APRIL 02, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Metro Parks, Serving Summit County
Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Rd.
TIME: 7:05am-2:10pm TEMP.: 44-85 COND.: Chilly early giving way to unseasonably warm weather, sunny with blue skies.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
Eastern Chipmunk - 1
Eastern Fox Squirrel - 9
Red Squirrel - 17
Muskrat - 1
White-tailed Deer - 23
II. BIRDS: 49 SPECIES (plus 1 feral/domestic)
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen)
Canada Goose - 48 (4 nests)
Feral/domestic "Barnyard Goose" - 1
Wood Duck - 5 (3m,1f,1*)
Mallard - 13 (11m,2f)
Great Blue Heron - 2
Turkey Vulture - 6
Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f)
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (carrying nesting material)
Red-tailed Hawk - 13 (1 immature)
American Kestrel - 1 (f)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m)
Killdeer - 7
Ring-billed Gull - 7
Herring Gull - 3
Mourning Dove - 16
Belted Kingfisher - 9 (3m,2f,1?,3*)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (4m,2f,2?,8*)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 11 (1m,3f,7*)
Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (f)
Northern Flicker - 12 (4m,1f,1?,6*)
Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*)
Eastern Phoebe - 9
Blue Jay - 19
American Crow - 11
Tree Swallow - 12
Black-capped Chickadee - 33 (3 nests under way)
Tufted Titmouse - 20
White-breasted Nuthatch - 13 (8m,2f,3*)
Carolina Wren - 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (f)
Eastern Bluebird - 5 (3m,2f)
American Robin - 76
European Starling - 17
Eastern Towhee - 1 (m)
Field Sparrow - 3
Fox Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 99
Swamp Sparrow - 4
White-throated Sparrow - 8
Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (f)
Northern Cardinal - 55 (41m,9f,5*)
Red-winged Blackbird - 60 (54m,6f)
Eastern Meadowlark - 1
Rusty Blackbird - 6 (4m,2f)
Common Grackle - 35
Brown-headed Cowbird - 27 (22m,5f)
House Finch - 8 (1m,3?,4*)
American Goldfinch - 27
House Sparrow - 16
III. REPTILES: 6 SPECIES.
Common Snapping Turtle - 2
Red-eared Turtle - 1
Midland Painted Turtle - 204
Eastern Spiny Softshell - 3
Northern Brown Snake - 1
Eastern Garter Snake - 2
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 7 SPECIES.
American Toad - (* - many)
Northern Spring Peeper - (* - many)
Western Chorus Frog - (* - many)
Bullfrog - 3
Green Frog - 4
Wood Frog - 2 (*)
Northern Leopard Frog - 47
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
Creek Chub - many
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.
Cabbage Butterfly - 6
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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