APRIL 06, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:40am-3:10pm TEMP.: 24-53
COND.: Mostly cloudy early & chilly turning cloudy; clouds lifting & turning mostly sunny & warmer from 10:20am on.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Boston), John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Mink - 1
2. Eastern Chipmunk - 9
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
4. Red Squirrel - 26
5. Muskrat - 1
6. White-tailed Deer - 3
II. BIRDS: 52 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 74 (2 nests)
2. Wood Duck - 4 (2m,2f)
3. American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f)
4. Mallard - 13 (9m,4f)
5. Ring-necked Duck - 29 (16m,13f)
6. Great Blue Heron - 10
7. Turkey Vulture - 10
8. Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adult, 1 immature)
9. Red-tailed Hawk - 10 (1 immature)
10. Virginia Rail - 1 (calling at Ira Beaver Marsh)
11. American Coot - 1
12. Killdeer - 2
13. Ring-billed Gull - 8
14. Herring Gull - 1
15. Rock Pigeon - 2
16. Mourning Dove - 7
17. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (2m,1f,1*)
18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 (3m,2f,1?,6*, 1 nest)
19. Downy Woodpecker - 12 (4m,5f,1?,2*)
20. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1?,2*)
21. Northern Flicker - 2 (*)
22. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (2?,3*)
23. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m)
24. Eastern Phoebe - 4
25. Blue Jay - 15
26. American Crow - 15
27. Tree Swallow - 40 (all at Ira Beaver Marsh)
28. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3
29. Black-capped Chickadee - 39
30. Tufted Titmouse - 17
31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 12 (4m,2f,2?,4*)
32. Brown Creeper - 2
33. Carolina Wren - 12
34. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6 (2m,1f,2?,1*)
35. Eastern Bluebird - 5 (3m,2f)
36. American Robin - 47
37. European Starling - 12
38. American Tree Sparrow - 13
39. Fox Sparrow - 3
40. Song Sparrow - 73
41. Swamp Sparrow - 2
42. White-throated Sparrow - 4
43. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 (first-winter bird along Towpath between trail & Szalay's corn fields at Bolanz lot)
44. Dark-eyed Junco - 3 (1m,2f)
45. Northern Cardinal - 43 (36m,4f,3*)
46. Red-winged Blackbird - 42 (31m,1f,10?)
47. Rusty Blackbird - 2 (m)
48. Common Grackle - 48
49. Brown-headed Cowbird - 11 (9m,1f,1*)
50. House Finch - 4 (2m,2*)
51. American Goldfinch - 17 (8m,1f,4?,4*)
52. House Sparrow - 18
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Red-eared Turtle - 1
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 67
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - (many heard)
2. Wood Frog - (many heard)
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Creek Chub - 35+
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Comma - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.  

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