AUGUST 08, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:00am-12:40pm TEMP.: 59-88-86 COND.: Low fog until 7:00am; turning hot, sunny with blue skies; winds light and variable. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES. 1. Little Brown Myotis - 3 2. Big Brown Bat - 1 3. Coyote - 1 4. Eastern Chipmunk - 24 5. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 6. Red Squirrel - 5 7. Eastern Cottontail - 1 8. White-tailed Deer - 13 (6-pt.,3-pt,spike buck,6 doe,2 fawn,2 unknown) II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 8 2. Wood Duck - 14 (5m,1juv.m,7f,1duckling) 3. Mallard - 6 (3m,3f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 6 5. Green Heron - 1 6. Turkey Vulture - 3 7. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 juvenile) 8. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (juvenile f) 9. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 10. Rock Pigeon - 15 11. Mourning Dove - 13 (1 on nest) 12. Chimney Swift - 12 13. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1f,2*) 14. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 (2 juvenile) 15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 (*) 16. Downy Woodpecker - 10 (1m,1f,8*) 17. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (*) 18. Northern Flicker - 5 (1?,4*) 19. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) 20. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 9 21. Acadian Flycatcher - 2 22. Eastern Phoebe - 6 23. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 24. Eastern Kingbird - 2 25. White-eyed Vireo - 1 26. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 27. Warbling Vireo - 2 28. Red-eyed Vireo - 4 29. Blue Jay - 19 30. American Crow - 9 31. Tree Swallow - 5 32. Barn Swallow - 4 33. Black-capped Chickadee - 26 34. Tufted Titmouse - 19 35. White-breasted Nuthatch - 11 (1m,1f,9*) 36. Carolina Wren - 4 37. House Wren - 2 38. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (?) 39. Eastern Bluebird - 6 (1m,1f,4 juvenile) 40. American Robin - 67 (4 juvenile) 41. Gray Catbird - 19 42. European Starling - 19 43. Cedar Waxwing - 41 (2 juvenile) 44. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (f) 45. Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (m) 46. Common Yellowthroat - 13 (4m,9*) 47. Scarlet Tanager - 3 (1f,2*) 48. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 49. Chipping Sparrow - 3 (1 juvenile) 50. Song Sparrow - 21 (4 juvenile) 51. Swamp Sparrow - 5 52. Northern Cardinal - 57 (29m,8f,16*,4* juv.) 53. Indigo Bunting - 10 (9m,1*) 54. Red-winged Blackbird - 10 (1m,4f,4?,1 juv.) 55. Common Grackle - 31 56. Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 (1m,2f) 57. Baltimore Oriole - 1 (m) 58. House Finch - 1 (*) 59. American Goldfinch - 40 (20m,1f,8?,11*) 60. House Sparrow - 8 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 26 2. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 6 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Gray Treefrog - 2 (*) 2. Bullfrog - 6 3. Green Frog - 14 V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 4 2. Creek Chub - 8 3. Largemouth Bass - 7 4. Bluegill - 23 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 9 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 27 3. Clouded Sulphur - 3 4. Summer Azure - 1 5. Pearl Crescent - 3 6. Question Mark - 3 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]