OCTOBER 04, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census.
HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:05am-3:40pm TEMP.: 65-81-77
COND.: Cloudy early, warming & turning mostly sunny; front from the west, turning cloudy/overcast & cooler; light sprinkles from 2:50pm-3:20pm.
FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 80
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 (1 black morph)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
4. Red Squirrel - 26
5. White-tailed Deer - 1 (yearling doe)
II. BIRDS: 54 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 - 103
2. Wood Duck - 10 (6m,2f,2?)
3. Great Blue Heron - 9
4. Turkey Vulture - 18
5. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (f)
6. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
7. Red-tailed Hawk - 4
8. Killdeer - 14
9. Spotted Sandpiper - 1
10. Ring-billed Gull - 5
11. Rock Pigeon - 5
12. Mourning Dove - 9
13. Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 (calling to each other)
14. Chimney Swift - 22
15. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1?)
16. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 18 (3m,3f,2?,10*)
18. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
19. Downy Woodpecker - 13 (4m,4f,5*)
20. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (2m,1f,2*)
21. Northern Flicker - 7 (1f,2?,4*)
22. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1?,3*)
23. Merlin - 1 (?)
24. Eastern Phoebe - 5
25. Red-eyed Vireo - 1
26. Blue Jay - 45
27. American Crow - 17
28. Black-capped Chickadee - 25
29. Tufted Titmouse - 14
30. White-breasted Nuthatch - 13 (2m,1f,2?,8*)
31. Carolina Wren - 15
32. House Wren - 1
33. Eastern Bluebird - 16 (2m,5f,7?,2*)
34. American Robin - 103
35. Gray Catbird - 7
36. European Starling - 83
37. Cedar Waxwing - 196
38. Mourning Warbler - 1
39. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (*)
40. Hooded Warbler - 1
41. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 83
42. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*)
43. Song Sparrow - 20
44. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2
45. Swamp Sparrow - 8
46. White-throated Sparrow - 4
47. White-crowned Sparrow - 4
48. Northern Cardinal - 38 (10m,9f,4 juv. f,13*,2 juv. *)
49. Red-winged Blackbird - 266
50. Common Grackle - 599
51. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (m)
52. House Finch - 4 (1f,3?)
53. American Goldfinch - 15
54. House Sparrow - 12
III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1
2. Red-eared Turtle - 1
3. Midland Painted Turtle - 11
4. Northern Brown Snake - 1
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 28 (heard)
2. Bullfrog - 5
3. Green Frog - 5
V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 2
2. Creek Chub - 15
3. Bluegill - 7
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES.
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 10
2. Clouded Sulphur - 1
3. Eastern Comma - 1
4. Mourning Cloak - 1
5. Monarch - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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