SEPTEMBER 03, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:40am-12:30pm TEMP.: 67-95-94 COND.: Foggy early, burning off & giving way to sunny, hot & humid. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 34 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 (black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 4. Red Squirrel - 7 5. Beaver - 1 6. Muskrat - 1 7. White-tailed Deer - 11 (8 doe,3 fawn) II. BIRDS: 52 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 22 2. Wood Duck - 10 (4m,6f) 3. Double-crested Cormorant - 34 4. Great Blue Heron - 5 5. Green Heron - 1 (immature) 6. Turkey Vulture - 5 7. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1m,1 juv. f) 8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 10. Virginia Rail - 1 11. Killdeer - 4 12. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 13. Rock Pigeon - 30 14. Mourning Dove - 3 15. Chimney Swift - 42 16. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 (1m,2f,1?) 17. Belted Kingfisher - 5 (2m,1f,2?) 18. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 19. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 (1m,1?,5*) 20. Downy Woodpecker - 7 (2?,5*) 21. Northern Flicker - 1 (*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) 23. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5 24. Acadian Flycatcher - 1 25. Eastern Phoebe - 1 26. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 27. Warbling Vireo - 21 28. Red-eyed Vireo - 2 29. Blue Jay - 21 30. American Crow - 14 31. Tree Swallow - 10 32. Black-capped Chickadee - 13 33. Tufted Titmouse - 9 34. White-breasted Nuthatch - 12 (*) 35. Carolina Wren - 6 36. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*) 37. American Robin - 17 38. Gray Catbird - 9 39. European Starling - 41 40. Cedar Waxwing - 9 41. Common Yellowthroat - 5 (1 juv. m,1f,1 juv. f,2*) 42. Hooded Warbler - 1 (m) 43. Scarlet Tanager - 3 (1m,2f) 44. Field Sparrow - 1 45. Song Sparrow - 5 46. Swamp Sparrow - 1 47. Northern Cardinal - 32 (9m,4f,13*,6 juv.*) 48. Red-winged Blackbird - 38 (36m,1?,1*) 49. Common Grackle - 14 50. House Finch - 2 (*) 51. American Goldfinch - 21 (3m,3f,2?,13*) 52. House Sparrow - 18 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 11 2. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 5 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 8 (*) 2. Gray Treefrog - 3 (*) 3. Bullfrog - 1 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 4 2. Creek Chub - 24 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 19 2. Clouded Sulphur - 2 3. Pearl Crescent - 6 4. Silver-spotted Skipper - 4 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]