MARCH 07, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:45am-3:15pm TEMP.: 20-55-53 COND.: Very cold early, warming up & turning warm and sunny with blue skies. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Mink - 1 (swimming in Furnace Run near Szalay's farm) 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 7 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (2 black morph) 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 10 5. Red Squirrel - 43 (new census high) 6. Muskrat - 1 7. White-tailed Deer - 14 II. BIRDS: 50 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 368 2. Wood Duck - 5 (4m,1f) 3. American Black Duck - 28 (16m,11f,1? - new census high) 4. Mallard - 148 (90m,58f) 5. Redhead - 1 (m) (new species on census - Bird #162) 6. Lesser Scaup - 1 (m) (new species on census - Bird #163) 7. Common Goldeneye - 8 (2m,6f - new census high) 8. Hooded Merganser - 6 (1m,5f) 9. Common Merganser - 81 (22m,59f - new census high) 10. Red-breasted Merganser - 15 (3m,12f - new species on census - Bird #161) 11. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 12. Great Blue Heron - 16 13. Turkey Vulture - 2 14. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature - new census high) 15. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 16. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (2 immature) 17. Ring-billed Gull - 492 18. Herring Gull - 132 (new census high) 19. Great Black-backed Gull - 2 (1 adult,1 second winter - new species on census - Bird #160) 20. Rock Pigeon - 15 21. Mourning Dove - 16 22. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1?,1*) 23. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (6m,1f,1?,6*) 24. Downy Woodpecker - 11 (2m,4f,5*) 25. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (1m,1f,3*) 26. Northern Flicker - 1 (*) 27. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1?,2*) 28. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f) 29. Blue Jay - 29 30. American Crow - 38 31. Horned Lark - 1 32. Black-capped Chickadee - 23 33. Tufted Titmouse - 19 34. White-breasted Nuthatch - 17 (5m,3f,2?,7*) 35. Carolina Wren - 6 36. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (1m,2f) 37. American Robin - 7 38. European Starling - 85 39. Cedar Waxwing - 2 40. American Tree Sparrow - 9 41. Song Sparrow - 15 42. White-throated Sparrow - 19 43. Dark-eyed Junco - 16 (6m,9f,1*) 44. Northern Cardinal - 55 (39m,10f,6*) 45. Red-winged Blackbird - 107 46. Common Grackle - 3 47. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (m) 48. House Finch - 5 (2m,1f,1?,1*) 49. American Goldfinch - 2 50. House Sparrow - 19 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]