DECEMBER 26, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail from Rockside Rd. in Valley View south to Merriman Valley in Akron.(NOTE: This is not the Monthly Cuyahoga Valley Towpath Census, rather a pre-hike practice run for a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation hike/census I'll be doing in May for my niece that will be from Dover, Ohio north to Lake Erie - the entire Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath length.)TIME: 8:00am-5:15pm TEMP.: 28-50-46 COND.: Brisk early, warming throughout; sunny with blue skies & unseasonably warm.FT.MI.: 22.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. - Mink - 1 - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (black morph) - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 16 - Red Squirrel - 12 - Beaver - 1 - Muskrat - 1 - White-tailed Deer - 12 (buck: 3pt., 4pt. & 10pt.; doe: 9) II. BIRDS: 41 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 153 - American Black Duck - 5 (2m,2f,1?) - Mallard - 121 (67m,52f,2*) - Green-winged Teal - 1 (m - in the canal north of Boston) - Ring-necked Duck - 3 (2m,1f - Dover Pond) - Double-crested Cormorant - 16 (1 flock) - Great Blue Heron - 1 - Bald Eagle - 4 (3 adult, 1 immature) - Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (adult female) - Red-tailed Hawk - 10 (all adults) - Ring-billed Gull - 65 - Rock Pigeon - 3 - Mourning Dove - 11 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) - Belted Kingfisher - 5 (3m,2*) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 18 (3m,1f,2?,12*) - Downy Woodpecker - 13 (2m,1f,1?,9*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 7 (*) - Northern Flicker - 2 (1?,1*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 7 (1?,6*) - American Kestrel - 1 (m) - Blue Jay - 32 - American Crow - 326 - Black-capped Chickadee - 49 - Tufted Titmouse - 30 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 26 (2m,1f,1?,22*) - Carolina Wren - 9 - Eastern Bluebird - 4 (2?,2*) - American Robin - 13 - Northern Mockingbird - 1 - European Starling - 74 - American Tree Sparrow - 46 - Song Sparrow - 11 - Swamp Sparrow - 2 - White-throated Sparrow - 19 - Dark-eyed Junco - 3 (1f,2*) - Northern Cardinal - 39 (15m,9f,15*) - Red-winged Blackbird - 1 (f) - House Finch - 9 (1m,6f,1?,1*) - American Goldfinch - 26 - House Sparrow - 68 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]