APRIL 02, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:00am-3:35pm TEMP.: 38-51-40COND.: Cloudy & windy, winds W at 5-15mph, gusting to 20mph; turning partly sunny until 1:30pm, then cloudingback up, with rain/snow mix from 2:50pm until end of census.TRAIL COND.: Fair - usual puddles & mud on last leg from Botzum to Merriman Valley.RIVER COND.: High, swift & muddy from 04/01 rains.FT.MI.: 13.85 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Red Squirrel - 13 - Muskrat - 1 - Eastern Cottontail - 1 - White-tailed Deer - 6 (doe) II. BIRDS: 49 SPECIES, 593 INDIVIDUALS, 1 SPECIES NEW TO CENSUS.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 77 (4 nests) - Trumpeter Swan - 2 (at Ira Beaver Marsh - New Species on Census - now 178 total species since 01/2010) - Wood Duck - 16 (9m,6f,1?) - American Black Duck - 1 (m) - Mallard - 22 (15m,7f) - Ring-necked Duck - 2 (1m,1f) - Pied-billed Grebe - 1 - Great Blue Heron - 34 - Turkey Vulture - 11 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f) - Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (1 nest) - Killdeer - 4 - Ring-billed Gull - 2 - Mourning Dove - 6 - Belted Kingfisher - 4 (2m,1?,1*) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 (3m,2f,4*) - Downy Woodpecker - 9 (2m,4f,1?,2*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1f,2*) - Northern Flicker - 8 (3m,1f,1?,3*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*) - Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f - male gave a small blackbird to female) - Eastern Phoebe - 2 - Blue Jay - 13 - American Crow - 13 - Tree Swallow - 9 - Black-capped Chickadee - 22 (1 nest) - Tufted Titmouse - 14 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 11 (5m,2f,4*) - Carolina Wren - 8 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 15 (2f,11?,2*) - Eastern Bluebird - 2 (1m,1*) - American Robin - 22 (1 nest) - European Starling - 5 - American Tree Sparrow - 2 - Chipping Sparrow - 2 - Field Sparrow - 1 - Fox Sparrow - 10 (New Census High - previous was 3 on 11/2010 & 04/2013) - Song Sparrow - 35 - Swamp Sparrow - 7 - White-throated Sparrow - 1 - Dark-eyed Junco - 5 (3m,2f) - Northern Cardinal - 32 (24m,6f,2*) - Red-winged Blackbird - 45 (36m,3f,6?) - Common Grackle - 44 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 19 (15m,4f) - House Finch - 4 (3m,1*) - American Goldfinch - 10 (6m,2f,2?) - House Sparrow - 5 - Unidentified Passerines - 11 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. - Common Snapping Turtle - 1 - Midland Painted Turtle - 129 - Eastern Garter Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. - Northern Spring Peeper - 9 (heard only) - Western Chorus Frog - 1 (heard only) 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]