MAY 09, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park. HIKE: Buckeye Trail from Jaite south to Boston Mills Rd., Boston Mills Rd. east to Towpath Trail south to Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad tracks south to Lock 29. TIME: 6:30am-12:30pm TEMP.: 39-68 COND.: Cool & foggy early; fog burning off, warming throughout; mostly sunny & warm. FT.MI.: 7.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 1 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 47 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 6 (1 black phase) 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 5. Red Squirrel - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 5 (doe) II. BIRDS: 70 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 10 2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f) 3. Mallard - 1 (m) 4. Turkey Vulture - 3 5. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 6. Killdeer - 1 7. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 8. Mourning Dove - 6 9. Chimney Swift - 14 10. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 (2m,2?,5*) 11. Downy Woodpecker - 5 (1m,2f,1?,1*) 12. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*) 13. Northern Flicker - 3 (1m,2*) 14. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1m,2*) 15. Eastern Phoebe - 1 16. Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 17. Eastern Kingbird - 3 18. Yellow-throated Vireo - 5 19. Blue-headed Vireo - 1 20. Warbling Vireo - 6 21. Red-eyed Vireo - 6 22. Blue Jay - 16 23. American Crow - 4 24. Tree Swallow - 3 25. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 26. Barn Swallow - 5 27. Black-capped Chickadee - 16 28. Tufted Titmouse - 17 29. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 (3m,3*) 30. Carolina Wren - 1 31. House Wren - 3 32. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1?,1*) 33. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 7 (2m,2f,3* - 1 nest) 34. Veery - 1 35. Swainson's Thrush - 4 36. Hermit Thrush - 1 37. Wood Thrush - 7 38. American Robin - 23 (1 nest) 39. Gray Catbird - 5 40. European Starling - 4 41. Nashville Warbler - 2 (m) 42. Yellow Warbler - 16 (12m,4f) 43. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (m) 44. Magnolia Warbler - 2 (m) 45. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (m) 46. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 18 (11m,7f) 47. Black-throated Green Warbler - 6 (m) 48. Cerulean Warbler - 2 (m) 49. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m) 50. American Redstart - 7 (m) 51. Ovenbird - 5 52. Northern Waterthrush - 1 53. Common Yellowthroat - 3 (m) 54. Hooded Warbler - 2 (m) 55. Scarlet Tanager - 8 (6m,1f,1*) 56. Eastern Towhee - 4 (2m,1f,1*) 57. Chipping Sparrow - 3 58. Field Sparrow - 9 59. Song Sparrow - 9 60. White-throated Sparrow - 4 61. Northern Cardinal - 15 (12m,2f,1*) 62. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 9 (7m,1f,1*) 63. Red-winged Blackbird - 15 (14m,1f) 64. Common Grackle - 4 65. Brown-headed Cowbird - 9 (m) 66. Baltimore Oriole - 14 (12m,2f) 67. House Finch - 6 (1f,2?,3*) 68. Pine Siskin - 2 69. American Goldfinch - 13 (8m,1f,4*) 70. House Sparrow - 4 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 2 2. Red-eared Turtle - 1 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 47 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Green Frog - 1 V. BUTTERFLIES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 5 2. Wild Indigo Duskywing - 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]