APRIL 02, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:30am-2:55pm TEMP.: 35-53-49 COND.: Chilly early; clouds/sun mix turning mostly sunny; cloudy with light west winds from 11:30am on. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 3 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 4. Red Squirrel - 4 5. White-tailed Deer - 10 II. BIRDS: 50 SPECIES, 1 Exotic/Escape (e). (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 99 e. Greylag Goose - 1 2. Wood Duck - 14 (7m,6f,1*) 3. Mallard - 30 (16m,12f,2*) 4. Common Loon - 4 (fly-overs south of Bath Rd. - 2 headed northeast & 2 headed north) 5. Great Blue Heron - 3 6. Turkey Vulture - 29 7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) 8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 10. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - eating a starling or grackle) 11. American Coot - 1 12. Killdeer - 6 13. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 14. Herring Gull - 1 15. Rock Pigeon - 3 16. Mourning Dove - 17 17. Belted Kingfisher - 6 (3m,1f,2*) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (3m,3f,10*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 20 (8m,7f,5*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (4m,1f,1*) 21. Northern Flicker - 4 (1m,4*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 7 (*) 23. Eastern Phoebe - 6 24. Blue Jay - 34 25. American Crow - 31 26. Tree Swallow - 17 27. Black-capped Chickadee - 55 28. Tufted Titmouse - 33 29. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 (5m,1f,4?,4*) 30. Brown Creeper - 1 31. Carolina Wren - 3 32. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1?) 33. Eastern Bluebird - 4 (2m,2*) 34. American Robin - 76 35. European Starling - 23 36. Cedar Waxwing - 5 37. American Tree Sparrow - 12 38. Field Sparrow - 1 39. Song Sparrow - 72 40. Swamp Sparrow - 2 41. White-throated Sparrow - 12 42. Dark-eyed Junco - 7 (4m,3f) 43. Northern Cardinal - 66 (48m,12f,6*) 44. Red-winged Blackbird - 68 (66m,2f) 45. Rusty Blackbird - 34 (26m,8f) 46. Common Grackle - 52 47. Brown-headed Cowbird - 15 (12m,3f) 48. House Finch - 13 (5m,5f,1?,2*) 49. American Goldfinch - 21 50. House Sparrow - 19 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 76 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (*) Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]