FEBRUARY 05, 2016 - Cuyahoga Valley Monthly Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail from Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd.TIME: 7:30am-3:45pm TEMP.: 25-42-39 COND.: Mostly sunny with clouds/sun mix turning sunny with blue skies back to mostly sunny with clouds/sun mix again. No snow cover; Dover Pond was ice-free, Ira Beaver Marsh had skim-ice melting away to 3/4 open.TRAIL COND.: Frozen & rutted, thawing to sloppy & muddy. RIVER COND.: Above normal from last week's rains, swift & muddy.FT.MI.: 13.51 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 - Red Squirrel - 41 - White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe) II. BIRDS: 41 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 106 - American Black Duck - 25 (14m,11f) - Mallard - 70 (45m,25f) - Common Goldeneye - 1 (f - First February Record) - Common Merganser - 1 (m) - Great Blue Heron - 2 - Bald Eagle - 4 (3 adult,1 immature) - Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 7 (1 immature) - Ring-billed Gull - 20 - Herring Gull - 27 - Rock Pigeon - 11 - Mourning Dove - 3 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) - Belted Kingfisher - 3 (m) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 (3m,2f,3?,4*) - Downy Woodpecker - 19 (6m,6f,2?,5*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 7 (1m,2f,3?,1*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) - Blue Jay - 23 - American Crow - 36 - Black-capped Chickadee - 36 - Tufted Titmouse - 13 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 31 (12m,6f,2?,11*) - Carolina Wren - 5 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 (1m,1f,2*) - Eastern Bluebird - 13 (4m,8f,1?) - American Robin - 5 - European Starling - 83 - Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) - American Tree Sparrow - 33 - Chipping Sparrow - 1 (at thistle feeder at house just west of Lock 32 in Boston - First February Record) - Song Sparrow - 8 - White-throated Sparrow - 17 - Dark-eyed Junco - 18 (10m,4f,4?) - Northern Cardinal - 30 (19m,8f,3*) - Red-winged Blackbird - 2 (m) - House Finch - 4 (2m,1f,1*) - American Goldfinch - 17 - House Sparrow - 22 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]