APRIL 06, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:40am-3:10pm TEMP.: 24-53 COND.: Mostly cloudy early & chilly turning cloudy; clouds lifting & turning mostly sunny & warmer from 10:20am on. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Boston), John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Mink - 1 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 9 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5 4. Red Squirrel - 26 5. Muskrat - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 3 II. BIRDS: 52 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 74 (2 nests) 2. Wood Duck - 4 (2m,2f) 3. American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f) 4. Mallard - 13 (9m,4f) 5. Ring-necked Duck - 29 (16m,13f) 6. Great Blue Heron - 10 7. Turkey Vulture - 10 8. Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adult, 1 immature) 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 10 (1 immature) 10. Virginia Rail - 1 (calling at Ira Beaver Marsh) 11. American Coot - 1 12. Killdeer - 2 13. Ring-billed Gull - 8 14. Herring Gull - 1 15. Rock Pigeon - 2 16. Mourning Dove - 7 17. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (2m,1f,1*) 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 (3m,2f,1?,6*, 1 nest) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 12 (4m,5f,1?,2*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1?,2*) 21. Northern Flicker - 2 (*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (2?,3*) 23. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) 24. Eastern Phoebe - 4 25. Blue Jay - 15 26. American Crow - 15 27. Tree Swallow - 40 (all at Ira Beaver Marsh) 28. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3 29. Black-capped Chickadee - 39 30. Tufted Titmouse - 17 31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 12 (4m,2f,2?,4*) 32. Brown Creeper - 2 33. Carolina Wren - 12 34. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6 (2m,1f,2?,1*) 35. Eastern Bluebird - 5 (3m,2f) 36. American Robin - 47 37. European Starling - 12 38. American Tree Sparrow - 13 39. Fox Sparrow - 3 40. Song Sparrow - 73 41. Swamp Sparrow - 2 42. White-throated Sparrow - 4 43. White-crowned Sparrow - 1 (first-winter bird along Towpath between trail & Szalay's corn fields at Bolanz lot) 44. Dark-eyed Junco - 3 (1m,2f) 45. Northern Cardinal - 43 (36m,4f,3*) 46. Red-winged Blackbird - 42 (31m,1f,10?) 47. Rusty Blackbird - 2 (m) 48. Common Grackle - 48 49. Brown-headed Cowbird - 11 (9m,1f,1*) 50. House Finch - 4 (2m,2*) 51. American Goldfinch - 17 (8m,1f,4?,4*) 52. House Sparrow - 18 III. REPTILES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Red-eared Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 67 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - (many heard) 2. Wood Frog - (many heard) V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - 35+ VI. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Comma - 1 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]