AUGUST 29, 2010 - Metro Parks, Serving Summit County - Sand Run to Towpath.
HIKE: Valley Link Trail in Sand Run thru the Parcours Trail, Valley Link Trail to the Towpath Trail south to the Cuyahoga River/Little Cuyahoga River junction and back.
TIME: 9:00am-11:20am TEMP.: 61-84 COND.: Sunny, blue skies, warm.
FT.MI.: 4.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Woodchuck - 1
2. Eastern Chipmunk - 19
3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5
4. White-tailed Deer - 3 (1 doe,2 fawn with spots almost gone)
II. BIRDS: 28 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 12
2. Green Heron - 1 (juvenile)
3. Mourning Dove - 7
4. Chimney Swift - 3
5. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 (1f,3*)
6. Downy Woodpecker - 6 (1f,5*)
7. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (*)
8. Northern Flicker - 1 (*)
9. Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 (south of Valley View G.C. above sewer line)
10. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3
11. Acadian Flycatcher - 1
12. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
13. Red-eyed Vireo - 2
14. Blue Jay - 10
15. Black-capped Chickadee - 11
16. Tufted Titmouse - 7
17. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (*)
18. Carolina Wren - 1
19. American Robin - 11 (3 juvenile)
20. Gray Catbird - 10
21. European Starling - 2
22. Cedar Waxwing - 2
23. Hooded Warbler - 2 (m)
24. Song Sparrow - 1
25. Northern Cardinal - 14 (4m,7f,1juvf,1*juv.,1*)
26. Common Grackle - 18
27. American Goldfinch - 5 (3m,2*)
28. House Sparrow - 1
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 3
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (*)
2. Bullfrog - 3
3. Green Frog - 1
V. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 7
2. Clouded Sulphur - 1
3. Summer Azure - 1
4. Red Admiral - 1
5. Red-spotted Purple - 1
6. Monarch - 1
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.




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