NOVEMBER 05, 2021 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.
ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley, with a stop at Trail
Mix in Peninsula.
TIME: 8:00am - 5:40pm  TEMP.: 34F ~ 52F ~ 48F  COND.: Chilly and crisp
early; turning sunny and clear, blue skies with few clouds; beautiful
Autumn day.
TRAIL COND.: Good.  RIVER COND.: Slightly above normal.
FT. MI.: 13.51  OBS.: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Chipmunk - 71
   2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 (3 black morph)
   3. Red Squirrel - 29
   4. Common Muskrat - 3
   5. White-tailed Deer - 6 (8-pt buck,4 doe,1 unknown)


II. BIRDS: 51 SPECIES, 1,302 TOTAL BIRDS.
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not sexed)

   1. Canada Goose - 59
   2. Wood Duck - 1 (*)
   3. American Black Duck - 30 (?)
   4. Mallard - 17 (10m,7f)
   5. Green-winged Teal - 1 (f)  (at Ira Beaver Marsh - Second Record on
   Census, First November Record on Census, and Tied Census High from 10/2010)
   6. Common Merganser - 4 (f)  (Cuyahoga River at Stumpy Basin - Second
   November Record on Census)
   7. Rock Pigeon - 8
   8. Mourning Dove - 6
   9. Ring-billed Gull - 2
   10. Herring Gull - 3  (Fourth November Record on Census)
   11. Great Blue Heron - 2
   12. Turkey Vulture - 1
   13. Bald Eagle - 4 (adult)
   14. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
   15. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (2 immature)
   16. Belted Kingfisher - 6 (2m,2?,2*)
   17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 21 (6m,7f,3?,5*)
   18. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 (m)  (Second November Record on Census)
   19. Downy Woodpecker - 17 (4m,7f,6*)
   20. Hairy Woodpecker - 7 (2m,1f,4*)
   21. Northern Flicker - 4 (1f,1?,2*)
   22. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1f,2*)
   23. American Kestrel - 1 (f)  (at east side of Stanford Swamp - First
   November Record on Census)
   24. Blue Jay - 38
   25. American Crow - 397
   26. Black-capped Chickadee - 23
   27. Tufted Titmouse - 16
   28. White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 (4m,1f,4*)
   29. Brown Creeper - 1
   30. Winter Wren - 1
   31. Carolina Wren - 16
   32. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 (1f,2?,2*)
   33. Eastern Bluebird - 16 (7m,5f,4?)
   34. American Robin - 36
   35. European Starling - 53
   36. Cedar Waxwing - 61
   37. House Sparrow - 28  (plus 1 dead)
   38. House Finch - 4 (2f,2*)
   39. American Goldfinch - 13
   40. Fox Sparrow - 2
   41. American Tree Sparrow - 2
   42. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (?)
   43. White-throated Sparrow - 52
   44. Song Sparrow - 15
   45. Swamp Sparrow - 2
   46. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)
   47. Red-winged Blackbird - 48 (40m,8f)
   48. Rusty Blackbird - 2 (m)
   49. Common Grackle - 211
   50. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
   51. Northern Cardinal - 25 (7m,7f,11*)

Unidentified Passerines - 17

III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Midland Painted Turtle - 1


IV. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Creek Chub - 20
   2. Bluntnose Minnow - 60  (Second November Record on Census)


V. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.

   1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1  (Third November Record on Census)


VI. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Shadow Darner - 1  (First November Record on Census)
   2. Autumn Meadowhawk - 4  (Second November Record on Census)


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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