Towpath Census - #158 since 01/2010) 14. Rock Pigeon - 24 15. Mourning Dove - 2 16. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (calling) 17. Belted Kingfisher - 5 (2m,1?,2*) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 20 (7m,4f,3?,6*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 21 (5m,3f,5?,8*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 7 (1m,3f,3*) 21. Northern Flicker - 2 (*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (1?,4*) 23. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f) 24. Northern Shrike - 1 (New Species on Towpath Census - #159 since 01/2010) 25. Blue Jay - 30 26. American Crow - 31 27. Black-capped Chickadee - 36 28. Tufted Titmouse - 17 29. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 (6m,1?,7*) 30. Brown Creeper - 1 31. Carolina Wren - 9 32. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 (1m,4f) 33. Eastern Bluebird - 6 (4m,2f) 34. American Robin - 106 35. European Starling - 136 36. Eastern Towhee - 6 (5m,1f) 37. American Tree Sparrow - 17 38. Song Sparrow - 12 39. Swamp Sparrow - 1 40. White-throated Sparrow - 36 41. Dark-eyed Junco - 26 (8m,10f,7?,1*) 42. Northern Cardinal - 67 (28m,30f,9*) 43. Red-winged Blackbird - 1 (f) 44. American Goldfinch - 4 45. 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]