MAY 05, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:10am-4:00pm TEMP.: 58-80-77                                                                                             COND.: Cloudy early, then mostly cloudy until 10:30am, turning mostly sunny until 12:20pm; back to mostly cloudy until 1:15pm; then mostly sunny. 
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), John Henry, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
1. Raccoon - 2
2. Eastern Chipmunk - 34
3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2
4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
5. Red Squirrel - 9
6. Muskrat - 1
7. White-tailed Deer - 7 (4 doe,3 yearlings)
II. BIRDS: 86 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 31 (2 nests - one on the A.W.P.C.S. bridge abutment)
2. Wood Duck - 3 (2m,1f)
3. Mallard - 10 (9m,1f)
4. Double-crested Cormorant - 2
5. Great Blue Heron - 34
6. Green Heron - 1
7. Turkey Vulture - 12
8. Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult following 1 immature)
9. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m)
10. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 (male & female courting)
11. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 (1 immature)
12. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (male - Ohio Turnpike bridge)
13. Virginia Rail - 2 (Ira Beaver Marsh)
14. Killdeer - 6
15. Spotted Sandpiper - 3
16. Solitary Sandpiper - 2
17. Mourning Dove - 16
18. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray "phase" in last year's Pileated nest-hole near Peninsula trestle)
19. Chimney Swift - 14
20. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?)
21. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*)
22. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (Stanford Swamp)
23. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 (1m,1?,10*)
24. Downy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,2f,1*)
25. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (2m,1f,1*)
26. Northern Flicker - 4 (1?,3*)
27. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*)
28. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
29. Least Flycatcher - 1
30. Eastern Phoebe - 7 (1 nest)
31. Great Crested Flycatcher - 7
32. Eastern Kingbird - 4
33. White-eyed Vireo - 1
34. Yellow-throated Vireo - 3
35. Warbling Vireo - 21
36. Red-eyed Vireo - 9
37. Blue Jay - 18 (1 pair building nest)
38. American Crow - 7
39. Tree Swallow - 14
40. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 10
41. Bank Swallow - 1
42. Barn Swallow - 5
43. Black-capped Chickadee - 17 (1 nest, 1 pair excavating nest-hole)
44. Tufted Titmouse - 14
45. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 (2m,1f,3* - 1 nest in a Black Cherry knot-hole)
46. Carolina Wren - 3
47. House Wren - 2
48. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 15 (2m,1f,5?,7*)
49. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m)
50. American Robin - 31
51. Gray Catbird - 17
52. European Starling - 13
53. Cedar Waxwing - 3
54. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m)
55. Tennessee Warbler - 2 (m)
56. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m)
57. Northern Parula - 1 (m)
58. Yellow Warbler - 31 (25m,3f,3? - one female gathering nest material)
59. Magnolia Warbler - 1 (m)
60. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 9 (4m,2f,3*)
61. Yellow-throated Warbler - 5 (m)
62. Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m)
63. Cerulean Warbler - 5 (m)
64. American Redstart - 6 (3m,1 juv. m,2*)
65. Northern Waterthrush - 5
66. Common Yellowthroat - 26 (m)
67. Hooded Warbler - 6 (m)
68. Scarlet Tanager - 7 (m)
69. Eastern Towhee - 4 (m)
70. Chipping Sparrow - 9
71. Field Sparrow - 5
72. Song Sparrow - 40
73. Swamp Sparrow - 9
74. White-throated Sparrow - 2
75. White-crowned Sparrow - 5
76. Northern Cardinal - 34 (26m,5f,3*)
77. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 18 (10m,7f,1*)
78. Indigo Bunting - 7 (m)
79. Red-winged Blackbird - 37 (24m,13f)
80. Common Grackle - 16
81. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (7m,1f)
82. Orchard Oriole - 6 (5m,1 immature m)
83. Baltimore Oriole - 22 (19m,3f)
84. House Finch - 6 (1m,1?,4* - 1 nest)
85. American Goldfinch - 21 (14m,2f,2?,3*)
86. House Sparrow - 19
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 6
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 9
3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 12
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Gray Treefrog - 7 (calling)
2. Bullfrog - 8
3. Green Frog - 11
V. FISHES: 7 SPECIES. 
1. Common Carp - 3
2. Golden Shiner - about 20
3. Creek Chub - about 15
4. Rock Bass - 4
5. Largemouth Bass - 4
6. Bluegill - 3
7. Pumpkinseed - 7
V. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 4
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 5
3. Clouded Sulphur - 3
4. Pearl Crescent - 2
5. Gray Comma - 3
6. Red Admiral - 11

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.


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