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MAY 13, 2016 - SUMMIT COUNTY METRO PARKS & CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK.HIKE: Summit County Metro Parks Bike & Hike Trail from Rt. 303 north to Cuyahoga Valley National Park at Brandywine Falls, Brandywine Falls Gorge Trail to Stanford Trail to Stanford Hostel Towpath Connector Trail to Towpath Trail north to Red Lock Trailhead.TIME: 6:40am-12:50pm TEMP.: 55-74-69 COND.: Overcast until 9:40am, then partly cloudy, turning mostly sunny at 10:05am until 11:15am,then turning mostly cloudy & cooler until end of hike; breezy west winds most of the day.FT.MI.: 8.45 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
   - Eastern Chipmunk - 31

   - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 21 (13 black morph)
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
   - Red Squirrel - 4
   - Eastern Cottontail - 1

II. BIRDS: 86 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
   - Canada Goose - 8

   - Wood Duck - 7 (1m,3f,3 ducklings)
   - Mallard - 3 (1m,1f,1*)
   - Great Blue Heron - 7
   - Turkey Vulture - 12
   - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m)
   - Broad-winged Hawk - 2
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 5
   - Spotted Sandpiper - 1
   - Ring-billed Gull - 1
   - Mourning Dove - 6
   - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (Stanford Trail)
   - Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 (Towpath Trail near Stanford Swamp)
   - Barred Owl - 2 (calling along Bike & Hike Trail at Boston Ledges)
   - Chimney Swift - 8
   - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (1m,3f,3?,9*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 6 (1m,2f,3*)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,3f)
   - Northern Flicker - 3 (*)
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*)
   - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
   - Acadian Flycatcher - 3
   - Willow Flycatcher - 1
   - Least Flycatcher - 2
   - Eastern Phoebe - 1
   - Great Crested Flycatcher - 4
   - Eastern Kingbird - 1
   - White-eyed Vireo - 1
   - Yellow-throated Vireo - 6
   - Blue-headed Vireo - 3
   - Warbling Vireo - 3
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 23
   - Blue Jay - 15
   - American Crow - 6
   - Tree Swallow - 4
   - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4
   - Barn Swallow - 6
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 18
   - Tufted Titmouse - 17
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 (*)
   - House Wren - 3
   - Carolina Wren - 1
   - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 12 (4m,2f,1?,5* - 1 nest)
   - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (f)
   - Eastern Bluebird - 2 (m)
   - Swainson's Thrush - 4
   - Wood Thrush - 3
   - American Robin - 24 (1 abandoned nest with 2 broken eggs)
   - Gray Catbird - 14
   - European Starling - 3
   - Cedar Waxwing - 9
   - Ovenbird - 5
   - Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Tennessee Warbler - 5 (4m,1f)
   - Nashville Warbler - 2 (f)
   - Common Yellowthroat - 19 (16m,3*)
   - Hooded Warbler - 8 (m)
   - American Redstart - 2 (m)
   - Magnolia Warbler - 7 (4m,3f)
   - Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 (1m,1f)
   - Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Yellow Warbler - 11 (10m,1f)
   - Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 (3m,1f)
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (f)
   - Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (m)
   - Eastern Towhee - 4 (m)
   - Chipping Sparrow - 6
   - Field Sparrow - 8
   - Song Sparrow - 25
   - Swamp Sparrow - 5
   - White-crowned Sparrow - 1
   - Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (m - singing along Bike & Hike Trail at north end of Boston Ledges)
   - Scarlet Tanager - 7 (6m,1f)
   - Northern Cardinal - 32 (24m,5f,3*)
   - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 5 (2m,3f)
   - Indigo Bunting - 14 (m)
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 52 (42m,8f,1?,1*)
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 2
   - Common Grackle - 10
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 11 (8m,3f)
   - Orchard Oriole - 3 (2m,1 immature m)
   - Baltimore Oriole - 7 (5m,2f)
   - House Finch - 3 (1m,1f,1*)
   - American Goldfinch - 29 (13m,10f,2?,4*)
   - House Sparrow - 4

III. AMPHIBIANS: 5 SPECIES.

   - Red-spotted Newt - 2 (in Red Lock)

   - American Toad - (many calling)

   - Gray Treefrog - 1 (calling)
   - Bullfrog - 1 (calling)
   - Green Frog - 6

IV. FISHES: 1 SPECIES.

   - Goldfish - 8 (in Red Lock)


V. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES.

   - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1

   - Cabbage Butterfly - 2
   - Pearl Crescent - 1
   - Red Admiral - 2
   - Wild Indigo Dusky Wing - 4

VI. WILDFLOWER OF NOTE

   - Columbine (along Bike & Hike Trail at Boston Ledges)


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.


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