AUGUST 06, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Towpath Trail.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:40am-12:10pm TEMP.: 72-92-90
COND.: Sunny, hot & humid. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 17
2. Red Squirrel - 1
3. Eastern Cottontail - 1
4. White-tailed Deer - 4 (3 doe,1 fawn)
II. BIRDS: 52 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 2
>. Greylag Goose - 1
2. Wood Duck - 11 (3m,3 juv. m,3f,2 juv. f)
3. Great Blue Heron - 7 (2 immature)
4. Green Heron - 1 (immature)
5. Turkey Vulture - 1
6. Red-tailed Hawk - 1
7. Peregrine Falcon - 1
8. Spotted Sandpiper - 1
9. Rock Pigeon - 28
10. Mourning Dove - 13
11. Chimney Swift - 6
12. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,1?,2*)
13. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 (*)
14. Downy Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*)
15. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*)
16. Northern Flicker - 2 (*)
17. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (*)
18. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3
19. Acadian Flycatcher - 3
20. Willow Flycatcher - 2
21. Eastern Kingbird - 2
22. Warbling Vireo - 2
23. Red-eyed Vireo - 4
24. Blue Jay - 16
25. American Crow - 11
26. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3
27. Bank Swallow - 4
28. Barn Swallow - 9 (2 immature)
29. Black-capped Chickadee - 14
30. Tufted Titmouse - 14
31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (1f,1?,6*)
32. Carolina Wren - 4
33. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*)
34. American Robin - 7
35. Gray Catbird - 10
36. European Starling - 27
37. Cedar Waxwing - 3
38. Yellow-throated Warbler - 4 (m)
39. Common Yellowthroat - 6 (m)
40. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (m)
41. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m)
42. Chipping Sparrow - 1
43. Field Sparrow - 2
44. Song Sparrow - 28
45. Swamp Sparrow - 7
46. Northern Cardinal - 33 (17m,4f,7*,5 imm.*)
47. Indigo Bunting - 7 (m)
48. Red-winged Blackbird - 18 (3m,2f,13?)
49. Common Grackle - 305
50. Baltimore Oriole - 1 (m)
51. American Goldfinch - 29 (14m,4?,11*)
52. House Sparrow - 15
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 24
2. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 2
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Green Frog - 20
V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 1
2. Creek Chub - 6
3. Pumpkinseed - 4
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 9 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 10
2. Spicebush Swallowtail - 2
3. Cabbage Butterfly - 20
4. Clouded Sulphur - 3
5. Pearl Crescent - 4
6. Gray Comma - 1
7. Viceroy - 1
8. Monarch - 3
9. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.  

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