DECEMBER 05, 2015 - Cuyahoga Valley Monthly Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:10am-3:35pm TEMP.: 32-42COND.: Chilly & somewhat foggy early, low ceiling & calm with increasing fog; fog lifting at 11:00am & turning partly sunny and then sunny from 12:40pm until end of hike.FT.MI.: 13.51 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (2 black morph) - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 - Red Squirrel - 23 - White-tailed Deer - 3 (bucks: 8-pt, 6-pt, 3-pt) II. BIRDS: 39 SPECIES, 1 HYBRID. (Tied for Census Low on 01/01/2010 & 02/01/2013)(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen) - Canada Goose - 143 - Wood Duck - 22 (14m,8f) - American Black Duck - 25 (15m,10f) - Mallard - 113 (63m,49f,1*) - American Black DuckXMallard - 1 - Great Blue Heron - 3 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f) - Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 - Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 immature) - American Coot - 1 - Ring-billed Gull - 1 - Rock Pigeon - 22 - Mourning Dove - 161 (New Census High - previous was 46 on 12/07/2013) - Eastern Screech Owl - 3 (1 gray morph,2* - New Census High - previous was 2 on five different occasions) - Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,2f,1*) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (2m,4f,4?,4*) - Downy Woodpecker - 18 (5m,4f,2?,7*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 12 (4f,3?,5*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1?,3*) - Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f) - Blue Jay - 37 - American Crow - 55 - Black-capped Chickadee - 33 - Tufted Titmouse - 15 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 23 (7m,3f,4?,9*) - Carolina Wren - 5 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (m) - Eastern Bluebird - 25 (15m,7f,2?,1*) - American Robin - 27 - European Starling - 55 - Cedar Waxwing - 15 - American Tree Sparrow - 32 - Song Sparrow - 15 - Swamp Sparrow - 1 - White-throated Sparrow - 21 - Northern Cardinal - 44 (21m,14f,9*) - Common Grackle - 15 (First December Record on Census) - House Finch - 8 (1m,1f,4?,2*) - American Goldfinch - 27 - House Sparrow - 63 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. - Creek Chub - 200+ 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]