JUNE 02, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 5:30am-2:35pm TEMP.: 51-74 COND.: Cloudy & gray early turning mostly sunny then partly cloudy; breezy all day, wind from the west, then northwest. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 29 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 3. Red Squirrel - 12 4. Muskrat - 2 5. White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe) II. BIRDS: 73 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 45 (1 gosling) 2. Wood Duck - 28 (6f,1*,21 ducklings) 3. Mallard - 4 (2m,2f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 14 5. Turkey Vulture - 12 6. Osprey - 1 7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) 8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 9. Broad-winged Hawk - 2 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 11. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f) 12. Killdeer - 2 13. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 14. Rock Pigeon - 1 15. Mourning Dove - 6 16. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4 17. Chimney Swift - 13 18. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (1?,1*) 19. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,2*) 20. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,4*) 21. Downy Woodpecker - 8 (1m,2f,3*,2 juvenile) 22. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (*) 23. Northern Flicker - 3 (1m,1?,1*) 24. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) 25. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 10 26. Acadian Flycatcher - 6 27. Willow Flycatcher - 3 28. Eastern Phoebe - 8 (4 juvenile) 29. Great Crested Flycatcher - 5 30. Eastern Kingbird - 4 31. White-eyed Vireo - 1 32. Yellow-throated Vireo - 4 33. Warbling Vireo - 12 34. Red-eyed Vireo - 10 (1 nest) 35. Blue Jay - 11 36. American Crow - 7 37. Tree Swallow - 7 38. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 15 39. Bank Swallow - 7 40. Barn Swallow - 9 (1 nest) 41. Black-capped Chickadee - 10 (1 juvenile) 42. Tufted Titmouse - 14 (1 juvenile) 43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (2m,3*) 44. Carolina Wren - 6 (2 juvenile) 45. House Wren - 2 46. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 9 (3?,6*) 47. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (1m,1*) 48. Veery - 4 49. American Robin - 41 (2 juvenile,2 nests) 50. Gray Catbird - 17 51. European Starling - 30 52. Cedar Waxwing - 27 (1 nest) 53. Yellow Warbler - 22 (21m,1f) 54. Yellow-throated Warbler - 3 (m) 55. Cerulean Warbler - 3 (m) 56. American Redstart - 7 (m) 57. Common Yellowthroat - 16 (m) 58. Hooded Warbler - 4 (m) 59. Scarlet Tanager - 6 (5m,1f) 60. Chipping Sparrow - 7 61. Song Sparrow - 44 62. Swamp Sparrow - 9 63. Northern Cardinal - 31 (17m,4f,3*,1 juvenile m,1 juvenile f,6 juvenile *) 64. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 10 (9m,1*) 65. Indigo Bunting - 21 (19m,2f) 66. Red-winged Blackbird - 35 (29m,5f,1 juvenile) 67. Common Grackle - 73 (1 juvenile) 68. Brown-headed Cowbird - 9 (7m,2f) 69. Orchard Oriole - 2 (1m,1 immature m) 70. Baltimore Oriole - 17 (15m,1f,1*) 71. House Finch - 4 (2m,1f,1*) 72. American Goldfinch - 14 (7m,2f,5*) 73. House Sparrow - 21 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 26 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 12 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 1 2. Green Frog - 3 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - many VI. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 21 3. Summer Azure - 1 4. Silvery Checkerspot - 1 5. Little Wood Satyr - 2 6. Least Skipper - 2 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]