JULY 02, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County
Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Rd.
TIME: 6:15am-1:15am TEMP.: 64-86 COND.: Light rain/sprinkles until 7:15am; cloudy & overcast, turning partly sunny, then clouding back up at 11:40 & slightly breezy, turning warm. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 40
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
3. Red Squirrel - 4
4. White-tailed Deer - 9 (2 buck,6 doe,1 fawn)
II. BIRDS: 74 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 1
2. Wood Duck - 13 (2f,11 ducklings)
3. Mallard - 3 (2m,1f)
4. Great Blue Heron - 11 (1 juvenile eating a duckling)
5. Turkey Vulture - 6
6. Osprey - 1
7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 (1 adult with 2 juveniles)
8. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (juvenile)
9. Rock Pigeon - 4
10. Mourning Dove - 11
11. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
12. Chimney Swift - 6
13. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (*)
14. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,2*)
15. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (4m,1f,1?,2*,2 juvenile)
17. Downy Woodpecker - 8 (1f,6*,1 juvenile *)
18. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,2*,1 juvenile)
19. Northern Flicker - 6 (1?,5*)
20. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
21. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 9
22. Acadian Flycatcher - 4
23. Willow Flycatcher - 2
24. Eastern Phoebe - 3
25. Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
26. Eastern Kingbird - 3
27. Yellow-throated Vireo - 4
28. Warbling Vireo - 17
29. Red-eyed Vireo - 14
30. Blue Jay - 25 (6 juvenile)
31. American Crow - 9
32. Tree Swallow - 8 (1 juvenile)
33. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 9
34. Barn Swallow - 5 (1 nest)
35. Black-capped Chickadee - 28 (9 juvenile)
36. Tufted Titmouse - 27 (6 juvenile)
37. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (1?,4*)
38. Carolina Wren - 1
39. House Wren - 2
40. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 11 (6?,4*,1 juvenile)
41. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (juvenile)
42. Veery - 3
43. Wood Thrush - 1
44. American Robin - 75 (3 juvenile)
45. Gray Catbird - 38
46. European Starling - 126
47. Cedar Waxwing - 11 (1 nest)
48. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m)
49. Northern Parula - 1 (m)
50. Yellow Warbler - 12 (9m,1f,1?,1*)
51. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (m)
52. Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (m)
53. Cerulean Warbler - 1 (m)
54. American Redstart - 3 (m)
55. Ovenbird - 1
56. Louisiana Waterthrush - 2
57. Common Yellowthroat - 37 (35m,1*,1 juvenile)
58. Hooded Warbler - 6 (m)
59. Scarlet Tanager - 8 (m)
60. Eastern Towhee - 3 (m)
61. Chipping Sparrow - 7
62. Song Sparrow - 66 (1 juvenile)
63. Swamp Sparrow - 17
64. Northern Cardinal - 55 (36m,7f,7*,5 juvenile *)
65. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (1m,1f,1*)
66. Indigo Bunting - 23 (22m,1f)
67. Red-winged Blackbird - 54 (39m,15f)
68. Common Grackle - 21
69. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 (7m,3f,2 juvenile - 1 juv. being fed by C. Yellowthroat)
70. Orchard Oriole - 1 (m)
71. Baltimore Oriole - 6 (3m,1*,2 juvenile)
72. House Finch - 1 (*)
73. American Goldfinch - 20 (8m,1f,11*)
74. House Sparrow - 32
III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 7
2. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 4
3. Northern Water Snake - 1
4. Eastern Garter Snake - 2
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES.
1. American Toad - 1
2. Gray Treefrog - 4
3. Bullfrog - 4
4. Green Frog - many
V. FISHES; 1 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 2
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 18
3. Great Spangled Fritillary - 2
4. Pearl Crescent - 1
5. Mourning Cloak - 1
6. Little Wood Satyr - 1
7. Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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