JUNE 04, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley - with stops at both Trail Mix in Peninsula & Szalay's Farm Market on Bolanz Rd.TIME: 5:30am~2:35pm TEMP.: 53~73 COND.: Cloudy all day with very light sprinkles from 8:35am~8:40am; very light sprinkles again at 1:10pm turning to steady sprinkles from 1:30pm~2:00pm. TRAIL COND.: Excellent. RIVER COND.: Very low & clear due to lack of rain.FT.MI.: 13.63 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES, 111 TOTAL MAMMALS.

   - Mink - 1

   - Eastern Chipmunk - 73
   - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
   - Red Squirrel - 25
   - Muskrat - 2
   - Eastern Cottontail - 3
   - White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe)

II. BIRDS: 79 SPECIES, 1,120 TOTAL BIRDS.(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)

   - Canada Goose - 52 (19 young)

   - Wood Duck - 24 (5m,8f,1?,1*,9 ducklings)
   - Mallard - 12 (8m,4f)
   - Great Blue Heron - 15
   - Green Heron - 2
   - Turkey Vulture - 14
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 juvenile)
   - Killdeer - 8
   - Spotted Sandpiper - 7
   - Herring Gull - 1
   - Rock Pigeon - 4
   - Mourning Dove - 13
   - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 9 (New Census High - previous was 4 on 06/02/2012 & 09/08/2012)
   - Chimney Swift - 6
   - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (? - divebombing juvenile Red-tailed Hawk)
   - Belted Kingfisher - 6 (3m,1f,2?)
   - Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 (1 nest at Stanford Swamp)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13 (1f,12*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 6 (2?,2*,2 juvenile - 1 nest in a dead buckeye tree limb)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*)
   - Northern Flicker - 7 (1m,3f,1?,2*)
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1?,2*)
   - American Kestrel - 1 (m - at the Akron Water Pollution Control Station - First Record on June Census)
   - Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f - "Rocky" & "Gatewood" at the Ohio Turnpike bridge)
   - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13
   - Acadian Flycatcher - 7
   - Willow Flycatcher - 2
   - Eastern Phoebe - 4
   - Great Crested Flycatcher - 9 (1 nest in a sycamore snag above "Deep Lock" - Lock 28)
   - Eastern Kingbird - 6
   - White-eyed Vireo - 1
   - Yellow-throated Vireo - 9
   - Warbling Vireo - 27
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 28 (New Census High - previous was 25 on 06/04/2011)
   - Blue Jay - 23 (1 juvenile)
   - American Crow - 5
   - Tree Swallow - 11 (1 nest in a black willow snag)
   - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 14
   - Bank Swallow - 1
   - Barn Swallow - 5
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 16
   - Tufted Titmouse - 21
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (1m,2*)
   - House Wren - 4
   - Carolina Wren - 8
   - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 14 (2m,1f,4?,7* - 2 nests: 1 in an ash tree and 1 in a sycamore tree)
   - Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*)
   - Veery - 5
   - Wood Thrush - 5 (New Census High - previous was 4 on 06/01/2013 & 07/05/2013)
   - American Robin - 49 (1 juvenile - 1 nest in an elm tree)
   - Gray Catbird - 28 (1 nest in a multiflora rose bush)
   - European Starling - 39
   - Cedar Waxwing - 26 (8 nests: 6 in sycamore tree, 1 in black walnut tree & 1 in autumn-olive bush)
   - Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 (singing north of "Deep Lock" - Lock 28)
   - Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (m)
   - Common Yellowthroat - 23 (m)
   - Hooded Warbler - 5 (m)
   - American Redstart - 13 (m)
   - Cerulean Warbler - 2 (m)
   - Yellow Warbler - 43 (39m,2f,2?)
   - Yellow-throated Warbler - 3 (m)
   - Eastern Towhee - 6 (m)
   - Chipping Sparrow - 1
   - Field Sparrow - 3
   - Song Sparrow - 61
   - Swamp Sparrow - 14
   - Scarlet Tanager - 3 (m)
   - Northern Cardinal - 56 (44m,6f,6*)
   - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 13 (12m,1f)
   - Indigo Bunting - 23 (22m,1f)
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 82 (64m,18f)
   - Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (Tied Census High from 04/02/2010 - in field between I-271 & Ohio Turnpike bridges - First June Record on Census)
   - Common Grackle - 46 (2 juvenile)
   - Brown-headed Cowbird - 24 (20m,2f,2?)\
   - Orchard Oriole - 8 (7m,1 immature m - New Census High - previous was 7 on four different occasions)
   - Baltimore Oriole - 14 (13m,1f)
   - House Finch - 5 (2m,3*)
   - American Goldfinch - 30 (9m,5f,14?,2*)
   - House Sparrow - 31
   - Unidentified Passerines - 8

III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.


   - Common Snapping Turtle - 3

   - Midland Painted Turtle - 18
   - Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1

IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.


   - Gray Treefrog - 3 (heard only)

   - Bullfrog - 5

   - Green Frog - 23


V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES.

   - Common Carp - 2

   - Creek Chub - 4
   - Bluegill - 4

VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES.


   - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2

   - Cabbage Butterfly - 1
   - Little Wood Satyr - 3

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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