*NOVEMBER 03, 2018 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.*
*HIKE*: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley, with a stop at Trail
Mix in Peninsula.  *TIME*: 8:00am - 5:25pm  *TEMP.*: 41 ~ 39 ~ 51 ~ 45
*COND.*: Chilly and overcast with steady misty drizzle until 9:15am; cloudy
to mostly cloudy until 11:00am, then partly sunny, blue skies and clouds;
then turning cloudy again and cool.
*TRAIL COND.*: Very wet and sloppy from previous three days of rain.  *RIVER
COND.*: High, swift, and muddy from previous three days of rain - no
sandbars showing.
*FT.MI.*: 13.55  *OBS.*: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus.

*I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.*


   1. Eastern Chipmunk - 9
   2. Woodchuck - 1  (First November Record on Census)
   3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2
   4. Red Squirrel - 16
   5. White-tailed Deer - 3 (1 doe with 2 yearlings)


*II. BIRDS: 50 SPECIES, 1,052 INDIVIDUALS.*
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not sexed)


   1. Canada Goose - 2
   2. American Black Duck - 26 (14m,12f - all at Ira Beaver Marsh)
   3. Mallard - 16 (8m,8f)
   4. Hooded Merganser - 2 (1m,1f - flying south above the Cuyahoga River)
   5. Pied-billed Grebe - 1  (Brandywine Pond)
   6. Mourning Dove - 4
   7. Ring-billed Gull - 3
   8. Great Blue Heron - 7
   9. Turkey Vulture - 1
   10. Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult,2 immature)
   11. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
   12. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 (1 immature)
   13. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1  (red morph)
   14. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1  (adult at Brandywine Creek - First
   November Record on Census)
   15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (5m,2f,1?,6*)
   16. Downy Woodpecker - 12 (4m,2f,1?,5*)
   17. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (*)
   18. Northern Flicker - 4 (2m,2f)
   19. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (*)
   20. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f - "Trailblazer" & "Gatewood" at the Ohio
   Turnpike bridge)
   21. Blue Jay - 59  (New Census High - previous was 57 on 11/2017)
   22. American Crow - 104
   23. Black-capped Chickadee - 26
   24. Tufted Titmouse - 12
   25. White-breasted Nuthatch - 22 (8m,3f,4?,7*)
   26. Winter Wren - 1
   27. Carolina Wren - 15
   28. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (f)
   29. Eastern Bluebird - 14 (5m,2f,2?,5*)
   30. American Robin - 30
   31. European Starling - 252
   32. Cedar Waxwing - 171
   33. House Sparrow - 5
   34. House Finch - 13 (3m,3f,5?,2*)
   35. American Goldfinch - 27
   36. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4
   37. Eastern Towhee - 3 (1f,2*)
   38. American Tree Sparrow - 1
   39. Chipping Sparrow - 2  (First November Record on Census)
   40. Field Sparrow - 2
   41. Fox Sparrow - 2
   42. Song Sparrow - 33
   43. Swamp Sparrow - 4
   44. White-throated Sparrow - 33
   45. White-crowned Sparrow - 10
   46. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (3m,1f,2*)
   47. Northern Cardinal - 35 (13m,11f,11*)
   48. Red-winged Blackbird - 12 (6m,6f)
   49. Rusty Blackbird - 20 (4m,16?)
   50. Common Grackle - 1

Unidentified Passerines - 17

*III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.*

   1. Red-eared Turtle - 1
   2. Midland Painted Turtle - 10


*IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.*

   1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1  (heard calling)
   2. Green Frog - 1


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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