MAY 08, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:00am-3:20pm TEMP.: 50-55-47 COND.: Cloudy and breezy early, light rain turning to steady rain from 9:30am to 10:45am; light rain from 12:30pm to 12:45pm; gusty and overcast the rest of day, front from the west. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 15 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 (2 black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 4. Red Squirrel - 5 5. Beaver - 1 6. Muskrat - 3 7. Eastern Cottontail - 1 8. White-tailed Deer - 2 (doe) II. BIRDS: 86 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 51 (2 goslings) >. Feral/Domestic "Barnyard Goose" - 1 2. Wood Duck - 6 (5m,1*) 3. Mallard - 27 (14m,4f,9 ducklings) 4. Great Blue Heron - 18 5. Great Egret - 1 6. Turkey Vulture - 12 7. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) 8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 9. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 11. Killdeer - 9 12. Spotted Sandpiper - 3 13. Solitary Sandpiper - 3 14. Rock Pigeon - 2 15. Mourning Dove - 15 16. Chimney Swift - 20 17. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?) 18. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1f,1?) 19. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (5m,1?,4*) 20. Downy Woodpecker - 10 (1m,2f,2?,5*) 21. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1*) 22. Northern Flicker - 6 (1m,2f,1?,2*) 23. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1?,2*) 24. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 25. Eastern Phoebe - 2 26. Great Crested Flycatcher - 11 27. Eastern Kingbird - 3 28. White-eyed Vireo - 1 29. Yellow-throated Vireo - 3 30. Warbling Vireo - 11 31. Red-eyed Vireo - 17 32. Blue Jay - 21 33. American Crow - 49 34. Tree Swallow - 16 35. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 33 36. Bank Swallow - 8 37. Barn Swallow - 96 38. Black-capped Chickadee - 17 39. Tufted Titmouse - 7 40. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 (2m,1?,1*) 41. Carolina Wren - 3 42. House Wren - 10 43. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 14 (2m,1f,2?,9*) 44. Eastern Bluebird - 4 (2m,2f) 45. Veery - 2 46. Wood Thrush - 1 47. American Robin - 63 48. Gray Catbird - 18 49. European Starling - 17 50. Blue-winged Warbler - 3 (m) 51. Tennessee Warbler - 4 (m) 52. Northern Parula - 1 (m) 53. Yellow Warbler - 48 (40m,5f,2?,1*) 54. Magnolia Warbler - 1 (m) 55. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 (1f,2*) 56. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (m) 57. Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 (m) 58. Cerulean Warbler - 1 (m) 59. Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (m) 60. American Redstart - 13 (all adult males) 61. Prothonotary Warbler - 2 (m) 62. Ovenbird - 1 63. Northern Waterthrush - 4 64. Common Yellowthroat - 24 (m) 65. Hooded Warbler - 9 (m) 66. Wilson's Warbler - 1 (m) 67. Scarlet Tanager - 9 (7m,1f,1*) 68. Eastern Towhee - 3 (m) 69. Chipping Sparrow - 11 70. Field Sparrow - 1 71. Song Sparrow - 61 72. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 73. Swamp Sparrow - 6 74. White-throated Sparrow - 29 75. White-crowned Sparrow - 2 76. Northern Cardinal - 62 (42m,11f,9* - 1 nest) 77. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 31 (21m,8f,2*) 78. Indigo Bunting - 24 (m) 79. Red-winged Blackbird - 59 (45m,14f) 80. Common Grackle - 33 81. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 (11m,1f) 82. Orchard Oriole - 3 (2m,1 imm. m) 83. Baltimore Oriole - 26 (24m,2f - 1f building nest) 84. House Finch - 8 (4m,2f,1?,1*) 85. American Goldfinch - 48 (31m,15f,2*) 86. House Sparrow - 11 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 3 (*) 2. Green Frog - 2 3. Bullfrog - 1 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]