APRIL 28, 2017 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK.
HIKE: From Merriman Valley to the Towpath Trail north to Hale Farm &
Village Connector Trail to Oak Hill Rd. to Everett Rd. covered bridge to
Furnace Run Loop Trail to Rim Trail into the Oak Hill Area to Plateau Trail
to Oak Hill Trail to Plateau Trail down to Valley Picnic Area along
Riverview Rd.
TIME: 6:40am - 3:15pm TEMP.: 46 ~ 67 ~ 64 COND.: Cool early, turning mostly
sunny and warmer, then clouding up and turning cooler; light south winds.
FT.MI.: 9.10 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 4
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
3. Red Squirrel - 6
4. Common Muskrat - 1
5. Mink - 1
6. White-tailed Deer - 6 (5 doe,1 unknown)
II. BIRDS: 74 SPECIES.
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 37 (3 goslings,3 nests)
2. Wood Duck - 9 (6m,3f)
3. Mallard - 5 (4m,1f)
4. Mourning Dove - 10
5. Chimney Swift - 11
6. Virginia Rail - 1 (calling at the Ira Beaver Marsh)
7. Sora - 1 (calling at the Ira Beaver Marsh)
8. Spotted Sandpiper - 4
9. Solitary Sandpiper - 1
10. Great Blue Heron - 16
11. Green Heron - 1 (at Meadowedge Pond at Oak Hill)
12. Turkey Vulture - 12
13. Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
14. Broad-winged Hawk - 2
15. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (1 immature)
16. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (?)
17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (1?,13*)
18. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (3m,3f,2?,1* - 1 nest)
19. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (*)
20. Northern Flicker - 8 (1m,1?,6*)
21. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (1m,1?,3*)
22. American Kestrel - 1 (f) (soaring over the Akron Compost Facility)
23. Eastern Phoebe - 4
24. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 (west of the Everett covered bridge)
25. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 (north of the Ira Beaver Marsh boardwalk)
26. Blue-headed Vireo - 1 (along Furnace Run Loop Trail)
27. Warbling Vireo - 10
28. Blue Jay - 25
29. American Crow - 16
30. Tree Swallow - 9
31. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 16
32. Barn Swallow - 3
33. Black-capped Chickadee - 22 (1 nest)
34. Tufted Titmouse - 35
35. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (1m,9*)
36. House Wren - 8
37. Winter Wren - 1 (singing down in a ravine along Plateau Trail at
Oak Hill)
38. Carolina Wren - 5
39. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 11 (3m,3?,5*)
40. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 (3m,1f)
41. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (2m,1f)
42. Veery - 1 (along Rim Trail at Oak Hill)
43. Wood Thrush - 6
44. American Robin - 56 (1 nest)
45. Gray Catbird - 7
46. Brown Thrasher - 1 (singing along Hale Farm & Village horse pasture
at Ira Rd.)
47. European Starling - 11
48. House Sparrow - 6
49. House Finch - 14 (12m,1f,1?)
50. American Goldfinch - 38 (24m,3f,9?,2*)
51. Ovenbird - 1 (calling along Oak Hill Trail)
52. Blue-winged Warbler - 3 (m) (all along Oak Hill Trail)
53. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 (probing hawthorn tree flowers along Oak
Hill Trail - this tree had the orange-crowned, 1 Blue-winged Warbler, a
female Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 1 Black-capped Chickadee, and 2 Tufted
Titmouse probing the flower heads and all eating small green caterpillars
from the flowers and leaves)
54. Common Yellowthroat - 2 (m)
55. Northern Parula - 1 (m) (along Riverview Rd. near Lock 24)
56. Yellow Warbler - 24 (23m,1f)
57. Palm Warbler - 2
58. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 9 (3m,5f,1?)
59. Yellow-throated Warbler - 3 (m)
60. Eastern Towhee - 8 (5m,1f,2*)
61. Chipping Sparrow - 15
62. Field Sparrow - 2
63. Song Sparrow - 38
64. Swamp Sparrow - 8
65. White-throated Sparrow - 16
66. Scarlet Tanager - 1 (m) (along Rim Trail at Oak Hill)
67. Northern Cardinal - 40 (30m,6f,4*)
68. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (f)
69. Red-winged Blackbird - 66 (57m,9f)
70. Rusty Blackbird - 2 (m)
71. Common Grackle - 26
72. Brown-headed Cowbird - 13 (11m,2f)
73. Orchard Oriole - 5 (4m,1 immature m)
74. Baltimore Oriole - 6 (m)
III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.
1. Red-eared Turtle - 5
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 61
3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 2
4. Northern Water Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (heard only)
2. Gray Treefrog - 4 (heard only)
3. Bullfrog - 2
4. Green Frog - 5
V. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 5
2. Red Admiral - 1
3. Wild Indigo Dusky Wing - 1
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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