APRIL 29, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
HIKE: Buckeye Trail from Boston Trailhead to Pine Lane Trailhead , then Valley Bridle Trail from Pine Lane Trailhead to Wetmore Trailhead.
TIME: 7:50am-12:30pm TEMP.: 32-58 COND.: Brisk early, warming throughout, turning sunny & pleasant.
FT.MI.: 8.25 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & MIchelle Zager.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 12
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black phase)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
4. Red Squirrel - 2
5. White-tailed Deer - 12 (8 buck, 4 doe)
II. BIRDS: 64 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 13 (4 goslings)
2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f)
3. Mallard - 2 (1m,1f)
4. Great Blue Heron - 1
5. Turkey Vulture - 4
6. Bald Eagle - 2 (adults - male chasing female)
7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature male)
8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 (1 immature)
9. Broad-winged Hawk - 1
10. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
11. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (male - at Ohio Turnpike bridge)
12. Herring Gull - 1
13. Rock Pigeon - 1
14. Mourning Dove - 5
15. Chimney Swift - 5
16. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*)
17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (along VBT across from Akron-Peninsula Rd. & Truxell Rd. intersection)
18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (*)
19. Downy Woodpecker - 7 (1m,2f,1?,3*)
20. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*)
21. Northern Flicker - 2 (*)
22. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (?)
23. Eastern Phoebe - 1 (1 nest)
24. Warbling Vireo - 3
25. Blue Jay - 9
26. American Crow - 4
27. Tree Swallow - 4
28. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
29. Bank Swallow - 1
30. Barn Swallow - 1
31. Black-capped Chickadee - 7
32. Tufted Titmouse - 11
33. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (2m,3*)
34. Brown Creeper - 2
35. Carolina Wren - 1
36. House Wren - 3
37. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (*)
38. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 (1m,4*)
39. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (?)
40. Hermit Thrush - 3
41 . Wood Thrush - 1
42. American Robin - 18
43. European Starling - 9
44. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m)
45. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m)
46. Yellow Warbler - 3 (m)
47. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (m)
48. Pine Warbler - 2 (at Pine Lane Trailhead)
49. Ovenbird - 1
50. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (m)
51. Eastern Towhee - 4 (2m,2*)
52. Chipping Sparrow - 12
53. Field Sparrow - 9
54. Song Sparrow - 24
55. Swamp Sparrow - 1
56. White-throated Sparrow - 5
57. Northern Cardinal - 16 (10m,4f,2*)
58. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (m)
59. Red-winged Blackbird - 12 (8m,3f,1*)
60. Common Grackle - 6
61. Brown-headed Cowbird - 11 (9m,1f,1*)
62. House Finch - 3 (*)
63. American Goldfinch - 18 (7m,1f,4?,6*)
64. House Sparrow - 2
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 5
2. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 7
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (*)
V. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1
2. Clouded Sulphur - 1
3. Pearl Crescent - 1
4. Gray Comma - 1
5. Red Admiral - 6

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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