FEBRUARY 07, 2015 - Cuyahoga Valley Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:10am-3:55pm TEMP.: 25-41COND.: Cloudy early with a light south wind; turning partly sunny with light west wind;turning cloudy again & warming up; trail conditions poor at best with 6" to 8" of snow.FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Red Squirrel - 6 - White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe) BIRDS: 41 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose -79 - American Black Duck - 24 (13m,11f) - Mallard - 252 (150m,102f) - Common Merganser - 35 (24m,11f) - Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adults, 1 immature) - Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1m, 1 immature m - Tied Census High on 11 occasions) - Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 - Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (1 immature) - Virginia Rail - 1 - American Coot - 1 - Ring-billed Gull - 427 - Herring Gull - 14 - Rock Pigeon - 15 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 (gray morph - Tied Census High on 3 occasions) - Belted Kingfisher - 2 (*) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 19 (5m,6f,2?,6*) - Downy Woodpecker - 18 (4m,2f,3?,9*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (1m,2f,3*) - Northern Flicker - 1 (*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (3?,1*) - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) - Blue Jay - 30 - American Crow - 108 - Black-capped Chickadee - 27 - Tufted Titmouse - 24 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 15 (6m,1f,1?,7*) - Carolina Wren - 2 - Eastern Bluebird - 12 (7m,3f,2?) - American Robin - 12 - European Starling - 76 - Eastern Towhee - 2 (1m,1*) - American Tree Sparrow - 13 - Song Sparrow - 13 - Swamp Sparrow - 1 - White-throated Sparrow - 8 - Dark-eyed Junco - 12 (7m,5f) - Northern Cardinal - 42 (26m,13f,3*) - Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (1m,1f) - House Finch - 2 (1m,1?) - American Goldfinch - 2 - House Sparrow - 15 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]