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.
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