DECEMBER 08, 2019 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS. ROUTE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:30am - 4:15pm TEMP.: 26F ~ 50F ~ 48F COND.: Cold and overcast early, becoming partly sunny and warming around 11:15am; turning cloudy from 1:30pm until end of hike; Brandywine Pond and Dover Pond frozen with skim-ice; Ira Beaver Marsh had one open pocket of water at NW corner of pond. TRAIL COND.: Ideal and frozen early, no snow cover; trail turning sloppy and slick from 11:15am until end of hike. RIVER COND.: Slightly above normal. OBS.: John Henry, Jim Reyda (Stanford Swamp to Ohio Turnpike bridge), Douglas W. Vogus. FT.MI.: 13.70 I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (black morph) 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 3. Red Squirrel - 16 4. White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe) II. BIRDS: 45 SPECIES, 1 HYBRID, 810 TOTAL BIRDS. (NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 149 2. American Black Duck - 56 (all at Ira Beaver Marsh - New Census High - previous was 28 on 03/2014) 3. Mallard - 53 (31m,22f) 4. Redhead - 1 (f) (at Ira Beaver Marsh - First December Record on Census) 5. Rock Pigeon - 12 6. Mourning Dove - 5 7. Ring-billed Gull - 74 8. Herring Gull - 17 9. Great Blue Heron - 2 10. Bald Eagle - 4 (3 adult, 1 immature) 11. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) 12. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 13. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 immature) 14. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) 15. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,1?,2*) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 (2m,2f,3*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 16 (4m,6f,4?,2*) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1m,2*) 19. Northern Flicker - 4 (1m,3*) 20. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) 21. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f) (perched atop an Eastern Cottonwood tree at Stanford Swamp) 22. Blue Jay - 32 23. American Crow - 74 24. Black-capped Chickadee - 20 25. Tufted Titmouse - 9 26. White-breasted Nuthatch - 19 (5m,3f,3?,8*) 27. Brown Creeper - 1 28. Carolina Wren - 17 29. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 (1f,4?) 30. Eastern Bluebird - 21 (10m,4f,6?,1*) 31. American Robin - 6 32. European Starling - 58 33. Cedar Waxwing - 12 34. House Sparrow - 26 35. House Finch - 4 (1m,3?) 36. American Goldfinch - 15 37. Eastern Towhee - 5 (2m,1f,2*) 38. American Tree Sparrow - 12 39. Song Sparrow - 9 40. Swamp Sparrow - 3 41. White-throated Sparrow - 11 42. Dark-eyed Junco - 3 (2m,1f) 43. Northern Cardinal - 19 (9m,6f,4*) 44. Common Grackle - 1 45. Brown-headed Cowbird - 6 (m) HYBRID: American Black Duck X Mallard - 1 (m) (at Ira Beaver Marsh - Tied Census High from 7 other occasions) Unidentified Passerines - 3 III. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - 3 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]