DECEMBER 06, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley Monthly Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 8:30am-4:25pm TEMP.: 38-40-39COND.: Overcast with rain from 8:30am-9:15am; cloudy from 9:15am-3:15pm, turning partly cloudy from 3:15pm-3:50pm; clouding up again & turning breezy. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 (3 black morph) - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 - Red Squirrel - 12 - Muskrat - 2 - White-tailed Deer - 3 (1 doe with 2 yearlings) II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 335 - Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f) - American Black Duck - 13 (7m,6f) - Mallard - 22 (14m,8f) - Great Blue Heron - 3 - Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult,1 immature) - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) - Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (1 immature) - Killdeer - 4 - Ring-billed Gull - 6 - Herring Gull - 1 - Rock Pigeon - 61 (New Census High - previous was 57 on 11/05/2011) - Mourning Dove - 12 - Belted Kingfisher - 2 (m) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 15 (3m,6f,2?,4*) - Downy Woodpecker - 10 (4m,3f,1?,2*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (2m,3?,4*) - Northern Flicker - 2 (*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) - Blue Jay - 30 - American Crow - 958 (New Census High - previous was 376 on 01/01/2013) - Black-capped Chickadee - 36 - Tufted Titmouse - 21 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 20 (6m,3f,2?,9*) - Brown Creeper - 4 (New Census High - previous was on 6 different occasions) - Carolina Wren - 5 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1?,1*) - Eastern Bluebird - 8 (4m,4f) - American Robin - 5 - Northern Mockingbird - 1 (Tied Census High - also on 10/01/2010 & 11/01/2014) - European Starling - 30 - Cedar Waxwing - 14 - American Tree Sparrow - 13 - Song Sparrow - 5 - Swamp Sparrow - 5 - White-throated Sparrow - 11 - Dark-eyed Junco - 3 (1m,2f) - Northern Cardinal - 57 (25m,23f,2?,7*) - American Goldfinch - 10 - House Sparrow - 41 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. - Creek Chub - 1 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]