APRIL 17, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park - Towpath Trail from Ira Rd. to boardwalk. TIME: 7:30am-9:05pm TEMP.: 37 COND.: Cloudy and breezy. OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 1 2. Muskrat - 1 3. White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe) II. BIRDS: 37 SPECIES,1 Exotic/Escape (e). (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 11 (1 nest) e. Greylag Goose - 1 2. Wood Duck - 7 (4m,3f) 3. Mallard - 3 (2m,1f) 4. Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult,1 juvenile - soaring over Bender Barn on eastern ridge) 5. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 6. Killdeer - 1 7. Mourning Dove - 2 8. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*) 9. Downy Woodpecker - 2 (1f,1*) 10. Northern Flicker - 2 (*) 11. Blue Jay - 2 12. American Crow - 3 13. Tree Swallow - 24 (one taking nest material to tree hole) 14. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 22 15. Black-capped Chickadee - 4 16. Tufted Titmouse - 2 17. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (m, 1 nest cavity) 18. House Wren - 1 19. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (m) 20. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 (?) 21. American Robin - 6 (1 gathering nesting material) 22. European Starling - 1 23. Yellow Warbler - 1 (m) 24. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 (2m,3f) 25. Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 (m) 26. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m) 27. Chipping Sparrow - 1 28. Song Sparrow - 3 29. Swamp Sparrow - 4 30. White-throated Sparrow - 2 31. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (f) 32. Northern Cardinal - 8 (5m,3f) 33. Red-winged Blackbird - 9 (7m,2f) 34. Common Grackle - 8 35. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (m) 36. Pine Siskin - 2 37. American Goldfinch - 3 III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 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]