NOVEMBER 09, 2019 - Hike from Summit Metro Parks' The Gorge Metro Park - Glens Trail to Highbridge Trail to Cascade Valley Metro Parks' Chuckery Trail out to Cuyahoga St. to Cascade Valley Metro Parks' Oxbow Trail to the Overlook, Oxbow Trail to Cuyahoga St. to Schumacher Valley Trail to Valley Link Trail to the Towpath Trail to Valley Link Trail to Sand Run Metro Parks' Parcours Trail to Valley Link Trail to the Parkway Jogging Trail to Merriman Valley.
TIME: 7:15am - 1:00pm  TEMP.: 27F ~ 37F  COND.: Chilly, mostly cloudy, light breezes.
FT.MI.: 7.0  OBS.: John Henry, Douglas W. & Michelle Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
  1. Eastern Chipmunk - 5
  2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 9 (1 black morph)
  3. Mink - 1  (along Cuyahoga River at Cuyahoga St. bridge)
  4. White-tailed Deer - 6 (7-pt. buck, 3 does, 2 unknown)

II. BIRDS: 38 SPECIES.
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
  1. Canada Goose - 42
  2. Wood Duck - 31 (15m,16f)
  3. American Black Duck - 1 (m)  (Cuyahoga River above The Gorge dam)
  4. Mallard - 34 (9m,15f)
  5. Hooded Merganser - 1 (m)  (Cuyahoga River above The Gorge dam)
  6. Pied-billed Grebe - 1  (oxbow along the Cuyahoga River east of Cuyahoga St.)
  7. Mourning Dove - 1
  8. Ring-billed Gull - 114  (fly-overs at the Signal Tree in Cascade Valley Metro Park)
  9. Great Blue Heron - 1
  10. Bald Eagle - 2  (adults over the Cuyahoga River at the Overlook)
  11. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f)
  12. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (2 immature)
  13. Barred Owl - 1  (roosting in a Scotch pine along Sand Run Metro Parks' Parcours Trail)
  14. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 (3m,2f,5*)
  15. Downy Woodpecker - 5 (1m,1f,1?,2*)
  16. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*)
  17. Northern Flicker - 2 (1m,1*)
  18. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (f)
  19. Blue Jay - 21
  20. American Crow - 2
  21. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
  22. Tufted Titmouse - 4
  23. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (1?,4*)
  24. Winter Wren - 1
  25. Carolina Wren - 7
  26. American Robin - 41
  27. European Starling - 23
  28. House Sparrow - 3
  29. House Finch - 8 (2m,2f,2?,2*)
  30. American Goldfinch - 61 (1 dead)
  31. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3
  32. Eastern Towhee - 2 (1m,1*)
  33. Fox Sparrow - 1
  34. Song Sparrow - 2
  35. White-throated Sparrow - 6
  36. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (5m,1f)
  37. Northern Cardinal - 19 (5m,10f,4*)
  38. Red-winged Blackbird - 20 (?)

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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