OCT. 01, 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: 7:10am-5:30pm TEMP.: 55-63-59 COND.: Cloudy and cool early, turning mostly sunny, breezy. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Woodchuck - 1 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 88 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 (2 black phase) 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 5. Red Squirrel - 13 6. Muskrat - 1 7. White-tailed Deer - 2 (doe) II. BIRDS: 67 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 86 2. Wood Duck - 9 (3m,6f) 3. Mallard - 29 (19m,10f) 4. Green-winged Teal - 1 (f) 5. Great Blue Heron - 5 6. Turkey Vulture - 9 7. Osprey - 1 (over Akron composting plant) 8. Bald Eagle - 3 (adults perched in tree along Cuyahoga at old Jaite paper mill) 9. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 10 (2 immature) 11. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult m along Cuyahoga between I-271 & Turnpike) 12. Killdeer - 3 13. Ring-billed Gull - 8 14. Rock Pigeon - 10 15. Mourning Dove - 9 16. Chimney Swift - 7 17. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (2m,1f,1?) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13 (5m,4f,1?,3*) 19. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 20. Downy Woodpecker - 31 (14m,12f,3?,2*) 21. Hairy Woodpecker - 8 (1m,4f,1?,2*) 22. Northern Flicker - 5 (1m,4*) 23. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (2m,2?) 24. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 25. Eastern Phoebe - 4 26. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 27. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 28. Blue Jay - 54 29. American Crow - 122 30. Black-capped Chickadee - 46 31. Tufted Titmouse - 19 32. White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 (6m,6f,1?,3*) 33. Brown Creeper - 3 34. Carolina Wren - 8 35. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 (2f,1?,2*) 36. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (2?,1*) 37. Eastern Bluebird - 8 (2m,4f,2?) 38. Swainson's Thrush - 2 39. American Robin - 67 40. Gray Catbird - 4 41. Northern Mockingbird - 1 42. European Starling - 232 43. Cedar Waxwing - 124 44. Tennessee Warbler - 1 45. Nashville Warbler - 3 (1m,2f) 46. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (f) 47. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 61 48. Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 (m) 49. Palm Warbler - 1 50. Blackpoll Warbler - 1 51. Common Yellowthroat - 2 (f) 52. Eastern Towhee - 1 (f) 53. Field Sparrow - 1 54. Song Sparrow - 24 55. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 56. Swamp Sparrow - 5 57. White-throated Sparrow - 4 58. Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (*) 59. Northern Cardinal - 47 (11m,3 juv.m,10f,4 juv.f,16*,3 juv.*) 60. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (f) 61. Indigo Bunting - 2 (m) 62. Red-winged Blackbird - 261 (18m,5f,238? - mixed flocks) 63. Common Grackle - 4,316 64. Purple Finch - 1 (f) 65. House Finch - 5 (1f,2?,2*) 66. American Goldfinch - 26 67. House Sparrow - 42 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Red-eared Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 19 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 4 (*) 2. Bullfrog - 4 3. Green Frog - 2 V. FISHES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 2 2. Creek Chub - many 3. Northern Hog Sucker - 1 4. Largemouth Bass - 1 5. Bluegill - 11 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Pipevine Swallowtail - 1 2. Cabbage White - 5 3. Clouded Sulphur - 1 4. Pearl Crescent - 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]