SEPTEMBER 04, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:50am-2:00pm TEMP.: 59-67-64 COND.: Cloudy, breezy and cool until 8:00am, then clouds/sun mix then clouding up with light sprinkles from 11:15am-11:25am then clouds/sun mix turning mostly cloudy from 12:30pm-2:00pm, breezy all day. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 35 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 4. Red Squirrel - 4 5. Muskrat - 1 (young) 6. White-tailed Deer - 8 (5 doe,3 fawn) II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 74 >. Greylag/Domestic Goose - 1 2. Wood Duck - 25 (12m,13f) 3. Mallard - 7 (2m,1f,4?) 4. Double-crested Cormorant - 4 5. Great Blue Heron - 7 6. Turkey Vulture - 6 7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. f) 8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 10. Killdeer - 5 11. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 12. Rock Pigeon - 5 13. Mourning Dove - 12 14. Chimney Swift - 64 15. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 (1f,1?,1*) 16. Belted Kingfisher - 5 (1f,4*) 17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 (1m,1 juv. m,2f,2?,3*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (2m,3f,4*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1f,1?,2*) 21. Northern Flicker - 1 (*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1m,2*) 23. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5 24. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 25. Least Flycatcher - 1 >. Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 26. Eastern Phoebe - 2 27. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 28. Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 29. Warbling Vireo - 3 30. Red-eyed Vireo - 4 31. Blue Jay - 22 32. American Crow - 11 33. Black-capped Chickadee - 28 34. Tufted Titmouse - 19 35. White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 (5m,1f,1?,9*) 36. Brown Creeper - 1 37. Carolina Wren - 4 38. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (*) 39. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 (1f,2?) 40. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (f) 41. American Robin - 41 (4 juvenile) 42. Gray Catbird - 15 43. European Starling - 144 44. Cedar Waxwing - 206 45. Tennessee Warbler - 2 46. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (f) 47. Blackburnian Warbler - 2 (m) 48. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 49. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (*) 50. Hooded Warbler - 1 (m) 51. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (m) 52. Song Sparrow - 4 53. Northern Cardinal - 47 (6m,3juv. m,8f,2juv. f,21*,7 juv.*) 54. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (*) 55. Red-winged Blackbird - 42 (6m,36?) 56. Common Grackle - 23 57. Purple Finch - 1 (m) 58. House Finch - 3 (2?,1*) 59. American Goldfinch - 28 (13m,5f,3?,7*) 60. House Sparrow - 11 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 1 2. Eastern Garter Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Green Frog - 1 V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 2 2. Creek Chub - 1 3. Largemouth Bass - 6 4. Bluegill - 1 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 7 3. Pearl Crescent - 1 4. Red-spotted Purple - 1 5. Monarch - 2 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]