AUGUST 05, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 5:50am-2:00pm TEMP.: 66~92 COND.: Bright, clouds/sun mix, turning hot & humid with light, south breeze. TRAIL COND.: Dry & ideal. RIVER COND.: Muddy from last week's thunderstorm, but still very low with many rock & sandbars exposed. FT.MI.: 13.63 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 10 SPECIES, 48 INDIVIDUALS, 1 SPECIES NEW TO CENSUS.
   
   - Little Brown Myotis - 1
   - Striped Skunk - 1  (New Species on Census - now at 18 Mammals total since 01/01/2010)
   - Woodchuck - 1  (First August Record on Census)
   - Eastern Chipmunk - 17
   - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black morph)
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2
   - Red Squirrel - 16
   - Beaver - 1
   - Eastern Cottontail - 1
   - White-tailed Deer - 6 (10-pt buck,8-pt buck,2 doe,2 fawn)

II. BIRDS: 64 SPECIES (New August High - previous was 63 in 2015), 796 INDIVIDUALS.
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
   
   - Canada Goose - 3   

   - Wood Duck - 34 (2m,1f,4 juvenile m,12 juvenile f,15 unknown juvenile)
   - Mallard - 15 (5f,10 juvenile)
   - Great Blue Heron - 12
   - Green Heron - 6 (2 juvenile)
   - Turkey Vulture - 12
   - Broad-winged Hawk - 2  (Tied Census High from 06/2012, 08/2013 & 09/2015)
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 9 (2 juvenile)
   - Killdeer - 11
   - Spotted Sandpiper - 4
   - Solitary Sandpiper - 1
   - American Woodcock - 1  (First August Record on Census)
   - Rock Pigeon - 2
   - Mourning Dove - 10
   - Great Horned Owl - 1 (calling at Red Lock - First August Record on Census & Tied Census High from 03/2016)
   - Chimney Swift - 26
   - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (1f,1*)
   - Belted Kingfisher - 5 (2m,1f,1?,1*)
   - Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (1 juvenile)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (5*,1 juvenile)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 11 (5m,3f,3*)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (1f,1?,3*)
   - Northern Flicker - 8 (2m,1f,1?,4*)
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
   - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - "Rocky" at the Ohio Turnpike bridge)
   - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 7
   - Acadian Flycatcher - 2
   - Eastern Phoebe - 2
   - Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
   - Eastern Kingbird - 4
   - White-eyed Vireo - 1
   - Red-eyed Vireo - 6
   - Blue Jay - 28 (2 juvenile)
   - American Crow - 10
   - Purple Martin - 2
   - Tree Swallow - 25
   - Barn Swallow - 9
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 13
   - Tufted Titmouse - 11
   - Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (m - First August Record on Census & Tied Census High from 10/2011)
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 15 (2m,3?,10*)
   - House Wren - 1
   - Carolina Wren - 7
   - Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m)
   - American Robin - 46 (6 juvenile)
   - Gray Catbird - 18
   - European Starling - 15
   - Cedar Waxwing - 19 (4 juvenile)
   - Common Yellowthroat - 7 (1m,1?,5*)
   - Hooded Warbler - 3 (m)
   - Yellow Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Eastern Towhee - 2 (1m,1*)
   - Field Sparrow - 2
   - Song Sparrow - 14
   - Swamp Sparrow - 5
   - Scarlet Tanager - 3 (2m,1f)
   - Northern Cardinal - 26 (9m,5f,9*,3 juvenile *)
   - Indigo Bunting - 3 (2m,1f)
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 12 (4m,6f,2?)
   - Common Grackle - 35
   - Orchard Oriole - 2 (f - First August Record on Census)
   - House Finch - 1 (m)
   - American Goldfinch - 31 (19m,3f,1?,8*)
   - House Sparrow - 4
   - Unidentified Passerines - 12

III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.

   
   - Common Snapping Turtle - 6   

   - Midland Painted Turtle - 62
   - Eastern Spiny Softshell - 3

IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.

   
   - Gray Treefrog - 1   

   - Green Frog - 6

V. FISHES: 5 SPECIES.

   
   - Common Carp - 2   

   - Creek Chub - 63
   - Northern Hog Sucker - 6
   - Largemouth Bass - 1
   - Bluegill - 6 (2 caught by Green Herons)

VI. BUTTERFLIES: 10 SPECIES.

   
   - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 6   

   - Cabbage Butterfly - 23   

   - Summer Azure - 1
   - Pearl Crescent - 3
   - Question Mark - 1
   - Eastern Comma - 1
   - Viceroy - 1
   - Northern Pearly Eye - 1
   - Monarch - 5
   - Silver-spotted Skipper - 6

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.



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