JUNE 02, 2017 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.
ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead to Merriman Valley, including Trail Mix in
Peninsula and Szalay's Farm Market.
TIME: 6:00am - 3:00pm  TEMP.: 49 ~ 77  COND.: Cool and foggy early, giving
way to sunny, blue skies, and pleasant; light south winds.
TRAIL COND.: Good.  RIVER COND.: High, swift, and muddy - little or no
exposed rock and sandbars.
FT.MI.: 13.63  OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 1
   2. Eastern Chipmunk - 38
   3. Woodchuck - 1
   4. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1
   5. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
   6. Red Squirrel - 15
   7. White-tailed Deer - 10 (2 bucks,7 does,1 heard snorting)


II. BIRDS: 74 SPECIES, 1,014 INDIVIDUALS.
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not seen)

   1. Canada Goose - 76 (4 goslings)
   2. Wood Duck - 16 (2m,4f,10 ducklings)
   3. Mallard - 2 (1m,1f)
   4. Common Merganser - 2 (1f,1 duckling - seen from Towpath Trail bridge
   at Furnace Run; duckling was only days old - First June Record on Census)
   5. Wild Turkey - 8 (1 hen,7 poults - seen in Szalay's corn field north
   of Bolanz Rd.; poults not much bigger than a baseball - First June Record
   on Census)
   6. Rock Pigeon - 2
   7. Mourning Dove - 14
   8. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4
   9. Chimney Swift - 13
   10. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (m)
   11. Great Blue Heron - 24
   12. Green Heron - 2
   13. Turkey Vulture - 13
   14. Broad-winged Hawk - 1
   15. Red-tailed Hawk - 6
   16. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*)
   17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
   18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 (1m,2f,1?,7*)
   19. Downy Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,4*)
   20. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (f)
   21. Northern Flicker - 8 (1m,1f,1?,5*)
   22. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1f,2*)
   23. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - "Trailblazer")
   24. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 10
   25. Acadian Flycatcher - 9
   26. Willow Flycatcher - 5
   27. Eastern Phoebe - 3
   28. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6
   29. Eastern Kingbird - 6
   30. Yellow-throated Vireo - 8
   31. Warbling Vireo - 22 (1 nest in a sycamore tree)
   32. Red-eyed Vireo - 26
   33. Blue Jay - 11
   34. American Crow - 7
   35. Tree Swallow - 9
   36. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 10
   37. Bank Swallow - 2
   38. Barn Swallow - 3
   39. Black-capped Chickadee - 12
   40. Tufted Titmouse - 24
   41. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (4m,6*)
   42. House Wren - 2
   43. Carolina Wren - 6
   44. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 9 (1m,4?,4*)
   45. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (*)
   46. Veery - 6 (Tied Census High from 06/2010)
   47. Wood Thrush - 1
   48. American Robin - 43 (2 juveniles,2 nests - both in buckeye trees)
   49. Gray Catbird - 25
   50. European Starling - 38
   51. Cedar Waxwing - 23 (2 nests under construction in red oak and
   sycamore)
   52. House Sparrow - 14
   53. House Finch - 9 (6m,1f,2*)
   54. American Goldfinch - 17 (9m,5f,3*)
   55. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 (at Lock 28 or "Deep Lock")
   56. Common Yellowthroat - 31 (29m,2*)
   57. Hooded Warbler - 7 (6m,1*)
   58. American Redstart - 10 (9m,1 immature m)
   59. Northern Parula - 2 (m)
   60. Yellow Warbler - 37 (31m,2f,2?,2*)
   61. Yellow-throated Warbler - 5 (m)
   62. Eastern Towhee - 2 (m)
   63. Chipping Sparrow - 4
   64. Song Sparrow - 61
   65. Swamp Sparrow - 21 (New Census High - previous was 18 on 07/2015 &
   07/2016)
   66. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (1m,1f - male fed the female a caterpillar)
   67. Northern Cardinal - 37 (25m,3f,4*,2 juveniles,3 juveniles*)
   68. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 12 (m)
   69. Indigo Bunting - 19 (18m,1f)
   70. Red-winged Blackbird - 67 (47m,15f,5 juveniles)
   71. Common Grackle - 35
   72. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 (8m,3f,1 juvenile being fed by a male
   Northern Cardinal)
   73. Orchard Oriole - 7 (5m,2 immature m)
   74. Baltimore Oriole - 23 (22m,1f - 1 nest under construction in a
   sycamore tree)

??. Unidentified Hawks - 2 (together - very distant)
??. Unidentified Passerines - 22

III. REPTILES: 6 SPECIES, 1 NEW TO CENSUS.

   1. Common Snapping Turtle - 15
   2. Stinkpot - 1  (New Reptile Species on Census - now at 8 Species since
   January 2010)
   3. Red-eared Turtle - 3
   4. Midland Painted Turtle - 50
   5. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 7
   6. Northern Water Snake - 1


IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Bullfrog - 5 (1 seen,4 heard)
   2. Green Frog - 42 (4 seen,38 heard)


V. FISHES: 6 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - 1
   2. Creek Chub - 9
   3. Common Shiner - 10  (First June Record on Census)
   4. Largemouth Bass - 2  (First June Record on Census)
   5. Bluegill - 15
   6. Pumpkinseed - 1


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 5 (females)
   2. Cabbage Butterfly - 8
   3. Spring Azure - 3
   4. Pearl Crescent - 1
   5. Little Wood Satyr - 3
   6. Monarch - 1
   7. Zabulon Skipper - 5


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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