SEPTEMBER 08, 2012 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:30am-3:40pm TEMP.: 65-62-71 COND.: Steady rain from 6:30am-9:45am then overcast until 11:50am; mostly cloudy until 12:40pm; partly sunny & breezy from 12:40pm-3:40pm; (Cuyahoga River high due to recent rains - no sand/rock bars). FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 27 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 (1 black phase) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 4. Red Squirrel - 13 5. Eastern Cottontail - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 2 (1 spike buck,1 doe) II. BIRDS: 71 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) E. "Greylag Goose" (escape/exotic) - 1 1. Canada Goose - 290 2. Wood Duck - 2 (1m,1?) 3. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 4. Great Blue Heron - 7 5. Green Heron - 5 (4 immature) 6. Turkey Vulture - 6 7. Bald Eagle - 1 (immature) 8. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) 9. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 10. Red-tailed Hawk - 7 (2 immature) 11. Killdeer - 7 12. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 13. Rock Pigeon - 17 14. Mourning Dove - 5 15. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4 (2 adults feeding 2 immature) 16. Chimney Swift - 113 17. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (m) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 (3f,6*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 7 (3m,3f,1?) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 10 (3m,4f,3*) 21. Northern Flicker - 7 (2m,2f,3*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) 23. Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 24. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 12 25. Acadian Flycatcher - 1 26. Least Flycatcher - 1 ??. Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 2 27. Eastern Phoebe - 4 28. White-eyed Vireo - 1 29. Yellow-throated Vireo - 3 30. Warbling Vireo - 4 31. Philadelphia Vireo - 1 32. Red-eyed Vireo - 4 33. Blue Jay - 30 34. American Crow - 40 35. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 36. Black-capped Chickadee - 27 37. Tufted Titmouse - 16 38. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (2m,1f,1?,6*) 39. Carolina Wren - 6 40. House Wren - 2 (1 immature) 41. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (m) 42. Wood Thrush - 1 43. American Robin - 14 (1 immature) 44. Gray Catbird - 22 45. European Starling - 6 46. Cedar Waxwing - 257 (many immature) 47. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m) 48. Tennessee Warbler - 1 49. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m) 50. Common Yellowthroat - 9 (2m,4f,3*) 51. Hooded Warbler - 7 (5m,1f,1*) 52. American Redstart - 2 (female or immature male) 53. Magnolia Warbler - 3 (f) 54. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 (m) 55. Blackburnian Warbler - 2 (1m,1f) 56. Blackpoll Warbler - 3 57. Yellow-throated Warbler - 4 (1 male & 1 female feeding 2 immature) 58. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (f) 59. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 60. Field Sparrow - 6 (immature) 61. Song Sparrow - 8 62. Scarlet Tanager - 6 (2m,3f,1?) 63. Northern Cardinal - 54 (11m,5 immature m,14f,4 immature f,14*,6 immature *) 64. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 5 (f) 65. Red-winged Blackbird - 19 (m) 66. Common Grackle - 2 67. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (1m,1f) 68. Purple Finch - 2 (f) 69. House Finch - 2 (?) 70. American Goldfinch - 38 (7m,15f,6?,8*,2 immature) 71. House Sparrow - 2 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 3 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 2. Green Frog - 2 V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 1 2. Bluegill - 8 3. Pumpkinseed - 2 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 16 2. Pearl Crescent - 1 3. Viceroy - 1 4. Monarch - 41 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]