JULY 08, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 5:25am - 1:30pm TEMP.: 70~86 COND.: Overcast with light sprinkles at start; sprinkles ending. Rain shower from 6:50am - 7:10am; Front moving out from the west turning mostly sunny with occasional gray clouds not producing rain; then turning sunny, hot and humid with light and variable winds. TRAIL COND.: Average: wet and slick in places from rain, puddles and occasional mud. RIVER COND.: Still very low and shallow in places, great visibility, many rock and sandbars exposed.FT.MI.: 13.43 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES.
- Shorttail Shrew - 1
- Eastern Chipmunk - 28
- Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1
- Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1
- Red Squirrel - 19
- Beaver - 1
- Muskrat - 2
- White-tailed Deer - 8 (4 doe,4 fawn)
II. BIRDS: 79 SPECIES (New High for July - previous was 76 in 2013), 1,293 TOTAL BIRDS.(NOTE: m = male, f = female, ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
- Canada Goose - 39
- Wood Duck - 22 (2m,3f,6 juvenile,11 ducklings)
- Mallard - 4 (1m,2f,1 juvenile)
- Great Blue Heron - 10 (2 juvenile)
- Green Heron - 4
- Turkey Vulture - 11
- Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1m,1 immature m - Tied Census High from 12 different occasions)
- Broad-winged Hawk - 1
- Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 juvenile)
- Killdeer - 14
- Spotted Sandpiper - 9
- Solitary Sandpiper - 1 (First July Record on Census)
- American Woodcock - 2 (First July Record on Census)
- Rock Pigeon - 3
- Mourning Dove - 10
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
- Eastern Screech-Owl - 3 (all calling - Tied Census High from 12/2015)
- Chimney Swift - 2
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 (1f,1?,2* - Tied Census High from 09/2011)
- Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,2?,1*)
- Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
- Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 (2?,5*)
- Downy Woodpecker - 9 (3f,6*)
- Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,1 juvenile m,3f,1?,3*)
- Northern Flicker - 6 (2m,1?,4*)
- Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
- Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - "Rocky" at Ohio Turnpike bridge)
- Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13
- Acadian Flycatcher - 6
- Willow Flycatcher - 1
- Eastern Phoebe - 5
- Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
- Eastern Kingbird - 7
- Yellow-throated Vireo - 4
- Warbling Vireo - 14
- Red-eyed Vireo - 13
- Blue Jay - 19 (2 juvenile)
- American Crow - 11 (1 juvenile)
- Tree Swallow - 7 (1 juvenile)
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 16 (4 juvenile)
- Bank Swallow - 1
- Barn Swallow - 12 (2 juvenile)
- Black-capped Chickadee - 24 (2 juvenile)
- Tufted Titmouse - 22 (3 juvenile)
- White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 (*)
- Carolina Wren - 11
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 6 (1m,1f,3?,1*)
- Eastern Bluebird - 4 (1m,1f,1 juvenile,1*)
- Veery - 2
- Wood Thrush - 2
- American Robin - 51(5 juvenile)
- Gray Catbird - 24
- Brown Thrasher - 2 (juvenile - New Census High - previous was 1 on 04/2012)
- European Starling - 28
- Cedar Waxwing - 12
- Louisiana Waterthrush - 2
- Common Yellowthroat - 30 (29m,1f)
- Hooded Warbler - 7 (m)
- American Redstart - 1 (m)
- Cerulean Warbler - 1 (m)
- Yellow Warbler - 7 (2m,5 juvenile)
- Yellow-throated Warbler - 4 (m)
- Eastern Towhee - 4 (3m,1*)
- Chipping Sparrow - 1
- Field Sparrow - 2
- Song Sparrow - 53
- Swamp Sparrow - 18 (Tied Census High from 07/2015)
- Scarlet Tanager - 4 (3m,1f - 1 nest in sycamore tree)
- Northern Cardinal - 37 (17m,1 juvenile m,4f,1 juvenile f,6*,8 juvenile *)
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 (1m,1f)
- Indigo Bunting - 15 (m)
- Red-winged Blackbird - 39 (32m,7f)
- Common Grackle - 461
- Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (6m,1f,1 juvenile)
- Orchard Oriole - 2 (1m,1f - 1 nest in sycamore tree)
- Baltimore Oriole - 7 (1m,2f,1 immature,2 juvenile,1*)
- House Finch - 3 (*)
- American Goldfinch - 19 (9m,1f,1?,8*)
- House Sparrow - 28
- Unidentified Passerines - 19
III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES.
- Common Snapping Turtle - 2
- Red-eared Turtle - 1
- Midland Painted Turtle - 65
- Eastern Spiny Softshell - 5
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES.
- American Toad - 4
- Gray Treefrog - 2 (heard only)
- Bullfrog - 2
- Green Frog - 18
V. FISHES: 9 SPECIES.
- Common Carp - 2
- Golden Shiner - 60+ (Ira Beaver Marsh)
- Creek Chub - 11
- Common White Sucker - 1 (Cuyahoga River)
- Northern Hog Sucker - 4 (Yellow Creek)
- Rock Bass - 1 (Ira Beaver Marsh)
- Largemouth Bass - 2 (Cuyahoga River)
- Bluegill - 6 (Ira Beaver Marsh)
- Pumpkinseed - 1 (Ira Beaver Marsh)
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 11 SPECIES.
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
- Cabbage Butterfly - 22
- Clouded Sulphur - 2
- Summer Azure - 1
- Great Spangled Fritillary - 2
- Pearl Crescent - 9
- Red Admiral - 1
- Northern Pearly Eye - 1
- Little Wood Satyr - 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper - 2
- Least Skipper - 1
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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