JUNE 04, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:05am-1:45pm TEMP.: 54-89 COND.: Sunny early then clouds/sun mix until noon; then sunny, breezy & hot. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Shorttail Shrew - 2 2. Woodchuck - 1 3. Eastern Chipmunk - 84 4. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 (black phase) 5. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 6. Red Squirrel - 8 7. White-tailed Deer - 5 (1 buck,4 doe) II. BIRDS: 72 SPECIES. (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 359 2. Wood Duck - 4 (1*,3 ducklings) 3. Mallard - 6 (3m,3f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 15 5. Green Heron - 2 6. Turkey Vulture - 28 7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f) 8. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 10. Peregrine Falcon - 6 (1m,1f,4 young - the Ohio Turnpike bridge family) 11. Killdeer - 4 12. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 13. Ring-billed Gull - 4 14. Mourning Dove - 12 15. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 16. Chimney Swift - 13 17. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 (1f,2*) 18. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2?,1*) 19. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (1f,2?,11*) 20. Downy Woodpecker - 12 (2m,1f,2 juvenile,7*) 21. Northern Flicker - 5 (2?,3*,1 nest) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 7 (1m,4*,1 nest with 2 juv. males sticking out of cavity) 23. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13 24. Acadian Flycatcher - 6 25. Willow Flycatcher - 6 26. Eastern Phoebe - 4 27. Great Crested Flycatcher - 8 28. Eastern Kingbird - 3 29. Yellow-throated Vireo - 10 30. Warbling Vireo - 30 31. Red-eyed Vireo - 25 32. Blue Jay - 12 33. American Crow - 7 34. Tree Swallow - 7 35. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8 36. Bank Swallow - 4 37. Barn Swallow - 6 38. Black-capped Chickadee - 11 39. Tufted Titmouse - 11 40. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (3m,7*) 41. Carolina Wren - 2 42. House Wren - 2 43. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8 (1f,2?,5*) 44. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (1f,2*) 45. Veery - 5 46. American Robin - 62 (7 juvenile) 47. Gray Catbird - 23 48. European Starling - 21 49. Cedar Waxwing - 36 50. Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (m) 51. Yellow Warbler - 41 (39m,1f,1?) 52. Yellow-throated Warbler - 8 (m) 53. Cerulean Warbler - 3 (m) 54. American Redstart - 9 (m) 55. Prothonotary Warbler - 2 (m) 56. Common Yellowthroat - 29 (27m,2*) 57. Hooded Warbler - 12 (m) 58. Scarlet Tanager - 5 (4m,1*) 59. Chipping Sparrow - 10 60. Song Sparrow - 65 61. Swamp Sparrow - 12 62. Northern Cardinal - 52 (27m,7f,13*,5 juv. *) 63. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 12 (8m,3f,1* - 1 female building nest) 64. Indigo Bunting - 20 (19m,1f) 65. Red-winged Blackbird - 56 (39m,17f) 66. Common Grackle - 41 67. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16 (14m,2f) 68. Orchard Oriole - 7 (m) 69. Baltimore Oriole - 19 (15m,3f,1* - 1 nest) 70. House Finch - 2 (1m,1f) 71. American Goldfinch - 19 (9m,4?,6*) 72. House Sparrow - 31 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 4 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 13 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 7 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 2 2. Green Frog - 26 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 3 2. Creek Chub - about 30 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 11 2. Spicebush Swallowtail - 1 3. Cabbage Butterfly - 2 4. Summer Azure - 1 5. Pearl Crescent - 1 6. Question Mark - 1 7. Little Wood Satyr - 10 8. Silver-spotted Skipper - 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]