JANUARY 01, 2015 - Cuyahoga Valley Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:25am-3:35pm TEMP.: 17-34-32COND.: Cold, sunny & breezy; no snow cover; all small ponds iced over.FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 8

   - Red Squirrel - 13
   - White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 40 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen)
   - Canada Goose - 147

   - Wood Duck - 3 (1m,2f)
   - American Black Duck - 3 (2m,1f)
   - Mallard - 107 (65m,42f)
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 1
   - Great Blue Heron - 3
   - Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult, 2 immature - Tied Census High from 03/2014)
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature male)
   - Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 4
   - Ring-billed Gull - 382
   - Herring Gull - 10
   - Rock Pigeon - 14
   - Mourning Dove - 1
   - Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 (both gray morphs)
   - Belted Kingfisher - 1 (?)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (6m,6f,2?,2*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 14 (5m,4f,1?,4*)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (3f,2?)
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
   - Blue Jay - 15
   - American Crow - 172
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 38
   - Tufted Titmouse - 18
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 20 (4m,4f,6?,6*)
   - Brown Creeper - 1
   - Carolina Wren - 2
   - Eastern Bluebird - 8 (2m,4f,2?)
   - Northern Mockingbird - 1 (Tied Census High - 10/2010, 11/2014 & 12/2014)
   - European Starling - 311
   - Eastern Towhee - 3 (*)
   - American Tree Sparrow - 40
   - Song Sparrow - 10
   - Swamp Sparrow - 1
   - White-throated Sparrow - 12
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 9 (8m,1*)
   - Northern Cardinal - 44 (18m,15f,11*)
   - House Finch - 12 (2m,1f,8?,1*)
   - American Goldfinch - 23
   - House Sparrow - 19
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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