SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY TOWPATH TRAIL.HIKE: Merriman Valley north to Ira Beaver Marsh. TIME: 6:55am-10:20am TEMP.: 55~64COND.: Cool early, turning sunny with blue skies. FT.MI.: 4.50 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
- Eastern Chipmunk - 19
- Red Squirrel - 13
- Eastern Cottontail - 2
II. BIRDS: 50 SPECIES.(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
- Canada Goose - 9
- Wood Duck - 7 (2m,5f)
- Mallard - 2 (1m,1?)
- Great Blue Heron - 2
- Green Heron - 1 (immature)
- Virginia Rail - 1 (photo below)
- Mourning Dove - 1
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (actively hunting at Lock 25)
- Chimney Swift - 12
- Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*)
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,1?,3*)
- Downy Woodpecker - 10 (1m,3f,2?,4*)
- Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (1?5*)
- Northern Flicker - 7 (1m,1f,5*)
- Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*)
- American Kestrel - 1 (male at the A.W.P.C.S. that caught a Chimney Swift in midair)
- Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
- Eastern Phoebe - 3
- Yellow-throated Vireo - 3
- Warbling Vireo - 1
- Blue Jay - 26
- American Crow - 13
- Black-capped Chickadee - 14
- Tufted Titmouse - 6
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (1m,1f,6*)
- House Wren - 2
- Carolina Wren - 4
- Eastern Bluebird - 2 (*)
- American Robin - 41
- Gray Catbird - 22
- European Starling - 60
- Cedar Waxwing - 83
- Northern Waterthrush - 1 (on a sandbar along the Cuyahoga River)
- Common Yellowthroat - 4 (3m,1f)
- Hooded Warbler - 2 (m)
- Northern Parula - 1 (m)
- Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 (m)
- Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (f)
- Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m)
- Unidentified Warbler Fly-overs - 3
- Eastern Towhee - 1 (m)
- Song Sparrow - 8
- Swamp Sparrow - 1
- Northern Cardinal - 17 (4m,5f,8*)
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (1m,2*)
- Indigo Bunting - 1 (*)
- Red-winged Blackbird - 8 (4m,4f)
- Common Grackle - 20
- House Finch - 5 (1m,4*)
- American Goldfinch - 11 (3m,3f,5*)
- House Sparrow - 23
- Unidentified Passerines - 13
III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
- Northern Spring Peeper - 4 (heard only)
IV. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
- Pumpkinseed - 8
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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