JUNE 01, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 5:40am-2:20pm TEMP.: 65-86-85 COND.: Mostly cloudy, at times partly sunny, breezy throughout the day. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Shorttail Shrew - 1 2. Mink - 1 3. Eastern Chipmunk - 40 4. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (1 black morph) 5. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 6. Red Squirrel - 10 7. White-tailed Deer - 6 (does) II. BIRDS: 79 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 65 (4 goslings) 2. Wood Duck - 38 (1m,6f,1?, 30 ducklings - duckling groups consisted of 6, 5, 10, 6 & 3 groups) 3. Mallard - 10 (8m,2f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 17 5. Green Heron - 2 6. Turkey Vulture - 8 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 8. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 10. Killdeer - 5 11. Spotted Sandpiper - 3 12. Ring-billed Gull - 2 13. Herring Gull - 4 14. Rock Pigeon - 3 15. Mourning Dove - 8 (1 nest) 16. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3 17. Chimney Swift - 7 18. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (1f,1*) 19. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1*) 20. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 21. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 15 (1m,2f,3?,9*) 22. Downy Woodpecker - 8 (1m,2f,1?,4* - 1 nest) 23. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1m,1f,1 juvenile,1* - 1 nest) 24. Northern Flicker - 7 (2m,5*) 25. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1*) 26. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f - young at Ohio Turnpike bridge have not fledged yet) 27. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 14 28. Acadian Flycatcher - 7 29. Willow Flycatcher - 4 30. Eastern Phoebe - 3 31. Great Crested Flycatcher - 10 32. Eastern Kingbird - 9 33. White-eyed Vireo - 1 34. Yellow-throated Vireo - 7 35. Warbling Vireo - 19 36. Red-eyed Vireo - 18 37. Blue Jay - 12 (1 nest) 38. American Crow - 10 39. Tree Swallow - 7 (1 nest) 40. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 18 41. Bank Swallow - 3 42. Barn Swallow - 6 (1 nest) 43. Black-capped Chickadee - 15 (1 nest) 44. Tufted Titmouse - 12 45. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (2m,6* - 1 nest) 46. Carolina Wren - 5 47. House Wren - 6 48. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 9 (1m,2?,6*) 49. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (1m,2?) 50. Veery - 2 51. Wood Thrush - 4 52. American Robin - 39 (4 juvenile, 1 nest) 53. Gray Catbird - 28 54. European Starling - 57 55. Cedar Waxwing - 39 (1 nest) 56. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 57. Common Yellowthroat - 31 (28m,3f) 58. Hooded Warbler - 7 (m) 59. American Redstart - 14 (13m,1 first spring m) 60. Cerulean Warbler - 4 (m) 61. Yellow Warbler - 23 (21m,2f) 62. Yellow-throated Warbler - 6 (m) 63. Eastern Towhee - 2 (1m,1*) 64. Chipping Sparrow - 4 65. Field Sparrow - 1 66. Song Sparrow - 50 67. Swamp Sparrow - 14 68. Scarlet Tanager - 3 (m) 69. Northern Cardinal - 43 (30m,4f,1 juvenile f,4*,4 juvenile *) 70. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 8 (m) 71. Indigo Bunting - 24 (22m,2f) 72. Red-winged Blackbird - 48 (32m,16f) 73. Common Grackle - 33 (3 juvenile) 74. Brown-headed Cowbird - 11 (8m,2f,1*) 75. Orchard Oriole - 4 (2m,1 first spring m,1f - 1 nest) 76. Baltimore Oriole - 20 (18m,1f,1* - 2 nests) 77. House Finch - 11 (1m,1f,1 juvenile,3?,5*) 78. American Goldfinch - 19 (5m,6f,2?,6*) 79. House Sparrow - 23 III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 45 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 15 4. Northern Water Snake - 1 (young) 5. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. American Toad - (heard many) 2. Bullfrog - 1 3. Green Frog - 9 V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 2 2. Creek Chub - 15 3. Bluegill - 23 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 5 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 4 3. Summer Azure - 2 4. Mourning Cloak - 1 5. Red-spotted Purple - 2 6. Northern Pearly Eye - 23 7. Zabulon Skipper - 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]