MARCH 06, 2015 - Cuyahoga Valley Monthly Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead to Merriman Valley. TIME: 6:20am-4:15pm TEMP.: minus2-30-26.COND.: Frigid early, clear with blue skies; clouding up around 11:30am; light SW winds at 5-7mph; turning partly sunny. Trail conditions were poor at best, frozen, mostly one lane; trail after Botzum Trailhead untouched, very difficult walking.FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. - Mink - 1 - Eastern Chipmunk - 3 - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 - Red Squirrel - 10 - White-tailed Deer - 7 II. BIRDS: 51 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 134 - Tundra Swan - 3 - Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f) - American Black Duck - 23 (15m,8f) - Mallard - 211 (118m,93f) - Canvasback - 12 (10m,2f - New Species on Census - #169) - Redhead - 12 (10m,2f - New Census High - previous was 1 on 03/2014) - Greater Scaup - 2 (m - New Species on Census - #172) - Lesser Scaup - 11 (m - New Census High - previous was 1 on 03/2014) - Common Goldeneye - 35 (8m,27f - New Census High - previous was 8 on 03/2014) - Common Merganser - 57 (32m,25f) - Red-breasted Merganser - 13 (8m,5f) - Great Blue Heron - 6 - Bald Eagle - 5 (3 adult, 2 immature - New Census High - previous was 4 on 03/2014 & 01/2015) - Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 3 - American Coot - 1 - Ring-billed Gull - 377 - Herring Gull - 211 (New Census High - previous was 132 on 03/2014) - Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 (New Species on Census - #171) - Glaucous Gull - 2 (New Species on Census - #170) - Great Black-backed Gull - 3 (New Census High - previous was 2 on 03/2014) - Rock Pigeon - 33 - Mourning Dove - 11 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) - Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (2m,1f,1?,2*) - Downy Woodpecker - 8 (4f,1?,3*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 8 (1?,7*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (1m,2?,2*) - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) - Northern Shrike - 1 (Tied Census High on 02/2014) - Blue Jay - 28 - American Crow - 28 - Black-capped Chickadee - 22 - Tufted Titmouse - 15 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 (5m,4*) - Carolina Wren - 2 - Eastern Bluebird - 19 (7m,6f,6?) - American Robin - 7 - European Starling - 8 - Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) - American Tree Sparrow - 6 - Song Sparrow - 2 - White-throated Sparrow - 11 - Dark-eyed Junco - 17 (15m,2?) - Northern Cardinal - 47 (32m,11f,4*) - Red-winged Blackbird - 3 (m) - House Finch - 1 (*) - American Goldfinch - 4 - House Sparrow - 27 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]