MAY 09, 2015 - Birds4Cure Juvenile Diabetes Hike <www.birds4cure.wordpress.com>HIKE: Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail north from Merriman Valley to just north of Rockside Rd.TIME: 6:20am-6:30pm TEMP.: 59-89 COND.: Unseasonably hot.FT.MI.: 23.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES.
   - Woodchuck - 1

   - Eastern Chipmunk - 25
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
   - Red Squirrel - 7
   - Muskrat - 1
   - Eastern Cottontail - 2
   - White-tailed Deer - 3 (bucks)
II. BIRDS: 87 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
   - Canada Goose - 84 (4 goslings, 2 nests)

   - Wood Duck - 8 (3m,4f,1*)
   - Mallard - 22 (17m,5f)
   - Lesser Scaup - 1 (f - in canal along Canal Rd. between Pleasant Valley Rd. & Tinkers Creek Rd.)
   - Great Blue Heron - 19
   - Green Heron - 2
   - Turkey Vulture - 17
   - Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 10 (1 nest)
   - Killdeer - 4
   - Spotted Sandpiper - 4
   - Solitary Sandpiper - 1
   - Ring-billed Gull - 3
   - Rock Pigeon - 6
   - Mourning Dove - 12
   - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (north of Ira Beaver Marsh)
   - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph - north of Ira Beaver Marsh)
   - Chimney Swift - 8
   - Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1*)
   - Red-headed Woodpecker - 4
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 19 (1m,2?,16*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 10 (2m,1f,7*)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1m,1f,1*)
   - Northern Flicker - 5 (*)
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*)
   - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - Ohio Turnpike bridge)
   - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
   - Acadian Flycatcher - 1
   - Willow Flycatcher - 1
   - Eastern Phoebe - 2
   - Great Crested Flycatcher - 7 (1 nest)
   - Eastern Kingbird - 8
   - White-eyed Vireo - 3
   - Yellow-throated Vireo - 8
   - Warbling Vireo - 28
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 26
   - Blue Jay - 14
   - American Crow - 13
   - Tree Swallow - 7
   - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 30
   - Barn Swallow - 6 (1 nest)
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 21
   - Tufted Titmouse - 26
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (2m,1f,5*)
   - Carolina Wren - 1
   - House Wren - 4
   - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 30 (2m,1?,27*)
   - Eastern Bluebird - 2 (1m,1*)
   - Veery - 1
   - Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1
   - Wood Thrush - 1
   - American Robin - 49 (1 nest)
   - Gray Catbird - 45
   - European Starling - 10
   - Louisiana Waterthrush - 2
   - Northern Waterthrush - 2
   - Blue-winged Warbler - 4 (m)
   - Tennessee Warbler - 10 (m)
   - Common Yellowthroat - 49 (47m,2*)
   - Hooded Warbler - 13 (m)
   - American Redstart - 8 (m)
   - Cerulean Warbler - 5 (m)
   - Northern Parula - 2 (m)
   - Magnolia Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Yellow Warbler - 65 (59m,1f,3?,2*)
   - Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Yellow-throated Warbler - 8 (m)
   - Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1*)
   - Chipping Sparrow - 3
   - Field Sparrow - 1
   - Song Sparrow - 65
   - Swamp Sparrow - 10
   - White-throated Sparrow - 2
   - Scarlet Tanager - 10 (8m,1f,1*)
   - Northern Cardinal - 71 (64m,1f,6*)
   - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 7 (5m,2*)
   - Indigo Bunting - 25 (m)
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 77 (53m,24f)
   - Common Grackle - 28
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 17 (13m,3f,1*)
   - Orchard Oriole - 4 (3m,1f)
   - Baltimore Oriole - 37 (35m,2f)
   - House Finch - 5 (1m,4*)
   - American Goldfinch - 36 (22m,3f,4?,7*)
   - House Sparrow - 22
III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.
   - Common Snapping Turtle - 4

   - Midland Painted Turtle - 46
AMPHIBIANS: 5 SPECIES.
   - Red-spotted Newt - 1

   - American Toad - 1
   - Gray Treefrog - 8
   - Bullfrog - 2
   - Green Frog - 6
FISHES: 4 SPECIES.
   - Common Carp - 9

   - Creek Chub - 20+
   - Rosyside Dace - 2
   - Bluegill - 2
BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES.
   - Cabbage Butterfly - 7

   - Meadow Fritillary - 1
   - Red Admiral - 11
   - Mourning Cloak - 1
Slow day on the Towpath Trail today. The heat seems to have shut down any singing migrant warblers. Have many alreadypassed through, or is the next wave on the way? Heck, the heat has me just about shut down!So, those of you that have pledged an amount per bird, we added 4 new species today to put us at 125 species! Only 14 moremiles to go to Lake Erie tomorrow! The new species added are: Lesser Scaup, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Eastern Screech-Owl &Gray-cheeked Thrush. Thank you to all who have pledged!!!
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.



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