APRIL 29, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park. HIKE: Buckeye Trail from Boston Trailhead to Pine Lane Trailhead , then Valley Bridle Trail from Pine Lane Trailhead to Wetmore Trailhead. TIME: 7:50am-12:30pm TEMP.: 32-58 COND.: Brisk early, warming throughout, turning sunny & pleasant. FT.MI.: 8.25 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & MIchelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 12 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 4. Red Squirrel - 2 5. White-tailed Deer - 12 (8 buck, 4 doe) II. BIRDS: 64 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 13 (4 goslings) 2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1f) 3. Mallard - 2 (1m,1f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 1 5. Turkey Vulture - 4 6. Bald Eagle - 2 (adults - male chasing female) 7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature male) 8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 (1 immature) 9. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 11. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (male - at Ohio Turnpike bridge) 12. Herring Gull - 1 13. Rock Pigeon - 1 14. Mourning Dove - 5 15. Chimney Swift - 5 16. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*) 17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (along VBT across from Akron-Peninsula Rd. & Truxell Rd. intersection) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 7 (1m,2f,1?,3*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*) 21. Northern Flicker - 2 (*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (?) 23. Eastern Phoebe - 1 (1 nest) 24. Warbling Vireo - 3 25. Blue Jay - 9 26. American Crow - 4 27. Tree Swallow - 4 28. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 29. Bank Swallow - 1 30. Barn Swallow - 1 31. Black-capped Chickadee - 7 32. Tufted Titmouse - 11 33. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (2m,3*) 34. Brown Creeper - 2 35. Carolina Wren - 1 36. House Wren - 3 37. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (*) 38. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 (1m,4*) 39. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (?) 40. Hermit Thrush - 3 41 . Wood Thrush - 1 42. American Robin - 18 43. European Starling - 9 44. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 45. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m) 46. Yellow Warbler - 3 (m) 47. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (m) 48. Pine Warbler - 2 (at Pine Lane Trailhead) 49. Ovenbird - 1 50. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (m) 51. Eastern Towhee - 4 (2m,2*) 52. Chipping Sparrow - 12 53. Field Sparrow - 9 54. Song Sparrow - 24 55. Swamp Sparrow - 1 56. White-throated Sparrow - 5 57. Northern Cardinal - 16 (10m,4f,2*) 58. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (m) 59. Red-winged Blackbird - 12 (8m,3f,1*) 60. Common Grackle - 6 61. Brown-headed Cowbird - 11 (9m,1f,1*) 62. House Finch - 3 (*) 63. American Goldfinch - 18 (7m,1f,4?,6*) 64. House Sparrow - 2 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 5 2. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 7 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (*) V. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1 2. Clouded Sulphur - 1 3. Pearl Crescent - 1 4. Gray Comma - 1 5. Red Admiral - 6 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]