Date: 11/2/24 3:49 am From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Cuyahoga Valley Towpath Census
NOVEMBER 01, 2024 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS. ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley, with a stop at the Peninsula Coffe House for lunch. TIME: 7:50am - 5:00pm TIME AFIELD: 9:10 TEMP.: 44F ~ 55F ~ 53F COND.: Brisk and mostly sunny until 8:35am; breezy with winds shifting from the north, bringing total cloud cover to the Cuyahoga Valley for the rest of the census. TRAIL COND.: Great; leaf-blown and dry. RIVER COND.: Lowest to date - dark from fallen leaves with many exposed rockbars and sandbars, and exposed rocks and rock shelves never seen before. FT. MI.: 13.85 OBS.: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES, 64 TOTAL.
1. Eastern Cottontail - 1 (Second November Record on Census) 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 34 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 6 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 5. Red Squirrel - 15 6. White-tailed Deer - 4 (9-pt. buck,6-pt. buck,2 does)
II. BIRDS: 51 SPECIES, 1 HYBRID, 2,282 TOTAL. *(14-year November average is 49.2 Species with a low of 43 Species in 2020 and a high of 55 Species in 2012)* (NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 54 2. Wood Duck - 8 (4m,4f) 3. American Black Duck - 28 (15m,13f) 4. Mallard - 43 (25m,18f) 5. Rock Pigeon - 4 6. Mourning Dove - 3 7. Killdeer - 5 8. Ring-billed Gull - 7 (one flock over Boston) 9. Great Blue Heron - 4 (one caught a large Green Frog at Ira Beaver Marsh) 10. Turkey Vulture - 1 11. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (adult male that tried and missed for an Eastern Chipmunk at Stumpy Basin) 12. Bald Eagle - 7 (four adults in sky at same time over east side of Stanford Swamp and two adults and one immature over Szalay's corn field in Everett) 13. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 14. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (2 immature) 15. Belted Kingfisher - 5 (4m,1?) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 42 (15m,6f,7?,14*) (New Census High - previous was 29 on 11/2014) 17. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 (f) (Fourth November Record on Census) 18. Downy Woodpecker - 28 (11m,9f,3?,4*) 19. Hairy Woodpecker - 13 (3m,4f,1?,5*) 20. Northern Flicker - 6 (1f,2?,3*) 21. Pileated Woodpecker - 7 (1m,1f,1?,4*) 22. Northern Shrike - 1 (east side of Stanford Swamp, then flew to northeast end of swamp, briefly landed, then continued north again, to Jaite Swamp? Fourth Record on Census, First November Record on Census & Tied Census High from 02/2014, 03/2015 & 01/2024) 23. Blue Jay - 43 24. American Crow - 34 25. Black-capped Chickadee - 18 26. Tufted Titmouse - 18 27. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 (f) 28. Cedar Waxwing - 302 29. White-breasted Nuthatch - 20 (9m,4f,1?,6*) 30. Carolina Wren - 27 31. Winter Wren - 1 32. Gray Catbird - 1 (at Ira Beaver Marsh - First November Record on Census) 33. European Starling - 501 34. Eastern Bluebird - 33 (8m,7f,12?,6*) 35. Hermit Thrush - 1 (at Ira Beaver Marsh - First November Record on Census) 36. American Robin - 295 37. House Sparrow - 12 38. House Finch - 15 (4m,5f,5?,1*) 39. Purple Finch - 14 (5m,9f) (6 at Red Lock,1 south of Deep Lock, and 7 along Riverview Rd. at Lock 25 - all feasting on wild grapes and honeysuckle berries - Fourth November Record on Census & New Census High - previous was 6 on 02/2011) 40. American Goldfinch - 20 41. Fox Sparrow - 2 42. Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (1m,1f,2?,2*) 43. White-throated Sparrow - 48 44. Song Sparrow - 10 45. Swamp Sparrow - 5 46. Eastern Towhee - 4 (all males and together scratching in the leaf-litter south of Deep Lock) 47. Red-winged Blackbird - 121 (102m,19f) 48. Rusty Blackbird - 21 (3m,5f,13?) 49. Common Grackle - 350 (all in one flock moving through the sycamores south of Deep Lock) 50. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7 51. Northern Cardinal - 29 (14m,6f,9*)
HYBRID: American Black Duck X Mallard - 1 (m) (at Ira Beaver Marsh - 18th. Record on Census & Third November Record on Census - all at Ira Beaver Marsh) ??. Unidentified Duck Species - 10 (early morning lowlight flight of ten heading south above the Cuyahoga River at Red Lock - possible Common Mergansers) ??. Unidentified Hawk (Buteo) Species - 1 (fleeting glimpse and lost behind the Ohio Turnpike bridge) ??. Unidentified Kinglet Species - 1 (fleeting glimpse and backlit that dropped into thicket across canal at Ira Beaver Marsh) ??. Unidentified Blackbird Species - 24 (distant fly-by's in bad light) ??. Unidentified Passerines - 11
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES, 17 TOTAL.
1. Red-eared Turtle - 6 (Fourth November Record on Census) 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 10 3. Northern Water Snake - 1 (First November Record on Census)
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES, 14 TOTAL.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 8 (heard only) 2. American Bullfrog - 3 (Fifth November Record on Census) 3. Green Frog - 3 (Fourth November Record on Census)
V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES, 70 TOTAL.
1. Central Mudminnow - 3 (Third November Record on Census) 2. Creek Chub - 18 3. Bluntnose Minnow - 49 (Fifth November Record on Census)
VI. DRAGONFLIES: 2 SPECIES, 5 TOTAL.
1. Shadow Darner - 2 (Fourth November Record on Census) 2. Autumn Meadowhawk - 3 (Fifth November Record on Census)
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