APRIL 19, 2008 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park HIKE: Park at the Jaite Wayside & hike the Cuyahoga Valley Line R.R. tracks north to Station Rd. parking lot, connect up with the Towpath Trail & hike it south to Vaughn Rd. & back to the Jaite Wayside. TIME: 6:30am - 10:45am TEMP.: 46-77 COND.: Cool early, warming throughout, sunny with blue skies. FT.MI.: 4.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 2 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 1 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 (4 black phase) 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 5. Muskrat - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 15 II. BIRDS: 58 SPECIES. (?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 59 2. Wood Duck - 3 (2m,1f) 3. Mallard - 16 (11m,5f) 4. Green-winged Teal - 4 (2m,2f) 4a. Eurasian/Common Teal - 1 (m) 5. Wild Turkey - 2 (* - gobbling) 6. Double-crested Cormorant - 1 7. Great Blue Heron - 15 8. Turkey Vulture - 4 9. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 10. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 11. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 12. American Kestrel - 1 (m) 13. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 14. Herring Gull - 1 15. Mourning Dove - 3 16. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (f) 17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1?,4*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 13 (3m,6f,1?,3*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (f) 21. Northern Flicker - 9 (3m,1f,5*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1?,1*,1 drumming) 23. Eastern Phoebe - 5 24. Blue-headed Vireo - 1 25. Blue Jay - 14 26. American Crow - 8 (1 pair building nest) 27. Tree Swallow - 9 28. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8 29. Black-capped Chickadee - 19 (1 nest) 30. Tufted Titmouse - 17 31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 (1m,1?,5*) 32. Brown Creeper - 2 33. Carolina Wren - 5 34. House Wren - 2 35. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 (1m,4f) 36. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 13 (4m,1f,2?,5*) 37. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (m) 38. Hermit Thrush - 1 39. American Robin - 16 40. Brown Thrasher - 1 41. European Starling - 11 42. Yellow Warbler - 1 (m) 43. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (1m,1*) 44. Yellow-throated Warbler - 6 (m) 45. Northern Waterthrush - 1 46. Chipping Sparrow - 3 47. Field Sparrow - 3 48. Savannah Sparrow - 2 49. Song Sparrow - 41 50. Swamp Sparrow - 11 51. White-throated Sparrow - 5 52. Northern Cardinal - 34 (21m,8f,5*) 53. Red-winged Blackbird - 69 (57m,12f) 54. Rusty Blackbird - 1 (m) 55. Common Grackle - 5 56. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 (9m,3f) 57. House Finch - 4 (3m,1f) 58. American Goldfinch - 26 (21m,3f,2*) III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 14 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 6 SPECIES. 1. American Toad - (7, plus * many) 2. Northern Spring Peeper - (* - many) 3. Western Chorus Frog - (2*) 4. Northern Leopard Frog - (6*) 5. Green Frog - 2 6. Bullfrog - 1 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - about a dozen 2. Creek Chub - many Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]