OCTOBER 01, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Towpath Trail Monthly Census. HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:20am-3:35pm TEMP.: 49-50-48 COND.: Overcast with light rain until 10:20am; gray & cloudy; light, misty rain from 12:10pm-3:15pm FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 39 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 4. Red Squirrel - 11 5. White-tailed Deer - 10 (doe) II. BIRDS: 63 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 242 2. Wood Duck - 37 (4m,4f,29?) 3. Mallard - 3 (2m,1f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 10 5. Turkey Vulture - 3 6. Bald Eagle - 1 (immature) 7. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 immature) 8. Merlin - 1(m) 9. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f) 10. Ring-billed Gull - 5 11. Herring Gull - 3 12. Rock Pigeon - 35 13. Mourning Dove - 3 14. Chimney Swift - 8 15. Belted Kingfisher - 5 (3m,2*) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (3m,2f,2?,7*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 7 (2f,1?,4*) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 12 (2m,1f,1?,8*) 19. Northern Flicker - 5 (2?,3*) 20. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (m) 21. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 22. Eastern Phoebe - 4 23. Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 24. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 25. Blue Jay - 46 26. American Crow - 53 27. Tree Swallow - 36 28. Black-capped Chickadee - 41 29. Tufted Titmouse - 21 30. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (m) 31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (2m,1?,5*) 32. Carolina Wren - 5 33. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (1f,2*) 34. Veery - 1 35. Swainson's Thrush - 2 36. American Robin - 63 37. Gray Catbird - 7 38. European Starling - 23 39. Cedar Waxwing - 139 40. Tennessee Warbler - 2 41. Orange-crowned Warbler - 2 42. Nashville Warbler - 5 43. Magnolia Warbler - 7 44. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6 45. Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 46. Blackburnian Warbler - 1 47. Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 48. Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 49. Blackpoll Warbler - 2 50. Common Yellowthroat - 4 51. Scarlet Tanager - 4 (m) 52. Eastern Towhee - 2 (1m,1*) 53. Song Sparrow - 9 54. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 55. Swamp Sparrow - 5 56. White-throated Sparrow - 2 57. Northern Cardinal - 44 (14m,1 juv. m,12f,12*,5* juv.) 58. Indigo Bunting - 2 59. Red-winged Blackbird - 251 60. Common Grackle - 81 61. House Finch - 1 (m) 62. American Goldfinch - 17 (1 juv.) 63. House Sparrow - 12 III. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 3 (*) 2. Green Frog - 3 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]