AUGUST 03, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:15am-2:30pm TEMP.: 65-79
COND.: Gray & overcast early, clearing out turning sunny & warm. 
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 16
2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
3. Red Squirrel - 9
4. White-tailed Deer - 6 (5 does,1 fawn)
II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES, 1 EXOTIC/ESCAPE.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
E. "Greylag/Barnyard" Goose - 1
1. Canada Goose - 29
2. Wood Duck - 22 (5m,10 juv. m,4f,3 juv. f)
3. Great Blue Heron - 9
4. Green Heron - 6 (1 immature)
5. Turkey Vulture - 7
6. Red-shouldered Hawk - 3
7. Broad-winged Hawk - 2 (1 immature)
8. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 immature)
9. Killdeer - 2
10. Spotted Sandpiper - 2
11. Rock Pigeon - 2
12. Mourning Dove - 4
13. Chimney Swift - 19
14. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (f)
15. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*)
16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1 juv. m,1 juv. f,4*)
17. Downy Woodpecker - 8 (1m,7*)
18. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (*)
19. Northern Flicker - 4 (*)
20. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*)
21. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
22. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 12
23. Acadian Flycatcher - 4
24. Willow Flycatcher - 1
25. Eastern Phoebe - 3
26. Yellow-throated Vireo - 3
27. Warbling Vireo - 4
28. Red-eyed Vireo - 4
29. Blue Jay - 20
30. American Crow - 9
31. Purple Martin - 1 (new species recorded on census - now at 154 species since 01/2010)
32. Tree Swallow - 7
33. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 11
34. Bank Swallow - 56
35. Barn Swallow - 13
36. Black-capped Chickadee - 14
37. Tufted Titmouse - 12
38. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (2m,6*)
39. Carolina Wren - 14
40. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 (1?,3*)
41. American Robin - 28 (1 immature)
42. Gray Catbird - 18
43. European Starling - 316
44. Cedar Waxwing - 18
45. Common Yellowthroat - 14 (13m,1*)
46. Hooded Warbler - 6 (1m,1 juv. m,1?,3*)
47. Yellow Warbler - 3 (m)
48. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1*)
49. Field Sparrow - 2
50. Song Sparrow - 35
51. Swamp Sparrow - 9
52. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (m)
53. Northern Cardinal - 48 (25m,5f,13*,5 juv. *)
54. Indigo Bunting - 20 (18m,1f,1*)
55. Red-winged Blackbird - 107 (6f,101 mixed flock)
56. Common Grackle - 704
57. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (?)
58. House Finch - 2 (1m,1*)
59. American Goldfinch - 30 (13m,1f,5?,11*)
60. House Sparrow - 24
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3
2. Midland Painted Turtle - 33
3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 14
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog - 1
2. Green Frog - 11
V. FISHES: 5 SPECIES.
1. Creek Chub - 5
2. Northern Hog Sucker - 1
3. Largemouth Bass - 3
4. Bluegill - 3
5. Pumpkinseed - 4
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 10 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 9
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 11
3. Clouded Sulphur - 1
4. Summer Azure - 7
5. Pearl Crescent - 1
6. Eastern Comma - 2
7. Red-spotted Purple - 2
8. Viceroy - 2
9. Monarch - 1
10. Zabulon Skipper - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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