OCTOBER 05, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:20am-3:30pm TEMP.: 60-66 COND.: Cloudy & pleasant; occasional sprinkles from 12:50pm-2:30pm.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 72
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (1 black phase)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
4. Red Squirrel - 26
5. White-tailed Deer - 5 (6-pt. buck,2 does,2 yearlings)
II. BIRDS: 53 SPECIES, 1 Exotic/Escape.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 25
E. Greylag/Barnyard Goose - 1
2. Wood Duck - 3 (2m,1f)
3. American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f)
4. Pied-billed Grebe - 3
5. Great Blue Heron - 8
6. Turkey Vulture - 7
7. Merlin - 1 (?)
8. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m)
9. Killdeer - 2
10. Rock Pigeon - 5
11. Mourning Dove - 22
12. Chimney Swift - 106
13. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2m,1?)
14. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 20 (2m,3f,10?,5*)
16. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (4f,3?,2*)
17. Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,3f,2?,3*)
18. Northern Flicker - 4 (1m,1?,2*)
19. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (1m,1f,1?,2*)
20. Eastern Phoebe - 2
21. Red-eyed Vireo - 1
22. Blue Jay - 42
23. American Crow - 24
24. Black-capped Chickadee - 24
25. Tufted Titmouse - 23
26. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (3m,1f,6*)
27. Carolina Wren - 10
28. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1f)
29. Eastern Bluebird - 12 (3m,2f,6?,1*)
30. American Robin - 48
31. Gray Catbird - 2
32. European Starling - 356
33. Cedar Waxwing - 130
34. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
35. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (m)
36. Hooded Warbler - 2 (1m,1*)
37. Blackpoll Warbler - 3
38. Palm Warbler - 1
39. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 54
40. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)
41. Chipping Sparrow - 3
42. Field Sparrow - 1
43. Song Sparrow - 39
44. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
45. Swamp Sparrow - 14
46. White-throated Sparrow - 21
47. Northern Cardinal -47 (15m,14f,2 juv. f,15*,1 juv. *)
48. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (m)
49. Red-winged Blackbird - 90 (24m,3f,63?)
50. Purple Finch - 1 (f)
51. House Finch - 6 (1f,5?)
52. American Goldfinch - 23
53. House Sparrow - 8
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 1
2. Northern Brown Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 11 (*)
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Bluegill - 3

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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