JULY 02, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:15am-1:15am TEMP.: 64-86 COND.: Light rain/sprinkles until 7:15am; cloudy & overcast, turning partly sunny, then clouding back up at 11:40 & slightly breezy, turning warm. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 40 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 3. Red Squirrel - 4 4. White-tailed Deer - 9 (2 buck,6 doe,1 fawn) II. BIRDS: 74 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 1 2. Wood Duck - 13 (2f,11 ducklings) 3. Mallard - 3 (2m,1f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 11 (1 juvenile eating a duckling) 5. Turkey Vulture - 6 6. Osprey - 1 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 (1 adult with 2 juveniles) 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (juvenile) 9. Rock Pigeon - 4 10. Mourning Dove - 11 11. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 12. Chimney Swift - 6 13. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (*) 14. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,2*) 15. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (4m,1f,1?,2*,2 juvenile) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 8 (1f,6*,1 juvenile *) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,2*,1 juvenile) 19. Northern Flicker - 6 (1?,5*) 20. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) 21. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 9 22. Acadian Flycatcher - 4 23. Willow Flycatcher - 2 24. Eastern Phoebe - 3 25. Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 26. Eastern Kingbird - 3 27. Yellow-throated Vireo - 4 28. Warbling Vireo - 17 29. Red-eyed Vireo - 14 30. Blue Jay - 25 (6 juvenile) 31. American Crow - 9 32. Tree Swallow - 8 (1 juvenile) 33. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 9 34. Barn Swallow - 5 (1 nest) 35. Black-capped Chickadee - 28 (9 juvenile) 36. Tufted Titmouse - 27 (6 juvenile) 37. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (1?,4*) 38. Carolina Wren - 1 39. House Wren - 2 40. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 11 (6?,4*,1 juvenile) 41. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (juvenile) 42. Veery - 3 43. Wood Thrush - 1 44. American Robin - 75 (3 juvenile) 45. Gray Catbird - 38 46. European Starling - 126 47. Cedar Waxwing - 11 (1 nest) 48. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 49. Northern Parula - 1 (m) 50. Yellow Warbler - 12 (9m,1f,1?,1*) 51. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (m) 52. Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (m) 53. Cerulean Warbler - 1 (m) 54. American Redstart - 3 (m) 55. Ovenbird - 1 56. Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 57. Common Yellowthroat - 37 (35m,1*,1 juvenile) 58. Hooded Warbler - 6 (m) 59. Scarlet Tanager - 8 (m) 60. Eastern Towhee - 3 (m) 61. Chipping Sparrow - 7 62. Song Sparrow - 66 (1 juvenile) 63. Swamp Sparrow - 17 64. Northern Cardinal - 55 (36m,7f,7*,5 juvenile *) 65. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (1m,1f,1*) 66. Indigo Bunting - 23 (22m,1f) 67. Red-winged Blackbird - 54 (39m,15f) 68. Common Grackle - 21 69. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 (7m,3f,2 juvenile - 1 juv. being fed by C. Yellowthroat) 70. Orchard Oriole - 1 (m) 71. Baltimore Oriole - 6 (3m,1*,2 juvenile) 72. House Finch - 1 (*) 73. American Goldfinch - 20 (8m,1f,11*) 74. House Sparrow - 32 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 7 2. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 4 3. Northern Water Snake - 1 4. Eastern Garter Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES. 1. American Toad - 1 2. Gray Treefrog - 4 3. Bullfrog - 4 4. Green Frog - many V. FISHES; 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 2 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 18 3. Great Spangled Fritillary - 2 4. Pearl Crescent - 1 5. Mourning Cloak - 1 6. Little Wood Satyr - 1 7. Silver-spotted Skipper - 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]