JULY 06, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 5:35am-1:25pm TEMP.: 70-99-98 COND.: Foggy & humid early, giving way to very hot & sunny. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Little Brown Myotis - 1 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 14 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 5. Red Squirrel - 9 6. White-tailed Deer - 2 (doe) II. BIRDS: 72 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 10 2. Wood Duck - 19 (4f,15 young) 3. Mallard - 10 (3f,7 young) 4. Great Blue Heron - 8 5. Green Heron - 3 (1 immature) 6. Turkey Vulture - 8 7. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f) 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 immature) 9. Peregrine Falcon - 4 (1m,1f,2 immature) 10. Killdeer - 1 11. Spotted Sandpiper - 6 12. Rock Pigeon - 4 13. Mourning Dove - 10 14. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 15. Chimney Swift - 7 16. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (*) 17. Belted Kingfisher - 5 (2m,2?,1*) 18. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 (2 adults with 1 young sticking out of nest-hole) 19. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (*) 20. Downy Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,4*) 21. Northern Flicker - 7 (2m,1?,4*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1?,2*) 23. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 12 24. Acadian Flycatcher - 3 25. Willow Flycatcher - 1 26. Eastern Phoebe - 4 27. Great Crested Flycatcher - 4 28. Eastern Kingbird - 3 29. Yellow-throated Vireo - 3 30. Warbling Vireo - 11 31. Red-eyed Vireo - 13 32. Blue Jay - 5 33. American Crow - 10 34. Tree Swallow - 21 (17 immature) 35. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 10 36. Bank Swallow - 81 37. Barn Swallow - 5 (1 immature) 38. Black-capped Chickadee - 24 (1 immature) 39. Tufted Titmouse - 26 (2 immature) 40. White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 (1m,8*) 41. Carolina Wren - 8 42. House Wren - 1 43. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 (1f,4*) 44. Eastern Bluebird - 9 (3m,2f,1*,3 immature) 45. Wood Thrush - 2 46. American Robin - 38 (3 immature) 47. Gray Catbird - 24 48. European Starling - 217 49. Cedar Waxwing - 9 50. Common Yellowthroat - 37 (36m,1f) 51. Hooded Warbler - 7 (m) 52. American Redstart - 2 (1m,1f) 53. Cerulean Warbler - 1 (m) 54. Yellow Warbler - 8 (2m,2f,3?,1*) 55. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (m) 56. Yellow-throated Warbler - 5 (m) 57. Eastern Towhee - 2 (m) 58. Chipping Sparrow - 5 59. Field Sparrow - 1 60. Song Sparrow - 61 61. Swamp Sparrow - 10 62. Scarlet Tanager - 6 (5m,1*) 63. Northern Cardinal -37 (27m,1 immature m,1f,6*,2 immature *) 64. Indigo Bunting - 17 (16m,1*) 65. Red-winged Blackbird - 87 (29m,10f,46 mixed flocks,2 immature) 66. Common Grackle - 129 67. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (6m,2f) 68. Orchard Oriole - 1 (m) 69. Baltimore Oriole - 1 (m) 70. House Finch - 5 (2?,3*) 71. American Goldfinch - 22 (9m,3f,10*) 72. House Sparrow - 17 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 18 2. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 6 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 7 2. Green Frog - 17 V. FISHES: 8 SPECIES. 1. Koi (escaped/released) - 1 2. Common Carp - 9 3. Creek Chub - 8 4. Northern Hog Sucker - 2 5. Rock Bass - 1 6. Largemouth Bass - 3 7. Bluegill - 9 8. Pumpkinseed - 16 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 28 3. Great Spangled Fritillary - 1 4. Pearl Crescent - 5 5. Red-spotted Purple - 4 6. Northern Pearly Eye - 1 7. Monarch - 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]