MAY 10, 2015 - Birds4Cure Juvenile Diabetes Hike <www.birds4cure.wordpress.com>HIKE: Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail from just north of Rockside Rd. to the old Coast Guard Station and Wendy Park at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River at Lake Erie, Cleveland. 100 miles done between Dover and Cleveland.TIME: 8:00am-5:30pm TEMP.: 67-86 COND.: Cloudy early, with brief sprinkles from 8:10am-8:40am, then cloudy giving way to sunshine & very hot - again! FT.MI.: 14.0 OBS.: Douglas W. & Michelle Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.   
   - Eastern Chipmunk - 3   

   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
   - Muskrat - 1
   - Eastern Cottontail - 1
   - White-tailed Deer - 1 (buck)
II. BIRDS: 75 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)   
   - Canada Goose - 69 (28 goslings)   

   - Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f)
   - Mallard - 22 (16m,6f)
   - Common Merganser - 1 (m - in Cuyahoga River south of Harvard Ave.)
   - Double-crested Cormorant - 53
   - Great Blue Heron - 1
   - Green Heron - 3
   - Turkey Vulture - 6
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature m)
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 2
   - American Coot - 1 (in Cuyahoga River north of Scranton Rd. Flats)
   - Killdeer - 13
   - Spotted Sandpiper - 3
   - Ring-billed Gull - 72
   - Herring Gull - 26 (1 nest)
   - Great Black-backed Gull - 1 (immature - mouth of the Cuyahoga River)
   - Caspian Tern - 14 (mouth of the Cuyahoga River)
   - Common Tern - 5 (mouth of the Cuyahoga River)
   - Rock Pigeon - 41
   - Mourning Dove - 9
   - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
   - Common Nighthawk - 1
   - Chimney Swift - 36
   - Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 (1?,4*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,4*)
   - Northern Flicker - 4 (1f,3*)
   - American Kestrel - 2 (both males - one at Arcelor-Mittal Steel Plant & one on a Tremont church steeple)
   - Peregrine Falcon - 2 (both males - one at I-480 bridge & one at Hope-Memorial Bridge)
   - Willow Flycatcher - 6
   - Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
   - Eastern Kingbird - 2
   - Warbling Vireo - 18
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 4
   - Blue Jay - 6
   - American Crow - 2
   - Tree Swallow - 5
   - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 12
   - Bank Swallow - 2
   - Barn Swallow - 14 (2 nests)
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 3
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (?)
   - House Wren - 3
   - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 6 (1f,5*)
   - Wood Thrush - 1
   - American Robin - 41 (3 young, 2 nests)
   - Gray Catbird - 25
   - Northern Mockingbird - 5
   - Brown Thrasher - 1
   - European Starling - 49
   - Tennessee Warbler - 3 (m)
   - Common Yellowthroat - 8 (7m,1*)
   - Northern Parula - 1 (m)
   - Magnolia Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Yellow Warbler - 35 (29m,4f,2?,1 nest)
   - Palm Warbler - 1
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (f)
   - Chipping Sparrow - 2
   - Savannah Sparrow - 1 (in grass field below I-480 bridge)
   - Song Sparrow - 21
   - Swamp Sparrow - 1
   - White-crowned Sparrow - 2
   - Scarlet Tanager - 1 (m)
   - Northern Cardinal - 13 (11m,1f,1*)
   - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (m)
   - Indigo Bunting - 6 (m)
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 32 (18m,14f)
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 2
   - Common Grackle - 11
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 9 (m)
   - Orchard Oriole - 6 (3m,2 immature m,1f)
   - Baltimore Oriole - 13 (12m,1f)
   - House Finch - 8 (3m,1f,4*)
   - American Goldfinch - 22 (14m,5f,3*)
   - House Sparrow - 73
REPTILES: 2 SPECIES.   
   - Common Snapping Turtle - 1   

   - Red-eared Turtle - 1
AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.   
   - Bullfrog - 1   

FISHES: 1 SPECIES.   
   - Common Carp - 3   

BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES.   
   - Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1   

   - Cabbage Butterfly - 6
   - Pearl Crescent - 3
   - Red Admiral - 3
Well, that's it! 100 miles of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail complete! A trek through the industrial heartland intoCleveland and to the shores of Lake Erie produced 6 more new species of birds to give us a final total of 131 speciesof birds over the 100 mile route. The new species added to the final day were: Common Merganser, Great Black-backedGull, Caspian Tern, Common Tern, American Kestrel and Savannah Sparrow. Thanks to all who have donated givingus a grand total of $3,899.25 raised for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation!!!
Michael, Susan, Izabelle & Ileena Zager - Fairlawn, Ohio.Douglas W. & Michelle Vogus - Akron, Ohio.


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