*JULY 06, 2018 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.*
*HIKE*: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Valley, with stops at
Trail Mix in Peninsula and Szalay's Farm Market on Bolanz Rd.  *TIME*:
5:50am - 4:20pm  *TEMP.*: 72 ~ 79 ~ 77
*COND*.: Overcast early, turning sunny, pleasant, and breezy.  *RIVER COND.*:
High, swift, and muddy from overnight thunderstorms; no rock or sandbars
visible until south of Bolanz Rd.
*TRAIL COND.*: Wet and soggy early with many branches littering the trail
from overnight thunderstorms; drying out and fair from Bolanz Rd. south,
some standing puddles of water; the
first footbridge south of Deep Lock remains out, but steel plates over the
creek allowed access south; the second footbridge south of Deep Lock is
complete; Furnace Run footbridge is still out.
*FT.MI.*: 13.63  *OBS.*: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.

*I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.*

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 3 (young)
   2. Eastern Chipmunk - 10
   3. Woodchuck - 1 (young)
   4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
   5. Red Squirrel - 17
   6. American Beaver - 1  (in the Cuyahoga River near Stanford Swamp)

*II. BIRDS: 74 SPECIES, 1,259 TOTAL BIRDS.*
*(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not seen)*

   1. Canada Goose - 4
   2. Wood Duck - 9 (7 immature,2 ducklings)
   3. Mallard - 1 (f)
   4. Common Merganser - 1 (f)  (actively fishing at the Peninsula Rapids -
   First July Record on Census)
   5. Mourning Dove - 8
   6. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
   7. Chimney Swift - 7
   8. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (*)
   9. Killdeer - 15  (all in Szalay's corn field behind the Everett Rd.
   Ranger Station)
   10. Great Blue Heron - 4
   11. Green Heron - 4
   12. Turkey Vulture - 8
   13. Osprey - 1  (carrying a large fish above Merriman Rd. south of Smith
   Rd. roundabout)
   14. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m)
   15. Broad-winged Hawk - 2
   16. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 juvenile)
   17. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (m)
   18. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1  (adult at Brandywine Creek)
   19. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 (2f,1?,3*,2 juvenile)
   20. Downy Woodpecker - 15 (1m,1 juvenile m,8f,1?,4*)
   21. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (*)
   22. Northern Flicker - 6 (1m,1f,1?,3*)
   23. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (2m,2 juvenile)
   24. Peregrine Falcon 3 (1m,2 juvenile)
   25. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4
   26. Acadian Flycatcher - 5
   27. Willow Flycatcher - 4
   28. Eastern Phoebe - 2
   29. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
   30. Eastern Kingbird - 7
   31. White-eyed Vireo - 1
   32. Yellow-throated Vireo - 3
   33. Warbling Vireo - 14
   34. Red-eyed Vireo - 9
   35. Blue Jay - 21
   36. American Crow - 5
   37. Tree Swallow - 13 (10 juvenile)
   38. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 13 (6 juvenile)
   39. Bank Swallow - 7
   40. Barn Swallow - 8
   41. Black-capped Chickadee - 18
   42. Tufted Titmouse - 20
   43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 11 (1f,6?,4*)
   44. House Wren - 2
   45. Carolina Wren - 12
   46. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 (?)
   47. Eastern Bluebird - 4 (1m,2?,1 juvenile)
   48. Veery - 3
   49. American Robin - 51 (4 juvenile,1 nest in a willow tree)
   50. Gray Catbird - 17
   51. European Starling - 103
   52. Cedar Waxwing - 12
   53. House Sparrow - 42
   54. House Finch - 5 (2m,3*)
   55. American Goldfinch - 43 (29m,4f,7?,3*)
   56. Louisiana Waterthrush - 3
   57. Blue-winged Warbler - 3 (1m,1f,1 juvenile)
   58. Common Yellowthroat - 28
   59. Hooded Warbler - 5
   60. Yellow Warbler - 3 (2m,1f)
   61. Eastern Towhee - 2 (m)
   62. Chipping Sparrow - 5
   63. Field Sparrow - 2
   64. Song Sparrow - 64
   65. Swamp Sparrow - 25  (New Census High - previous was 21 in 06/2017)
   66. Scarlet Tanager - 4 (3m,1*)
   67. Northern Cardinal - 40 (27m,3f,2 juvenile f,5*,3 juvenile*)
   68. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (m)
   69. Indigo Bunting - 17 (16m,1*)
   70. Red-winged Blackbird - 63 (39m,18f,4?,2 juvenile)
   71. Common Grackle - 387
   72. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (5m,2f,1*)
   73. Orchard Oriole - 4 (2m,1f,1 juvenile)
   74. Baltimore Oriole - 9 (5m,4f,1 nest in an American sycamore)

Unidentified Passerines - 9

*III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.*

   1. Common Snapping Turtle - 7
   2. Red-eared Turtle - 2
   3. Midland Painted Turtle - 112
   4. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 12


*IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES.*

   1. American Toad - 1 (toadlet)
   2. Gray Treefrog - 2 (heard)
   3. Bullfrog - 4 (1 heard,1 tadpole)
   4. Green Frog - 40 (38 heard)


*V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.*

   1. Common Carp - 1  (in Red Lock)
   2. Largemouth Bass - 1  (2-inch fry in Ira Beaver Marsh)


*VI. BUTTERFLIES: 11 SPECIES.*

   1. Cabbage Butterfly - 8
   2. Clouded Sulphur - 1
   3. Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1  (female behind the Akron Compost Facility on
   clover - First Record on Census)
   4. Great Spangled Fritillary - 4  (Tied Census High from 07/2017)
   5. Pearl Crescent - 4
   6. Mourning Cloak - 1  (Tied Census High from 7 other occasions)
   7. Red Admiral - 1
   8. Red-spotted Purple - 3
   9. Little Wood Satyr - 1
   10. Monarch - 4
   11. Hobomok Skipper - 1  (Tied Census High from 06/2014)


*VII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 13 SPECIES.*

   1. Common Green Darner - 4
   2. Lancet Clubtail - 1
   3. Eastern Pondhawk - 1
   4. Widow Skimmer - 6
   5. Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 2
   6. Blue Dasher - 20+
   7. Wandering Glider - 4
   8. Common Whitetail - 5
   9. Ruby Meadowhawk - 10+
   10. Ebony Jewelwing - 13
   11. Blue-fronted Dancer - 20+
   12. Blue-tipped Dancer - 8
   13. Azure Bluet - 11


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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