JANUARY 01, 2016 - Cuyahoga Valley Monthly Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:45am-4:10pm TEMP.: 28-34-30COND.: An ongoing change of clouds/sun mix until 12:45pm; then cloudy from then on; winds W/NW changing toW/SW at 5-10mph, occasional gusts to 15mph.FT.MI.: 13.51 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (2 black morph) - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Red Squirrel - 15 - White-tailed Deer - 9 (8-pt buck,6-pt buck,7 does) II. BIRDS: 43 SPECIES, 2,147 TOTAL BIRDS.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 169 - American Black Duck - 20 (12m,8f) - Mallard - 68 (40m,28f) - (hybrid) American Black DuckXMallard - 1 - Hooded Merganser - 2 (1m,1f - at Dover Pond - First January Record on Census) - Common Loon - 1 (fly-over headed south at Akron Composting Facility - First January Record on Census) - Double-crested Cormorant - 16 (one flock fly-over headed south near Brandywine Creek - First January Record on Census) - Great Blue Heron - 3 - Bald Eagle - 5 (2 adult,3 immature - Tied Census High from 03/06/2015) - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature f) - Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 immature) - Ring-billed Gull - 346 - Herring Gull - 4 - Rock Pigeon - 21 - Mourning Dove - 70 - Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,2*) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 (3m,3f,2?,3*) - Downy Woodpecker - 17 (8m,7f,1?,1*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 12 (5m,3f,4*) - Northern Flicker - 1 (*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) - Blue Jay - 14 - American Crow - 601 - Black-capped Chickadee - 30 - Tufted Titmouse - 13 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 17 (7m,1f,2?,7*) - Carolina Wren - 3 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 (2m,2f) - Eastern Bluebird - 15 (8m,7f) - American Robin - 87 - European Starling - 311 - Cedar Waxwing - 44 - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 - American Tree Sparrow - 86 - Song Sparrow - 10 - White-throated Sparrow - 14 - Dark-eyed Junco - 24 (14m,10f) - Northern Cardinal - 32 (14m,14f,4*) - Rusty Blackbird - 1 (m - Lock 29 parking lot in Peninsula) - Unidentified Blackbird - 8 (one distant flock) - House Finch - 1 (*) - American Goldfinch - 25 - House Sparrow - 10 - Unidentified Passerines - 18 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]