APRIL 15, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK - SUMMIT COUNTY.HIKE: Ira Trailhead to Towpath Trail north to Valley Bridle Trail to Furnace Run Loop to Rim Trail to Plateau Trail to OakHill Trail to Valley Picnic Area on Riverview Rd.TIME: 6:30am-10:45am TEMP.: 38-58 COND.: Chilly early, giving way to warm, sunny with blue skies.FT.MI.: 5.6 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES.   
   - Eastern Chipmunk - 8   

   - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 7
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
   - Red Squirrel - 1

II. BIRDS: 50 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)   
   - Canada Goose - 17 (3 nests)   

   - Wood Duck - 17 (9m,8f)
   - Mallard - 9 (5m,4f)
   - Common Loon - 1 (appeared to lift off from Indigo Lake, swing over Ira Beaver Marsh & head north)
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 2
   - Great Blue Heron - 3
   - Turkey Vulture - 1
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (*)
   - Broad-winged Hawk - 2 (in pine grove at top of Furnace Run Loop)
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 immature)
   - Virginia Rail - 1
   - Mourning Dove - 5
   - Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13 (2m,1f,3?,7*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 8 (3m,2f,3* - one pair copulating)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (*)
   - Northern Flicker - 5 (*)
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
   - Eastern Phoebe - 3
   - Blue Jay - 11
   - American Crow - 4
   - Tree Swallow - 11
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 19 (1 nest)
   - Tufted Titmouse - 12
   - Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (* - in pine grove at top of Furnace Run Loop)
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (*)
   - Winter Wren - 1 (near Sylvan Pond)
   - Carolina Wren - 3
   - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 16 (1f,10?,5*)
   - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (2m,1?)
   - American Robin - 20
   - Brown Thrasher - 1 (just south of Indian Springs Trailer Park but visible from Towpath Trail)
   - European Starling - 9
   - Pine Warbler - 1 (in pine grove at top of Furnace Run Loop)
   - Eastern Towhee - 3 (m)
   - American Tree Sparrow - 2
   - Chipping Sparrow - 3
   - Fox Sparrow - 5
   - Song Sparrow - 11
   - Swamp Sparrow - 4
   - White-throated Sparrow - 8
   - Northern Cardinal - 19 (16m,3f)
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 22 (17m,5f)
   - Rusty Blackbird - 2 (m)
   - Common Grackle - 14
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 (m)
   - House Finch - 1 (*)
   - Pine Siskin - 1 (in pine grove at top of Furnace Run Loop)
   - American Goldfinch - 9 (4m,1f,4*)
   - House Sparrow - 10

III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES.   
   - Midland Painted Turtle - 24

IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES.   
   - Northern Spring Peeper - 5 (heard)

V. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.   
   - Eastern Comma - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. 


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