FEBRUARY 05, 2016 - Cuyahoga Valley Monthly Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail from Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd.TIME: 7:30am-3:45pm TEMP.: 25-42-39 COND.: Mostly sunny with clouds/sun mix turning sunny with blue skies back to mostly sunny with clouds/sun mix again. No snow cover; Dover Pond was ice-free, Ira Beaver Marsh had skim-ice melting away to 3/4 open.TRAIL COND.: Frozen & rutted, thawing to sloppy & muddy. RIVER COND.: Above normal from last week's rains, swift & muddy.FT.MI.: 13.51 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
- Red Squirrel - 41
- White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 41 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
- Canada Goose - 106
- American Black Duck - 25 (14m,11f)
- Mallard - 70 (45m,25f)
- Common Goldeneye - 1 (f - First February Record)
- Common Merganser - 1 (m)
- Great Blue Heron - 2
- Bald Eagle - 4 (3 adult,1 immature)
- Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
- Red-tailed Hawk - 7 (1 immature)
- Ring-billed Gull - 20
- Herring Gull - 27
- Rock Pigeon - 11
- Mourning Dove - 3
- Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph)
- Belted Kingfisher - 3 (m)
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 (3m,2f,3?,4*)
- Downy Woodpecker - 19 (6m,6f,2?,5*)
- Hairy Woodpecker - 7 (1m,2f,3?,1*)
- Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*)
- Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m)
- Blue Jay - 23
- American Crow - 36
- Black-capped Chickadee - 36
- Tufted Titmouse - 13
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 31 (12m,6f,2?,11*)
- Carolina Wren - 5
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 (1m,1f,2*)
- Eastern Bluebird - 13 (4m,8f,1?)
- American Robin - 5
- European Starling - 83
- Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)
- American Tree Sparrow - 33
- Chipping Sparrow - 1 (at thistle feeder at house just west of Lock 32 in Boston - First February Record)
- Song Sparrow - 8
- White-throated Sparrow - 17
- Dark-eyed Junco - 18 (10m,4f,4?)
- Northern Cardinal - 30 (19m,8f,3*)
- Red-winged Blackbird - 2 (m)
- House Finch - 4 (2m,1f,1*)
- American Goldfinch - 17
- House Sparrow - 22
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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