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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