JUNE 04, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:05am-1:45pm TEMP.: 54-89
COND.: Sunny early then clouds/sun mix until noon; then sunny, breezy & hot.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
1. Shorttail Shrew - 2
2. Woodchuck - 1
3. Eastern Chipmunk - 84
4. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 (black phase)
5. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
6. Red Squirrel - 8
7. White-tailed Deer - 5 (1 buck,4 doe)
II. BIRDS: 72 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 359
2. Wood Duck - 4 (1*,3 ducklings)
3. Mallard - 6 (3m,3f)
4. Great Blue Heron - 15
5. Green Heron - 2
6. Turkey Vulture - 28
7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f)
8. Broad-winged Hawk - 1
9. Red-tailed Hawk - 6
10. Peregrine Falcon - 6 (1m,1f,4 young - the Ohio Turnpike bridge family)
11. Killdeer - 4
12. Spotted Sandpiper - 2
13. Ring-billed Gull - 4
14. Mourning Dove - 12
15. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
16. Chimney Swift - 13
17. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 (1f,2*)
18. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2?,1*)
19. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (1f,2?,11*)
20. Downy Woodpecker - 12 (2m,1f,2 juvenile,7*)
21. Northern Flicker - 5 (2?,3*,1 nest)
22. Pileated Woodpecker - 7 (1m,4*,1 nest with 2 juv. males sticking out of cavity)
23. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13
24. Acadian Flycatcher - 6
25. Willow Flycatcher - 6
26. Eastern Phoebe - 4
27. Great Crested Flycatcher - 8
28. Eastern Kingbird - 3
29. Yellow-throated Vireo - 10
30. Warbling Vireo - 30
31. Red-eyed Vireo - 25
32. Blue Jay - 12
33. American Crow - 7
34. Tree Swallow - 7
35. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8
36. Bank Swallow - 4
37. Barn Swallow - 6
38. Black-capped Chickadee - 11
39. Tufted Titmouse - 11
40. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (3m,7*)
41. Carolina Wren - 2
42. House Wren - 2
43. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8 (1f,2?,5*)
44. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (1f,2*)
45. Veery - 5
46. American Robin - 62 (7 juvenile)
47. Gray Catbird - 23
48. European Starling - 21
49. Cedar Waxwing - 36
50. Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (m)
51. Yellow Warbler - 41 (39m,1f,1?)
52. Yellow-throated Warbler - 8 (m)
53. Cerulean Warbler - 3 (m)
54. American Redstart - 9 (m)
55. Prothonotary Warbler - 2 (m)
56. Common Yellowthroat - 29 (27m,2*)
57. Hooded Warbler - 12 (m)
58. Scarlet Tanager - 5 (4m,1*)
59. Chipping Sparrow - 10
60. Song Sparrow - 65
61. Swamp Sparrow - 12
62. Northern Cardinal - 52 (27m,7f,13*,5 juv. *)
63. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 12 (8m,3f,1* - 1 female building nest)
64. Indigo Bunting - 20 (19m,1f)
65. Red-winged Blackbird - 56 (39m,17f)
66. Common Grackle - 41
67. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16 (14m,2f)
68. Orchard Oriole - 7 (m)
69. Baltimore Oriole - 19 (15m,3f,1* - 1 nest)
70. House Finch - 2 (1m,1f)
71. American Goldfinch - 19 (9m,4?,6*)
72. House Sparrow - 31
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 4
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 13
3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 7
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog - 2
2. Green Frog - 26
V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 3
2. Creek Chub - about 30
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 11
2. Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
3. Cabbage Butterfly - 2
4. Summer Azure - 1
5. Pearl Crescent - 1
6. Question Mark - 1
7. Little Wood Satyr - 10
8. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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