APRIL 26, 2009 - C.V.N.P. Towpath Trail from Merriman/Riverview Rds. north to Bolanz Rd. TIME: 7:25am-12:00pm TEMP.: 57-84 COND.: Warm early, sunny, blue skies, unseasonably warm throughout the day. FT.MI.: 4.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 25 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 6 3. Red Squirrel - 2 II. BIRDS: 65 SPECIES. (? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 29 (1 pair with 6 goslings at Marc Moon painting) 2. Wood Duck - 6 (4m,2f) 3. Mallard - 6 (4m,2f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 11 5. Great Egret - 2 (pair heading west over compost facility) 6. Turkey Vulture - 14 7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. m) 8. Broad-winged Hawk - 2 (soaring above compost facility) 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 10. Killdeer - 5 11. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 12. Ring-billed Gull - 4 13. Rock Pigeon - 4 14. Mourning Dove - 8 15. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1f,1?,1*) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 (1?,4*) 17. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 18. Downy Woodpecker - 11 (2m,2f,7*, 1 excavating hole) 19. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (f) 20. Northern Flicker - 6 (2m,1f,1?,2*, 1 pair mating) 21. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) 22. Eastern Phoebe - 4 23. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 24. White-eyed Vireo - 3 25. Warbling Vireo - 8 26. Blue Jay - 18 27. American Crow - 10 28. Tree Swallow - 6 (1 carrying feather to nest hole) 29. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8 (1 carrying nest material to nest) 30. Barn Swallow - 2 31. Black-capped Chickadee - 25 (1 excavating hole in stump) 32. Tufted Titmouse - 13 33. White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (2m,1*) 34. House Wren - 1 35. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (m) 36. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 6 (1m,1?,4*) 37. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (1m,1f) 38. Wood Thrush - 1 39. American Robin - 54 40. Gray Catbird - 2 41. Brown Thrasher - 1 42. European Starling - 25 43. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 44. Yellow Warbler - 27 (26m,1f) 45. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (m) 46. Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 (2m,1f) 47. Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (m) 48. Prothonotary Warbler - 2 (m - both just north of Ira beaver marsh) 49. Northern Waterthrush - 1 50. Eastern Towhee - 6 (m) 51. Chipping Sparrow - 5 52. Song Sparrow - 29 53. Swamp Sparrow - 4 54. White-throated Sparrow - 2 55. Northern Cardinal - 35 (29m,5f,1*) 56. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (m) 57. Red-winged Blackbird - 37 (30m,7f) 58. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (high fly-over at composting facility) 59. Rusty Blackbird - 2 (*) 60. Common Grackle - 33 61. Brown-headed Cowbird - 21 (16m,5f) 62. Baltimore Oriole - 1 (m) 63. House Finch - 8 (3m,1f,1?,3*) 64. American Goldfinch - 35 (26m,7f,2*) 65. House Sparrow - 10 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 112 2. Northern Water Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES. 1. American Toad - 1 (+ many calling) 2. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (*) 3. Bullfrog - 1 4. Green Frog - 6 V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Golden Shiner - 4 2. Creek Chub - 13 3. Largemouth Bass - 2 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 9 2. Mourning Cloak - 2 Also - 1 Yellow-throated Vireo later in the day at Columbia Rd. & 3 Green Herons flying together around 7:30pm in Merriman Valley. Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]