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. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]