MAY 07, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:05am-2:40pm TEMP.: 44-66-64 COND.: Cloudy & cool early changing to clouds/sun mix; then mostly cloudy with light sprinkles last 40 minutes. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Pete McNeil, Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Coyote - 2 (one tagged & collared) 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 29 3. Red Squirrel - 5 4. Eastern Cottontail - 1 5. White-tailed Deer - 11 II. BIRDS: 90 SPECIES, 1 Exotic/Escape (e). (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 41 e. Greylag Goose - 1 2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f) 3. Mallard - 7 (6m,1f) 4. Double-crested Cormorant - 7 5. Great Blue Heron - 12 6. Turkey Vulture - 12 7. Osprey - 1 8. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) 9. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 11. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) 12. Virginia Rail - 1 13. Killdeer - 3 14. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 15. Solitary Sandpiper - 2 16. Ring-billed Gull - 2 17. Rock Pigeon - 1 18. Mourning Dove - 11 19. Chimney Swift - 10 20. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m) 21. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 22. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 (1m,2?,5*) 23. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,3f,2?,3*) 24. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (1f,1?) 25. Northern Flicker - 8 (2m,1f,5*,1 nest) 26. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*) 27. Eastern Phoebe - 4 28. Great Crested Flycatcher - 4 29. Eastern Kingbird - 4 30. White-eyed Vireo - 4 31. Yellow-throated Vireo - 6 32. Warbling Vireo - 10 33. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 34. Blue Jay - 15 35. American Crow - 6 36. Tree Swallow - 4 37. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 7 38. Barn Swallow - 6 39. Black-capped Chickadee - 21 40. Tufted Titmouse - 10 41. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (2m,3*) 42. Carolina Wren - 1 43. House Wren - 8 44. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (?) 45. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 14 (2m,1f,3?,8*) 46. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m) 47. American Robin - 32 (1 nest w/2 chicks) 48. Gray Catbird - 18 49. European Starling - 13 50. Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (m) 51. Nashville Warbler - 2 (m) 52. Northern Parula - 1 (m) 53. Yellow Warbler - 32 (26m,6f) 54. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (m) 55. Magnolia Warbler - 1 (m) 56. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (m) 57. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 17 (5m,11f,1*) 58. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (m) 59. Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m) 60. Yellow-throated Warbler - 4 (m) 61. Palm Warbler - 6 62. Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m) 63. Cerulean Warbler - 2 (m) 64. Black-and-white Warbler - 4 (m) 65. American Redstart - 6 (m) 66. Prothonotary Warbler - 2 (m) 67. Ovenbird - 2 68. Northern Waterthrush - 2 69. Common Yellowthroat - 18 (m) 70. Hooded Warbler - 2 (m) 71. Scarlet Tanager - 1 (m) 72. Eastern Towhee - 3 (m) 73. Chipping Sparrow - 7 74. Field Sparrow - 2 75. Song Sparrow - 27 76. Swamp Sparrow - 7 77. White-throated Sparrow - 2 78. White-crowned Sparrow - 5 79. Northern Cardinal - 31 (25m,3f,3*) 80. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 25 (18m,4f,3*) 81. Indigo Bunting - 4 (m) 82. Red-winged Blackbird - 67 (57m,10f) 83. Rusty Blackbird - 20 (1m,1f,18 mixed flock) 84. Common Grackle - 28 85. Brown-headed Cowbird - 11 (9m,2f) 86. Orchard Oriole - 7 (4m,2 imm. m,1f) 87. Baltimore Oriole - 19 (18m,1f) 88. House Finch - 3 (*) 89. American Goldfinch - 20 (14m,4f,1?,1*) 90. House Sparrow - 15 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 187 3. Northern Water Snake - 1 4. Eastern Garter Snake - 3 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (*) 2. Western Chorus Frog - 2 (*) 3. Gray Treefrog - 1 (*) 4. Bullfrog - 3 5. Green Frog - 5 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - 4 2. Hornyhead Chub - 1 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 6 2. Question Mark - 1 3. Red Admiral - 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]