APRIL 26, 2009 - C.V.N.P. Towpath Trail from Merriman/Riverview Rds. north to Bolanz Rd.
TIME: 7:25am-12:00pm TEMP.: 57-84 COND.: Warm early, sunny, blue skies, unseasonably warm throughout the day. FT.MI.: 4.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 25
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 6
3. Red Squirrel - 2
II. BIRDS: 65 SPECIES.
(? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen)
1. Canada Goose - 29 (1 pair with 6 goslings at Marc Moon painting)
2. Wood Duck - 6 (4m,2f)
3. Mallard - 6 (4m,2f)
4. Great Blue Heron - 11
5. Great Egret - 2 (pair heading west over compost facility)
6. Turkey Vulture - 14
7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. m)
8. Broad-winged Hawk - 2 (soaring above compost facility)
9. Red-tailed Hawk - 3
10. Killdeer - 5
11. Spotted Sandpiper - 1
12. Ring-billed Gull - 4
13. Rock Pigeon - 4
14. Mourning Dove - 8
15. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1f,1?,1*)
16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 (1?,4*)
17. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
18. Downy Woodpecker - 11 (2m,2f,7*, 1 excavating hole)
19. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (f)
20. Northern Flicker - 6 (2m,1f,1?,2*, 1 pair mating)
21. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
22. Eastern Phoebe - 4
23. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
24. White-eyed Vireo - 3
25. Warbling Vireo - 8
26. Blue Jay - 18
27. American Crow - 10
28. Tree Swallow - 6 (1 carrying feather to nest hole)
29. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8 (1 carrying nest material to nest)
30. Barn Swallow - 2
31. Black-capped Chickadee - 25 (1 excavating hole in stump)
32. Tufted Titmouse - 13
33. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (2m,1*)
34. House Wren - 1
35. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (m)
36. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 6 (1m,1?,4*)
37. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (1m,1f)
38. Wood Thrush - 1
39. American Robin - 54
40. Gray Catbird - 2
41. Brown Thrasher - 1
42. European Starling - 25
43. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m)
44. Yellow Warbler - 27 (26m,1f)
45. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (m)
46. Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 (2m,1f)
47. Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (m)
48. Prothonotary Warbler - 2 (m - both just north of Ira beaver marsh)
49. Northern Waterthrush - 1
50. Eastern Towhee - 6 (m)
51. Chipping Sparrow - 5
52. Song Sparrow - 29
53. Swamp Sparrow - 4
54. White-throated Sparrow - 2
55. Northern Cardinal - 35 (29m,5f,1*)
56. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (m)
57. Red-winged Blackbird - 37 (30m,7f)
58. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (high fly-over at composting facility)
59. Rusty Blackbird - 2 (*)
60. Common Grackle - 33
61. Brown-headed Cowbird - 21 (16m,5f)
62. Baltimore Oriole - 1 (m)
63. House Finch - 8 (3m,1f,1?,3*)
64. American Goldfinch - 35 (26m,7f,2*)
65. House Sparrow - 10
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 112
2. Northern Water Snake - 2
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES.
1. American Toad - 1 (+ many calling)
2. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (*)
3. Bullfrog - 1
4. Green Frog - 6
V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Golden Shiner - 4
2. Creek Chub - 13
3. Largemouth Bass - 2
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 9
2. Mourning Cloak - 2
Also - 1 Yellow-throated Vireo later in the day at Columbia Rd. & 3 Green Herons flying together around 7:30pm in Merriman Valley.
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio
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