AUGUST 04, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 5:50am-12:50pm TEMP.: 67-87 COND.: Mostly sunny & warm. FT. MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 8 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 3. Red Squirrel - 6 II. BIRDS: 55 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed.) 1. Canada Goose - 24 2. Wood Duck - 9 (3m,3f,2?,1 juvenile) 3. Mallard - 2 (1f,1*) 4. Great Blue Heron - 8 5. Green Heron - 9 (5 adult, 4 juvenile - 1 juvenile with broken left wing) 6. Turkey Vulture - 4 7. Bald Eagle - 2 (adults - 1 adult broke a dead branch off of a cottonwood & flew away with it) 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 juvenile) 9. Killdeer - 2 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 11. Rock Pigeon - 13 12. Mourning Dove - 3 13. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 14. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 15. Chimney Swift - 8 16. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (?) 17. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (2m,1f,1?) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 (1?,3*) 19. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*) 20. Northern Flicker - 1 (?) 21. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) 22. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 23. Acadian Flycatcher - 1 24. Eastern Phoebe - 2 25. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 26. Eastern Kingbird - 2 27. Warbling Vireo - 2 28. Red-eyed Vireo - 3 29. Blue Jay - 14 30. American Crow - 11 31. Tree Swallow - 21 32. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 33. Barn Swallow - 4 34. Black-capped Chickadee - 7 35. Tufted Titmouse - 8 36. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (1m,4*) 37. Carolina Wren - 4 38. House Wren - 1 39. Eastern Bluebird - 4 (?) 40. American Robin - 41 41. Gray Catbird - 13 42. European Starling - 744 43. Cedar Waxwing - 9 44. Common Yellowthroat - 5 (3m,1f,1*) 45. Hooded Warbler - 2 (1m,1*) 46. Yellow Warbler - 3 (2m,1f) 47. Chipping Sparrow - 3 48. Song Sparrow - 11 49. Swamp Sparrow - 1 50. Northern Cardinal - 27 (16m,3f,6*,2 juv. *) 51. Indigo Bunting - 4 (3m,1*) 52. Red-winged Blackbird - 31 (6m,3f,20?,2 juv.) 53. Common Grackle - 316 54. American Goldfinch - 21 (13m,2f,3?,4*) 55. House Sparrow - 14 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 2 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 15 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 7 2. Green Frog - 4 V. FISHES: 6 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 2 2. Creek Chub - 23 3. Northern Hog Sucker - 5 4. Largemouth Bass - 2 5. Bluegill - 2 6. Redear Sunfish - 9 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 4 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 13 3. Clouded Sulphur - 1 4. Red-spotted Purple - 2 5. Silver-spotted Skipper - 3 VII. WILDFLOWER (of note) 1. Cardinal-flower 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]