AUGUST 29, 2010 - Metro Parks, Serving Summit County - Sand Run to Towpath. HIKE: Valley Link Trail in Sand Run thru the Parcours Trail, Valley Link Trail to the Towpath Trail south to the Cuyahoga River/Little Cuyahoga River junction and back. TIME: 9:00am-11:20am TEMP.: 61-84 COND.: Sunny, blue skies, warm. FT.MI.: 4.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Woodchuck - 1 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 19 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 4. White-tailed Deer - 3 (1 doe,2 fawn with spots almost gone) II. BIRDS: 28 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 12 2. Green Heron - 1 (juvenile) 3. Mourning Dove - 7 4. Chimney Swift - 3 5. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 (1f,3*) 6. Downy Woodpecker - 6 (1f,5*) 7. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (*) 8. Northern Flicker - 1 (*) 9. Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 (south of Valley View G.C. above sewer line) 10. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 11. Acadian Flycatcher - 1 12. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 13. Red-eyed Vireo - 2 14. Blue Jay - 10 15. Black-capped Chickadee - 11 16. Tufted Titmouse - 7 17. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (*) 18. Carolina Wren - 1 19. American Robin - 11 (3 juvenile) 20. Gray Catbird - 10 21. European Starling - 2 22. Cedar Waxwing - 2 23. Hooded Warbler - 2 (m) 24. Song Sparrow - 1 25. Northern Cardinal - 14 (4m,7f,1juvf,1*juv.,1*) 26. Common Grackle - 18 27. American Goldfinch - 5 (3m,2*) 28. House Sparrow - 1 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 3 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (*) 2. Bullfrog - 3 3. Green Frog - 1 V. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 7 2. Clouded Sulphur - 1 3. Summer Azure - 1 4. Red Admiral - 1 5. Red-spotted Purple - 1 6. Monarch - 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]