JUNE 05, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monhtly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:30am-1:45pm TEMP.: 65-82-74 COND.: Overcast until 7:15am, then clouds/sun mix until 9:00am, then turning cloudy; clouds/sun mix from 9:25am on, breezy with west winds from 11:00am on, then turning cloudy again with sprinkles at 1:20pm changing to steady rain from 1:35pm-1:45pm. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 65 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 4. Red Squirrel - 11 II. BIRDS: 80 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 19 (9 goslings) 2. Wood Duck - 8 (1f,1?,6 ducklings) 3. Mallard - 20 (6m,4f,3?,1*,6 ducklings) 4. Great Blue Heron - 13 5. Turkey Vulture - 10 6. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f) 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (carrying a bullfrog) 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 9. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f) 10. Killdeer - 4 11. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 12. Rock Pigeon - 3 13. Mourning Dove - 14 14. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray phase) 15. Chimney Swift - 11 16. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 (1m,1f,1*) 17. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,1?,2*) 18. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 19. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (2m,2f,1?,5* - 1 nest in elm tree) 20. Downy Woodpecker - 18 (5f,11 juveniles,2*) 21. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (1f,1*) 22. Northern Flicker - 6 (1m,5*) 23. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*) 24. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 11 25. Acadian Flycatcher - 4 26. Willow Flycatcher - 1 27. Eastern Phoebe - 1 (feeding 2 juv. cowbirds) 28. Great Crested Flycatcher - 10 29. Eastern Kingbird - 4 30. White-eyed Vireo - 2 31. Yellow-throated Vireo - 4 32. Blue-headed Vireo - 1 33. Warbling Vireo - 22 34. Red-eyed Vireo - 15 35. Blue Jay - 11 36. American Crow - 4 37. Tree Swallow - 4 38. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3 39. Barn Swallow - 6 40. Black-capped Chickadee - 30 (10 juveniles) 41. Tufted Titmouse - 20 (3 juveniles) 42. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 (2m,1f,2 juveniles,1?,7*) 43. Brown Creeper - 1 (singing on territory) 44. Carolina Wren - 3 45. House Wren - 7 46. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 11 (2m,1f,2?,6* - 1 building nest) 47. Eastern Bluebird - 10 (3m,1f,6 juveniles) 48. Veery - 6 49. Wood Thrush - 1 50. American Robin - 58 (1 building nest,3 juveniles) 51. Gray Catbird - 35 52. European Starling - 29 53. Cedar Waxwing - 41 (5 nests - sycamore:3, green ash:1, sugar maple:1) 54. Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (m) 55. Northern Parula - 1 (m - Deep Lock area) 56. Yellow Warbler - 38 (35m,3f) 57. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (m) 58. Yellow-throated Warbler - 3 (m) 59. Cerulean Warbler - 3 (m) 60. American Redstart - 13 (2 adult m,4 immature m,7*m) 61. Prothonotary Warbler - 1 (m) 62. Common Yellowthroat - 31 (30m,1f) 63. Hooded Warbler - 4 (m) 64. Scarlet Tanager - 7 (6m,1f) 65. Eastern Towhee - 4 (3m,1*) 66. Chipping Sparrow - 10 67. Field Sparrow - 3 68. Song Sparrow - 78 (1 pair feeding juv. cowbird) 69. Swamp Sparrow - 10 70. Northern Cardinal - 52 (33m,3f,6*,10 juveniles,1 nest) 71. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 17 (13m,3f,1* - 1 female building nest) 72. Indigo Bunting - 18 (17m,1f) 73. Red-winged Blackbird - 51 (35m,13f,3 juveniles,1 nest) 74. Common Grackle - 29 (1 juvenile) 75. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16 (12m,2f,4 juveniles) 76. Orchard Oriole - 4 (2 adult m,2*m) 77. Baltimore Oriole - 21 (19m,2f) 78. House Finch - 9 (1m,1f,3?,4*) 79. American Goldfinch - 31 (7m,6f,6?,8*) 80. House Sparrow - 18 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 15 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 11 4. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES. 1. American Toad - 1 2. Gray Treefrog - 1 (*) 3. Bullfrog - 6 4. Green Frog - 18 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 4 2. Bluegill - 3 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 4 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 64 3. Spring Azure - 9 4. Pearl Crescent - 8 5. Red-spotted Purple - 3 6. Little Wood Satyr - 11 7. Monarch - 1 8. European Skipper - 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]