APRIL 06, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:15am-4:00pm TEMP.: 29-57-52 COND.: Chilly & foggy early; fog burning off, sunny, beautiful with blue skies, breezy; wind NW at 5-10mph. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29 in Peninsula), John Henry, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 1 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 7 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 8 4. Red Squirrel - 8 5. Muskrat - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 42 II. BIRDS: 57 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 49 (2 nests) 2. Wood Duck - 15 (9m,6f) 3. Mallard - 22 (19m,3f) 4. Wild Turkey - 1 (?) 5. Double-crested Cormorant - 28 (1 flock headed north) 6. Great Blue Heron - 11 7. Turkey Vulture - 9 8. Bald Eagle - 2 (adults flying together) 9. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature female) 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 11. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (male - Ohio Turnpike) 12. American Coot - 3 13. Killdeer - 2 14. Herring Gull - 2 15. Rock Pigeon - 10 16. Mourning Dove - 9 17. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (2m,2*) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 (5m,1?,3*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 11 (3m,3f,5?) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (?) 21. Northern Flicker - 7 (1m,1f,1?,4*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) 23. Eastern Phoebe - 6 24. Blue Jay - 17 25. American Crow - 54 26. Tree Swallow - 9 27. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 28. Black-capped Chickadee - 27 29. Tufted Titmouse - 12 30. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (3m,5*) 31. Brown Creeper - 2 32. Carolina Wren - 6 33. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 21 (4m,4f,11?,2*) 34. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (?) 35. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 (?) 36. Eastern Bluebird - 5 (2m,3f) 37. American Robin - 42 (1 nest) 38. Brown Thrasher - 1 39. European Starling - 20 40. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 41. Eastern Towhee - 2 (1m,1*) 42. American Tree Sparrow - 1 43. Chipping Sparrow - 3 44. Field Sparrow - 4 45. Fox Sparrow - 1 46. Song Sparrow - 45 47. Swamp Sparrow - 8 48. White-throated Sparrow - 16 49. Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (m) 50. Northern Cardinal - 47 (24m,17f,6*) 51. Red-winged Blackbird - 37 (28m,1f,8?) 52. Rusty Blackbird - 3 (1m,1f,1*) 53. Common Grackle - 55 54. Brown-headed Cowbird - 6 (5m,1f) 55. House Finch - 5 (2m,2f,1* - 1 nest) 56. American Goldfinch - 13 57. House Sparrow - 13 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 47 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (heard) 2. Bullfrog - 2 3. Green Frog - 2 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - many 2. Largemouth Bass - 1 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 9 2. Mourning Cloak - 1 3. Red Admiral - 7 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]