*OCTOBER 07, 2017 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.*
*ROUTE*: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley (with stops at Trail
Mix in Peninsula and Szalay's Farm Market.)  *TIME*: 7:35pm - 5:00pm
*TEMP.*: 61 ~ 82
COND.: Light fog early, then mostly cloudy; partly cloudy from 10:30am -
11:30am; sunny and warming 11:30am - 12:45pm, turning mostly sunny and
breezy, winds S/SW at 5-15mph rest of day.
*TRAIL COND.*: Good.  *RIVER COND.*: Very low with good visibility; many
rock and sandbars exposed - no significant rainfall since early September.
*FT.MI.*: 13.93  *OBS.*: Michelle Vogus (halfway between Peninsula and
Bolanz Rd. to Ira Trailhead) and Douglas W. Vogus.

*I. MAMMALS*: 5 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Chipmunk - 62
   2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black morph)
   3. Red Squirrel - 8
   4. Common Muskrat - 1
   5. White-tailed Deer - 4 (doe)


*II. BIRDS*: 52 SPECIES, 1,536 TOTAL BIRDS (Lowest October Total - previous
low was 53 Species in 2012; Last Year: 71 Species and 1,913 Total Birds)
*(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not sexed)*

   1. Canada Goose - 202
   2. Wood Duck - 5 (1m,4f)
   3. Mallard - 15 (6m,2f,7?)
   4. Mourning Dove - 4
   5. Chimney Swift - 58
   6. Killdeer - 8
   7. Solitary Sandpiper - 1  *(First October Record on Census)*
   8. Ring-billed Gull - 3
   9. Double-crested Cormorant - 1  *(First October Record on Census)*
   10. Great Blue Heron - 6
   11. Turkey Vulture - 19
   12. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (1 immature)
   13. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (2m,2?)
   14. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 26 (4m,7f,2?,13*)
   15. Downy Woodpecker - 12 (5m,1f,4?,2*)
   16. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1m,1?,1*)
   17. Northern Flicker - 7 (1m,1?,5*)
   18. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*)
   19. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f - "Gatewood" at the Ohio Turnpike bridge)
   20. Eastern Phoebe - 2
   21. Blue Jay - 38
   22. American Crow - 61
   23. Black-capped Chickadee - 23
   24. Tufted Titmouse - 10
   25. White-breasted Nuthatch - 15 (4m,3f,2?,6*)
   26. Carolina Wren - 13
   27. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1f,1*)
   28. Eastern Bluebird - 24 (2m,3f,19?)
   29. American Robin - 49
   30. Gray Catbird - 2
   31. European Starling - 568
   32. Cedar Waxwing - 6
   33. House Sparrow - 19
   34. House Finch - 6 (1m,3?,2*)
   35. American Goldfinch - 30
   36. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
   37. Magnolia Warbler - 1 (f)
   38. Palm Warbler - 1
   39. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 28
   40. Eastern Towhee - 3 (1m,1f,1*)
   41. Chipping Sparrow - 4
   42. Field Sparrow - 1
   43. Song Sparrow - 28
   44. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2  *(Tied Census High from 05/2010, 10/2013,
   05/2016 & 10/2016)*
   45. Swamp Sparrow - 14
   46. White-throated Sparrow - 7
   47. White-crowned Sparrow - 2
   48. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (f)
   49. Northern Cardinal - 23 (6m,2f,12*,3 juvenile*)
   50. Red-winged Blackbird - 117 (27m,19f,71?)
   51. Rusty Blackbird - 5 (1m,4f)
   52. Common Grackle - 38

Unidentified Hawk - 1  *(Buteo - flying away from me in bad light)*
Unidentified Passerines - 9

*III. REPTILES*: 5 SPECIES.

   1. Common Snapping Turtle - 4
   2. Red-eared Turtle - 3
   3. Midland Painted Turtle - 48
   4. Northern Brown Snake - 1  *(also 1 dead due to Towpath Trail traffic)*
   5. Eastern Garter Snake - 2  *(First October Record on Census)*


*IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Northern Spring Peeper - 24  (heard only)
   2. Bullfrog - 7

*(also 1 dead American Toad due to Towpath Trail traffic)*

*V. FISHES*: 5 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - 2  *(one in Cuyahoga River & one at Ira Beaver Marsh)*
   2. Creek Chub - 2  *(Stanford Run)*
   3. Northern Hog Sucker - 4  *(Yellow Creek)*
   4. Largemouth Bass - 2  *(one at Ira Beaver Marsh & one in Cuyahoga
   River)*
   5. Bluegill - 6  *(Yellow Creek)*


*VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 3 SPECIES.

   1. Cabbage Butterfly - 8
   2. Clouded Sulphur - 4
   3. Monarch - 3


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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