SEPTEMBER 08, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:30am-3:40pm TEMP.: 65-62-71
COND.: Steady rain from 6:30am-9:45am then overcast until 11:50am; mostly cloudy until 12:40pm; partly sunny & breezy from 12:40pm-3:40pm;
(Cuyahoga River high due to recent rains - no sand/rock bars). FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 27
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (1 black phase)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
4. Red Squirrel - 13
5. Eastern Cottontail - 1
6. White-tailed Deer - 2 (1 spike buck,1 doe)
II. BIRDS: 71 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
E. "Greylag Goose" (escape/exotic) - 1
1. Canada Goose - 290
2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1?)
3. Pied-billed Grebe - 1
4. Great Blue Heron - 7
5. Green Heron - 5 (4 immature)
6. Turkey Vulture - 6
7. Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
8. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m)
9. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
10. Red-tailed Hawk - 7 (2 immature)
11. Killdeer - 7
12. Spotted Sandpiper - 1
13. Rock Pigeon - 17
14. Mourning Dove - 5
15. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4 (2 adults feeding 2 immature)
16. Chimney Swift - 113
17. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (m)
18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 (3f,6*)
19. Downy Woodpecker - 7 (3m,3f,1?)
20. Hairy Woodpecker - 10 (3m,4f,3*)
21. Northern Flicker - 7 (2m,2f,3*)
22. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
23. Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1
24. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 12
25. Acadian Flycatcher - 1
26. Least Flycatcher - 1
??. Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 2
27. Eastern Phoebe - 4
28. White-eyed Vireo - 1
29. Yellow-throated Vireo - 3
30. Warbling Vireo - 4
31. Philadelphia Vireo - 1
32. Red-eyed Vireo - 4
33. Blue Jay - 30
34. American Crow - 40
35. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
36. Black-capped Chickadee - 27
37. Tufted Titmouse - 16
38. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (2m,1f,1?,6*)
39. Carolina Wren - 6
40. House Wren - 2 (1 immature)
41. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (m)
42. Wood Thrush - 1
43. American Robin - 14 (1 immature)
44. Gray Catbird - 22
45. European Starling - 6
46. Cedar Waxwing - 257 (many immature)
47. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m)
48. Tennessee Warbler - 1
49. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m)
50. Common Yellowthroat - 9 (2m,4f,3*)
51. Hooded Warbler - 7 (5m,1f,1*)
52. American Redstart - 2 (female or immature male)
53. Magnolia Warbler - 3 (f)
54. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 (m)
55. Blackburnian Warbler - 2 (1m,1f)
56. Blackpoll Warbler - 3
57. Yellow-throated Warbler - 4 (1 male & 1 female feeding 2 immature)
58. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (f)
59. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)
60. Field Sparrow - 6 (immature)
61. Song Sparrow - 8
62. Scarlet Tanager - 6 (2m,3f,1?)
63. Northern Cardinal - 54 (11m,5 immature m,14f,4 immature f,14*,6 immature *)
64. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 5 (f)
65. Red-winged Blackbird - 19 (m)
66. Common Grackle - 2
67. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (1m,1f)
68. Purple Finch - 2 (f)
69. House Finch - 2 (?)
70. American Goldfinch - 38 (7m,15f,6?,8*,2 immature)
71. House Sparrow - 2
III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 3
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2
2. Green Frog - 2
V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 1
2. Bluegill - 8
3. Pumpkinseed - 2
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 16
2. Pearl Crescent - 1
3. Viceroy - 1
4. Monarch - 41
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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