MAY 15, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Spring Census.
AREAS: Major Rd. from Riverview Rd. to Rt. 303, Coliseum Grasslands, Horseshoe Pond area and Tree Farm Trail. TIME: 7:15am-12:30pm TEMP.: 48-71 COND.: Cool early, sunny, blue skies, west winds, light and variable. FT.MI.: 4.0
OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 4
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
3. Red Squirrel - 4
4. White-tailed Deer - 1 (*)
II. BIRDS: 86 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen)
1. Canada Goose - 6
2. Wood Duck - 1 (*)
3. Mallard - 1 (m)
4. Wild Turkey - 1 (m - gobbling)
5. Great Blue Heron - 4
6. Turkey Vulture - 11
7. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
9. Red-tailed Hawk - 1
10. Killdeer - 1
11. Mourning Dove - 3
12. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1
13. Barred Owl - 2 (*)
14. Chimney Swift - 3
15. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?)
16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (1f,1?)
17. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*)
18. Northern Flicker - 2 (?)
19. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
20. Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 (Tree Farm Trail)
21. Willow Flycatcher - 2
22. Eastern Phoebe - 3
23. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
24. Eastern Kingbird - 2
25. Warbling Vireo - 1
26. Red-eyed Vireo - 4
27. Blue Jay - 8
28. American Crow - 7
29. Tree Swallow - 1
30. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
31. Barn Swallow - 5
32. Black-capped Chickadee - 16
33. Tufted Titmouse - 2
34. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (m)
35. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (f)
36. House Wren - 11
37. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1*)
38. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (1m,1f)
39. Veery - 1
40. Swainson's Thrush - 1
41. Wood Thrush - 2
42. American Robin - 8
43. Gray Catbird - 15
44. Brown Thrasher - 2
45. European Starling - 5
46. Cedar Waxwing - 7
47. Blue-winged Warbler - 9 (m)
48. Tennessee Warbler - 4 (m)
49. Nashville Warbler - 2 (1m,1f)
50. Yellow Warbler - 3 (m)
51. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (m)
52. Magnolia Warbler - 4 (m)
53. Cape May Warbler - 1 (m)
54. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7 (3m,4f)
55. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (1m,1f)
56. Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m)
57. Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 (m)
58. Blackpoll Warbler - 4 (m)
59. Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (m)
60. American Redstart - 3 (1m,1juv. m,1f)
61. Ovenbird - 2
62. Mourning Warbler - 2 (m)
63. Common Yellowthroat - 12 (11m,1f)
64. Hooded Warbler - 3 (m)
65. Canada Warbler - 2 (m)
66. Scarlet Tanager - 4 (3m,1f)
67. Eastern Towhee - 7 (m)
68. Chipping Sparrow - 10
69. Field Sparrow - 3
70. Savannah Sparrow - 2
71. Henslow's Sparrow - 4
72. Song Sparrow - 15
73. White-throated Sparrow - 2
74. Northern Cardinal - 14 (10m,3f,1*)
75. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (3m,1f)
76. Indigo Bunting - 7 (m)
77. Bobolink - 10 (7m,3f)
78. Red-winged Blackbird - 9 (7m,2f)
79. Eastern Meadowlark - 3
80. Common Grackle - 7
81. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (1m,1f)
82. Baltimore Oriole - 1 (m)
83. House Finch - 2 (*)
84. Pine Siskin - 1 (Tree Farm Trail)
85. American Goldfinch - 14 (5m,5f,4*)
86. House Sparrow - 4
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (*)
2. Gray Treefrog - 1 (*)
3. Green Frog - 1 (*)
V. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1
2. Clouded Sulphur - 1
3. Spring Azure - 2
4. Question Mark - 1
5. Red Admiral - 9
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.




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