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OCTOBER 01, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:25am - 4:35pm TEMP.: 57~71~69 COND.: Gray & overcast early; sun breaking through at 10:45am, turning partly sunny then mostly cloudy; light south breeze all day. TRAIL COND.: Fair; wet & muddy with puddles in some spots due to rain from previous three days; some construction fencing put up along old Jaite paper mill for contaminant clean-up at site; construction at bridge connector over trail from Akron Water Pollution Control Station to Akron Compost Facility; most fencing removed along sewer trunk line between Akron Compost Facility & Merriman Valley for E.P.A.-mandated repairs to sewer trunk line. RIVER COND.: High, swift and muddy due to previous three days of rain from stalled low front over much of Ohio; most sandbars completely covered.FT.MI.: 14.05 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 10 SPECIES, 93 INDIVIDUALS, 1 SPECIES NEW TO CENSUS.
   
   - Northern River Otter - 1 (at Ira Beaver Marsh - New Species on Census - now at 19 species since 01/01/2010)   

   - Woodchuck - 2
   - Eastern Chipmunk - 57
   - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (all black morph)
   - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
   - Red Squirrel - 20
   - American Beaver - 1
   - Common Muskrat - 1
   - Eastern Cottontail - 2
   - White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe)

II. BIRDS: 71 SPECIES, (New October High), 1,913 INDIVIDUALS.(m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
   
   - Canada Goose - 109   

   - Wood Duck - 15 (7m,8f)
   - American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f - at Ira Beaver Marsh)
   - Mallard - 11 (1m,1f,9?)
   - Wild Turkey - 13 (3m,10f - at Boston Cemetery - First October Record on Census)
   - Pied-billed Grebe - 1 (Ira Beaver Marsh)
   - Great Blue Heron - 6
   - Green Heron - 3 (1 adult,2 immature - First October Record on Census)
   - Turkey Vulture - 19
   - Bald Eagle - 1 (adult - over Ira Beaver Marsh)
   - Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (1 immature)
   - American Coot - 1 (at Ira Beaver Marsh - First October Record on Census)
   - Killdeer - 6
   - Rock Pigeon - 2
   - Mourning Dove - 13
   - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (red morph - first red morph on census, all prior have been gray morph)
   - Chimney Swift - 65
   - Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*)
   - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 26 (7m,2f,3?,14*)
   - Downy Woodpecker - 20 (6m,6f,4?,4*)
   - Hairy Woodpecker - 7 (1m,2f,4*)
   - Northern Flicker - 9 (2m,1?,6*)
   - Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1?,3*)
   - Merlin - 1 (m - atop a sycamore snag near Sand Run - Tied Census High from 7 other occasions)
   - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f - "Gatewood" at the Ohio Turnpike bridge)
   - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3
   - Eastern Phoebe - 13 (New Census High - previous was 10 on 04/2015)
   - Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (New Census High - previous was 1 on 07/2010, 07/2015 & 10/2015)
   - Blue Jay - 51
   - American Crow - 221
   - Black-capped Chickadee - 31
   - Tufted Titmouse - 9
   - White-breasted Nuthatch - 13 (2m,3f,8*)
   - Winter Wren - 1 (First October Record on Census)
   - Carolina Wren - 10
   - Eastern Bluebird - 27 (6m,7f,13?,1*)
   - Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 (Tied Census High from 05/2014, 05/2015 & 10/2015)
   - Swainson's Thrush - 4
   - American Robin - 73
   - Gray Catbird - 9
   - European Starling - 29
   - Cedar Waxwing - 201
   - Northern Waterthrush - 2
   - Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m - First October Record on Census)
   - Tennessee Warbler - 4 (2m,2f)
   - Nashville Warbler - 4 (2m,2f)
   - Common Yellowthroat - 12 (5m,3f,4*)
   - American Redstart - 5 (2m,3f)
   - Magnolia Warbler - 1 (f)
   - Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m)
   - Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (m - First October Record on Census)
   - Blackpoll Warbler - 4 
   - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 27
   - Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 (2m,3f)
   - Unidentified Warbler Fly-over - 3
   - Eastern Towhee - 1 (m)
   - Chipping Sparrow - 1
   - Field Sparrow - 3
   - Song Sparrow - 33
   - Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 (Tied Census High from 05/2010 & 10/2013)
   - Swamp Sparrow - 5
   - White-crowned Sparrow - 1
   - Scarlet Tanager - 1 (m)
   - Northern Cardinal - 35 (7m,7f,17*,4 juvenile *)
   - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (1f,3*)
   - Red-winged Blackbird - 114 (29m,11f,74?)
   - Rusty Blackbird - 3 (2m,1f)
   - Common Grackle - 447
   - Unidentified Blackbird Fly-over - 8
   - House Finch - 9 (4m,3f,2*)
   - American Goldfinch - 26
   - House Sparrow - 61
   - Unidentified Passerines - 23

III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES.
   
   - Common Snapping Turtle - 2   

   - Red-eared Turtle - 3
   - Midland Painted Turtle - 89

IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES.
   
   - Northern Spring Peeper - 21 (heard only)   

   - Bullfrog - 2
   - Green Frog - 1

V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES.
   
   - Common Carp - 2   

   - Goldfish - 3 (in water at Red Lock)
   - Creek Chub - 1
   - Pumpkinseed - 8

VI. BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES.
   
   - Cabbage Butterfly - 8   

   - Clouded Sulphur - 2
   - Viceroy - 1
   - Monarch - 3

VII. MOTHS (of note from September's census)
   
   - Large Maple Spanworm Moth - 1   

   - Ironweed Borer Moth - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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