JUNE 04, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley - with stops at both Trail Mix in Peninsula & Szalay's Farm Market on Bolanz Rd.TIME: 5:30am~2:35pm TEMP.: 53~73 COND.: Cloudy all day with very light sprinkles from 8:35am~8:40am; very light sprinkles again at 1:10pm turning to steady sprinkles from 1:30pm~2:00pm. TRAIL COND.: Excellent. RIVER COND.: Very low & clear due to lack of rain.FT.MI.: 13.63 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES, 111 TOTAL MAMMALS.
- Mink - 1
- Eastern Chipmunk - 73
- Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
- Red Squirrel - 25
- Muskrat - 2
- Eastern Cottontail - 3
- White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 79 SPECIES, 1,120 TOTAL BIRDS.(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
- Canada Goose - 52 (19 young)
- Wood Duck - 24 (5m,8f,1?,1*,9 ducklings)
- Mallard - 12 (8m,4f)
- Great Blue Heron - 15
- Green Heron - 2
- Turkey Vulture - 14
- Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 juvenile)
- Killdeer - 8
- Spotted Sandpiper - 7
- Herring Gull - 1
- Rock Pigeon - 4
- Mourning Dove - 13
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 9 (New Census High - previous was 4 on 06/02/2012 & 09/08/2012)
- Chimney Swift - 6
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (? - divebombing juvenile Red-tailed Hawk)
- Belted Kingfisher - 6 (3m,1f,2?)
- Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 (1 nest at Stanford Swamp)
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13 (1f,12*)
- Downy Woodpecker - 6 (2?,2*,2 juvenile - 1 nest in a dead buckeye tree limb)
- Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*)
- Northern Flicker - 7 (1m,3f,1?,2*)
- Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1?,2*)
- American Kestrel - 1 (m - at the Akron Water Pollution Control Station - First Record on June Census)
- Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f - "Rocky" & "Gatewood" at the Ohio Turnpike bridge)
- Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13
- Acadian Flycatcher - 7
- Willow Flycatcher - 2
- Eastern Phoebe - 4
- Great Crested Flycatcher - 9 (1 nest in a sycamore snag above "Deep Lock" - Lock 28)
- Eastern Kingbird - 6
- White-eyed Vireo - 1
- Yellow-throated Vireo - 9
- Warbling Vireo - 27
- Red-eyed Vireo - 28 (New Census High - previous was 25 on 06/04/2011)
- Blue Jay - 23 (1 juvenile)
- American Crow - 5
- Tree Swallow - 11 (1 nest in a black willow snag)
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 14
- Bank Swallow - 1
- Barn Swallow - 5
- Black-capped Chickadee - 16
- Tufted Titmouse - 21
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (1m,2*)
- House Wren - 4
- Carolina Wren - 8
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 14 (2m,1f,4?,7* - 2 nests: 1 in an ash tree and 1 in a sycamore tree)
- Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*)
- Veery - 5
- Wood Thrush - 5 (New Census High - previous was 4 on 06/01/2013 & 07/05/2013)
- American Robin - 49 (1 juvenile - 1 nest in an elm tree)
- Gray Catbird - 28 (1 nest in a multiflora rose bush)
- European Starling - 39
- Cedar Waxwing - 26 (8 nests: 6 in sycamore tree, 1 in black walnut tree & 1 in autumn-olive bush)
- Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 (singing north of "Deep Lock" - Lock 28)
- Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (m)
- Common Yellowthroat - 23 (m)
- Hooded Warbler - 5 (m)
- American Redstart - 13 (m)
- Cerulean Warbler - 2 (m)
- Yellow Warbler - 43 (39m,2f,2?)
- Yellow-throated Warbler - 3 (m)
- Eastern Towhee - 6 (m)
- Chipping Sparrow - 1
- Field Sparrow - 3
- Song Sparrow - 61
- Swamp Sparrow - 14
- Scarlet Tanager - 3 (m)
- Northern Cardinal - 56 (44m,6f,6*)
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 13 (12m,1f)
- Indigo Bunting - 23 (22m,1f)
- Red-winged Blackbird - 82 (64m,18f)
- Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (Tied Census High from 04/02/2010 - in field between I-271 & Ohio Turnpike bridges - First June Record on Census)
- Common Grackle - 46 (2 juvenile)
- Brown-headed Cowbird - 24 (20m,2f,2?)\
- Orchard Oriole - 8 (7m,1 immature m - New Census High - previous was 7 on four different occasions)
- Baltimore Oriole - 14 (13m,1f)
- House Finch - 5 (2m,3*)
- American Goldfinch - 30 (9m,5f,14?,2*)
- House Sparrow - 31
- Unidentified Passerines - 8
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.
- Common Snapping Turtle - 3
- Midland Painted Turtle - 18
- Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
- Gray Treefrog - 3 (heard only)
- Bullfrog - 5
- Green Frog - 23
V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES.
- Common Carp - 2
- Creek Chub - 4
- Bluegill - 4
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES.
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2
- Cabbage Butterfly - 1
- Little Wood Satyr - 3
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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