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. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]