MAY 05, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:10am-4:00pm TEMP.: 58-80-77 COND.: Cloudy early, then mostly cloudy until 10:30am, turning mostly sunny until 12:20pm; back to mostly cloudy until 1:15pm; then mostly sunny. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), John Henry, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Raccoon - 2 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 34 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 5. Red Squirrel - 9 6. Muskrat - 1 7. White-tailed Deer - 7 (4 doe,3 yearlings) II. BIRDS: 86 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 31 (2 nests - one on the A.W.P.C.S. bridge abutment) 2. Wood Duck - 3 (2m,1f) 3. Mallard - 10 (9m,1f) 4. Double-crested Cormorant - 2 5. Great Blue Heron - 34 6. Green Heron - 1 7. Turkey Vulture - 12 8. Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult following 1 immature) 9. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) 10. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 (male & female courting) 11. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 (1 immature) 12. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (male - Ohio Turnpike bridge) 13. Virginia Rail - 2 (Ira Beaver Marsh) 14. Killdeer - 6 15. Spotted Sandpiper - 3 16. Solitary Sandpiper - 2 17. Mourning Dove - 16 18. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray "phase" in last year's Pileated nest-hole near Peninsula trestle) 19. Chimney Swift - 14 20. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?) 21. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*) 22. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (Stanford Swamp) 23. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 (1m,1?,10*) 24. Downy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,2f,1*) 25. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (2m,1f,1*) 26. Northern Flicker - 4 (1?,3*) 27. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) 28. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 29. Least Flycatcher - 1 30. Eastern Phoebe - 7 (1 nest) 31. Great Crested Flycatcher - 7 32. Eastern Kingbird - 4 33. White-eyed Vireo - 1 34. Yellow-throated Vireo - 3 35. Warbling Vireo - 21 36. Red-eyed Vireo - 9 37. Blue Jay - 18 (1 pair building nest) 38. American Crow - 7 39. Tree Swallow - 14 40. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 10 41. Bank Swallow - 1 42. Barn Swallow - 5 43. Black-capped Chickadee - 17 (1 nest, 1 pair excavating nest-hole) 44. Tufted Titmouse - 14 45. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 (2m,1f,3* - 1 nest in a Black Cherry knot-hole) 46. Carolina Wren - 3 47. House Wren - 2 48. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 15 (2m,1f,5?,7*) 49. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m) 50. American Robin - 31 51. Gray Catbird - 17 52. European Starling - 13 53. Cedar Waxwing - 3 54. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 55. Tennessee Warbler - 2 (m) 56. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m) 57. Northern Parula - 1 (m) 58. Yellow Warbler - 31 (25m,3f,3? - one female gathering nest material) 59. Magnolia Warbler - 1 (m) 60. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 9 (4m,2f,3*) 61. Yellow-throated Warbler - 5 (m) 62. Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m) 63. Cerulean Warbler - 5 (m) 64. American Redstart - 6 (3m,1 juv. m,2*) 65. Northern Waterthrush - 5 66. Common Yellowthroat - 26 (m) 67. Hooded Warbler - 6 (m) 68. Scarlet Tanager - 7 (m) 69. Eastern Towhee - 4 (m) 70. Chipping Sparrow - 9 71. Field Sparrow - 5 72. Song Sparrow - 40 73. Swamp Sparrow - 9 74. White-throated Sparrow - 2 75. White-crowned Sparrow - 5 76. Northern Cardinal - 34 (26m,5f,3*) 77. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 18 (10m,7f,1*) 78. Indigo Bunting - 7 (m) 79. Red-winged Blackbird - 37 (24m,13f) 80. Common Grackle - 16 81. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (7m,1f) 82. Orchard Oriole - 6 (5m,1 immature m) 83. Baltimore Oriole - 22 (19m,3f) 84. House Finch - 6 (1m,1?,4* - 1 nest) 85. American Goldfinch - 21 (14m,2f,2?,3*) 86. House Sparrow - 19 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 6 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 9 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 12 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Gray Treefrog - 7 (calling) 2. Bullfrog - 8 3. Green Frog - 11 V. FISHES: 7 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 3 2. Golden Shiner - about 20 3. Creek Chub - about 15 4. Rock Bass - 4 5. Largemouth Bass - 4 6. Bluegill - 3 7. Pumpkinseed - 7 V. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 4 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 5 3. Clouded Sulphur - 3 4. Pearl Crescent - 2 5. Gray Comma - 3 6. Red Admiral - 11 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]