JUNE 02, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 5:30am-2:35pm TEMP.: 51-74 
COND.: Cloudy & gray early turning mostly sunny then partly cloudy; breezy all day, wind from the west, then northwest.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 29
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
3. Red Squirrel - 12
4. Muskrat - 2
5. White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 73 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 45 (1 gosling)
2. Wood Duck - 28 (6f,1*,21 ducklings)
3. Mallard - 4 (2m,2f)
4. Great Blue Heron - 14
5. Turkey Vulture - 12
6. Osprey - 1
7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m)
8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
9. Broad-winged Hawk - 2
10. Red-tailed Hawk - 5
11. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f)
12. Killdeer - 2
13. Spotted Sandpiper - 2
14. Rock Pigeon - 1
15. Mourning Dove - 6
16. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4
17. Chimney Swift - 13
18. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (1?,1*)
19. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,2*)
20. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,4*)
21. Downy Woodpecker - 8 (1m,2f,3*,2 juvenile)
22. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (*)
23. Northern Flicker - 3 (1m,1?,1*)
24. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*)
25. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 10
26. Acadian Flycatcher - 6
27. Willow Flycatcher - 3
28. Eastern Phoebe - 8 (4 juvenile)
29. Great Crested Flycatcher - 5
30. Eastern Kingbird - 4
31. White-eyed Vireo - 1
32. Yellow-throated Vireo - 4
33. Warbling Vireo - 12
34. Red-eyed Vireo - 10 (1 nest)
35. Blue Jay - 11
36. American Crow - 7
37. Tree Swallow - 7
38. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 15
39. Bank Swallow - 7
40. Barn Swallow - 9 (1 nest)
41. Black-capped Chickadee - 10 (1 juvenile)
42. Tufted Titmouse - 14 (1 juvenile)
43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (2m,3*)
44. Carolina Wren - 6 (2 juvenile)
45. House Wren - 2
46. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 9 (3?,6*)
47. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (1m,1*)
48. Veery - 4
49. American Robin - 41 (2 juvenile,2 nests)
50. Gray Catbird - 17
51. European Starling - 30
52. Cedar Waxwing - 27 (1 nest)
53. Yellow Warbler - 22 (21m,1f)
54. Yellow-throated Warbler - 3 (m)
55. Cerulean Warbler - 3 (m)
56. American Redstart - 7 (m)
57. Common Yellowthroat - 16 (m)
58. Hooded Warbler - 4 (m)
59. Scarlet Tanager - 6 (5m,1f)
60. Chipping Sparrow - 7
61. Song Sparrow - 44
62. Swamp Sparrow - 9
63. Northern Cardinal - 31 (17m,4f,3*,1 juvenile m,1 juvenile f,6 juvenile *)
64. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 10 (9m,1*)
65. Indigo Bunting - 21 (19m,2f)
66. Red-winged Blackbird - 35 (29m,5f,1 juvenile)
67. Common Grackle - 73 (1 juvenile)
68. Brown-headed Cowbird - 9 (7m,2f)
69. Orchard Oriole - 2 (1m,1 immature m)
70. Baltimore Oriole - 17 (15m,1f,1*)
71. House Finch - 4 (2m,1f,1*)
72. American Goldfinch - 14 (7m,2f,5*)
73. House Sparrow - 21
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 26
3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 12
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog - 1
2. Green Frog - 3
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Creek Chub - many
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 21
3. Summer Azure - 1
4. Silvery Checkerspot - 1
5. Little Wood Satyr - 2
6. Least Skipper - 2

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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