MAY 10, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead to Merriman Rd. TIME: 5:45am-3:40pm TEMP.: 63-75 COND.: Overcast & breezy. Rain ending at start of hike & rain starting at end of hike. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Woodchuck - 2 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 49 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 (1 black phase) 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 8 5. Red Squirrel - 5 6. Beaver - 1 7. White-tailed Deer - 11 (doe) II. BIRDS: 83 SPECIES, 1 EXOTIC/ESCAPE. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 84 (7 goslings) E. "Greylag" Goose - 1 2. Wood Duck - 12 (10m,2f) 3. Mallard - 27 (20m,5f,2*) 4. Great Blue Heron - 12 5. Green Heron - 1 6. Turkey Vulture - 9 7. Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1 imm. male, 1 imm. female) 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 9. Killdeer - 3 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 10 11. Solitary Sandpiper - 1 12. Rock Pigeon - 5 13. Mourning Dove - 20 14. Chimney Swift - 6 15. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (f) 16. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (*) 17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 (1f,6*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 6 (1?,5*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1f,2*) 21. Northern Flicker - 6 (1m,1f,4*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*) 23. Merlin - 1 (?) 24. Acadian Flycatcher - 1 25. Least Flycatcher - 1 26. Eastern Phoebe - 4 27. Great Crested Flycatcher - 8 28. Yellow-throated Vireo - 7 29. Warbling Vireo - 26 30. Red-eyed Vireo - 6 31. Blue Jay - 16 32. American Crow - 13 33. Tree Swallow - 14 34. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 22 35. Barn Swallow - 2 36. Black-capped Chickadee - 26 37. Tufted Titmouse - 20 38. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (1m,4*) 39. Carolina Wren - 9 40. House Wren - 11 41. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 16 (1m,1f,3?,11*) 42. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (?) 43. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (2m,1f) 44. Veery - 2 45. Wood Thrush - 1 46. American Robin - 50 (1 young in nest) 47. Gray Catbird - 17 48. European Starling - 22 49. Cedar Waxwing - 11 50. Northern Waterthrush - 1 51. Blue-winged Warbler - 5 (m) 52. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m) 53. Tennessee Warbler - 4 (m) 54. Common Yellowthroat - 28 (m) 55. Hooded Warbler - 8 (m) 56. American Redstart - 9 (m) 57. Cape May Warbler - 1 (m) 58. Cerulean Warbler - 5 (m) 59. Northern Parula - 1 (m) 60. Yellow Warbler - 44 (40m,4f) 61. Palm Warbler - 1 62. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 (5m,3f) 63. Yellow-throated Warbler - 10 (m) 64. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (m) 65. Eastern Towhee - 4 (m) 66. Chipping Sparrow - 5 67. Field Sparrow - 2 68. Song Sparrow - 54 69. Swamp Sparrow - 11 70. White-throated Sparrow - 1 71. White-crowned Sparrow - 6 72. Scarlet Tanager - 10 (9m,1*) 73. Northern Cardinal - 42 (33m,6f,3*) 74. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 19 (13m,3f,3*) 75. Indigo Bunting - 14 (m) 76. Red-winged Blackbird - 55 (43m,12f) 77. Common Grackle - 27 78. Brown-headed Cowbird - 22 (16m,4f,2?) 79. Orchard Oriole - 4 (3m,1f) 80. Baltimore Oriole - 25 (23m,2f) 81. House Finch - 6 (3m,2f,1*) 82. American Goldfinch - 20 (11m,4f,1?,4*) 83. House Sparrow - 24 (Also - I had 3 Pine Siskins on my thistle feeder once I got home) III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 25 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 25 4. Northern Water Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 6 SPECIES. 1. American Toad - (heard many) 2. Northern Spring Peeper - 1 (heard) 3. Gray Treefrog - 7 (heard) 4. Bullfrog - 1 (heard) 5. Green Frog - 13 6. Northern Leopard Frog - 1 (heard) V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - 6 2. Bluegill - 7 3. Pumpkinseed - 3 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2 3. Cabbage Butterfly - 10 4. Wild Indigo Dusky Wing - 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]