JULY 05, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 5:45am-1:15pm TEMP.: 69-76-74
COND.: Overcast with off & on light sprinkles until 8:15am; partly cloudy until 10:45am when light sprinkles resumed turning into
light rain until 12:15pm; overcast with light to heavy mist from 12:45pm until end of census.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock Trailhead to Lock 29 in Peninsula) & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 9 SPECIES.
1. Little Brown Myotis - 1
** Mink - 1 dead ** 
2. Woodchuck - 1
3. Eastern Chipmunk - 24
4. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1
5. Red Squirrel - 15
6. Beaver - 1
7. Muskrat - 1
8. Eastern Cottontail - 7 (2 young)
9. White-tailed Deer - 15 (3 bucks,8 does & 4 fawns)
II. BIRDS: 76 SPECIES. (Also 1 Exotic/Escape & 1 Hybrid)
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 9 (6 young)
E. Greylag Goose - 1
H. Greylag GooseXCanada Goose - 3 (young)
2. Wood Duck - 21 (5f,16 young)
3. Mallard - 6 (2f,4 young)
4. Great Blue Heron - 8 (also 1 dead)
5. Green Heron - 2
6. Turkey Vulture - 2
7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
8. Broad-winged Hawk - 1
9. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (3 juvenile)
10. Killdeer - 1
11. Spotted Sandpiper - 2
12. Mourning Dove - 18
13. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1
14. Chimney Swift - 17
15. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (1f,1?)
16. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (?)
17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1m,5*)
18. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,2f,1?,5*)
19. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (2f,2*)
20. Northern Flicker - 5 (1m,1?,3*)
21. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
22. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6
23. Acadian Flycatcher - 6
24. Willow Flycatcher - 1
25. Eastern Phoebe - 3
26. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
27. Eastern Kingbird - 3
28. White-eyed Vireo - 1
29. Yellow-throated Vireo - 5
30. Warbling Vireo - 10
31. Red-eyed Vireo - 15
32. Blue Jay - 9
33. American Crow - 9
34. Tree Swallow - 8
35. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 26
36. Bank Swallow - 16
37. Barn Swallow - 9 (1 nest)
38. Black-capped Chickadee - 21 (2 juvenile)
39. Tufted Titmouse - 18 (3 juvenile)
40. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 (*)
41. Carolina Wren - 10
42. House Wren - 4
43. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 (*)
44. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*)
45. Veery - 1
46. Wood Thrush - 4 (1 juvenile)
47. American Robin - 69 (13 juvenile)
48. Gray Catbird - 35
49. European Starling - 25
50. Cedar Waxwing - 17 (1 nest)
51. Louisiana Waterthrush - 2
52. Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (1m feeding a juvenile)
53. Common Yellowthroat - 22 (m)
54. Hooded Warbler - 8 (m)
55. American Redstart - 7 (m)
56. Cerulean Warbler - 2 (m)
57. Yellow Warbler - 7 (4m,2f,1*)
58. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (m)
59. Yellow-throated Warbler - 7 (m)
60. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m)
61. Chipping Sparrow - 10
62. Field Sparrow - 2
63. Song Sparrow - 53
64. Swamp Sparrow - 10
65. Scarlet Tanager - 6 (5m,1f)
66. Northern Cardinal - 42 (24m,8f,4*,6 juvenile*)
67. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (3m,1*)
68. Indigo Bunting - 30 (29m,1f)
69. Red-winged Blackbird - 84 (17m,14f,53?)
70. Common Grackle - 768
71. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (2m,1f,2?,2*,1 juvenile)
72. Orchard Oriole - 3 (m)
73. Baltimore Oriole - 3 (m)
74. House Finch - 4 (1m,1f,2*)
75. American Goldfinch - 20 (6m,5f,1?,8*)
76. House Sparrow - 22
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 16
3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 11
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Gray Treefrog - 1
2. Bullfrog - 1
3. Green Frog - 18
V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Bluegill - 7
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 13
3. Great Spangled Fritillary - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.


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