JULY 05, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 5:45am-1:15pm TEMP.: 69-76-74 COND.: Overcast with off & on light sprinkles until 8:15am; partly cloudy until 10:45am when light sprinkles resumed turning into light rain until 12:15pm; overcast with light to heavy mist from 12:45pm until end of census. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock Trailhead to Lock 29 in Peninsula) & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 9 SPECIES. 1. Little Brown Myotis - 1 ** Mink - 1 dead ** 2. Woodchuck - 1 3. Eastern Chipmunk - 24 4. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 5. Red Squirrel - 15 6. Beaver - 1 7. Muskrat - 1 8. Eastern Cottontail - 7 (2 young) 9. White-tailed Deer - 15 (3 bucks,8 does & 4 fawns) II. BIRDS: 76 SPECIES. (Also 1 Exotic/Escape & 1 Hybrid) (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 9 (6 young) E. Greylag Goose - 1 H. Greylag GooseXCanada Goose - 3 (young) 2. Wood Duck - 21 (5f,16 young) 3. Mallard - 6 (2f,4 young) 4. Great Blue Heron - 8 (also 1 dead) 5. Green Heron - 2 6. Turkey Vulture - 2 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 8. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (3 juvenile) 10. Killdeer - 1 11. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 12. Mourning Dove - 18 13. Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 14. Chimney Swift - 17 15. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (1f,1?) 16. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (?) 17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1m,5*) 18. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,2f,1?,5*) 19. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (2f,2*) 20. Northern Flicker - 5 (1m,1?,3*) 21. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) 22. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6 23. Acadian Flycatcher - 6 24. Willow Flycatcher - 1 25. Eastern Phoebe - 3 26. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 27. Eastern Kingbird - 3 28. White-eyed Vireo - 1 29. Yellow-throated Vireo - 5 30. Warbling Vireo - 10 31. Red-eyed Vireo - 15 32. Blue Jay - 9 33. American Crow - 9 34. Tree Swallow - 8 35. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 26 36. Bank Swallow - 16 37. Barn Swallow - 9 (1 nest) 38. Black-capped Chickadee - 21 (2 juvenile) 39. Tufted Titmouse - 18 (3 juvenile) 40. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 (*) 41. Carolina Wren - 10 42. House Wren - 4 43. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 (*) 44. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*) 45. Veery - 1 46. Wood Thrush - 4 (1 juvenile) 47. American Robin - 69 (13 juvenile) 48. Gray Catbird - 35 49. European Starling - 25 50. Cedar Waxwing - 17 (1 nest) 51. Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 52. Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (1m feeding a juvenile) 53. Common Yellowthroat - 22 (m) 54. Hooded Warbler - 8 (m) 55. American Redstart - 7 (m) 56. Cerulean Warbler - 2 (m) 57. Yellow Warbler - 7 (4m,2f,1*) 58. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (m) 59. Yellow-throated Warbler - 7 (m) 60. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m) 61. Chipping Sparrow - 10 62. Field Sparrow - 2 63. Song Sparrow - 53 64. Swamp Sparrow - 10 65. Scarlet Tanager - 6 (5m,1f) 66. Northern Cardinal - 42 (24m,8f,4*,6 juvenile*) 67. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (3m,1*) 68. Indigo Bunting - 30 (29m,1f) 69. Red-winged Blackbird - 84 (17m,14f,53?) 70. Common Grackle - 768 71. Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (2m,1f,2?,2*,1 juvenile) 72. Orchard Oriole - 3 (m) 73. Baltimore Oriole - 3 (m) 74. House Finch - 4 (1m,1f,2*) 75. American Goldfinch - 20 (6m,5f,1?,8*) 76. House Sparrow - 22 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 16 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 11 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Gray Treefrog - 1 2. Bullfrog - 1 3. Green Frog - 18 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Bluegill - 7 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 13 3. Great Spangled Fritillary - 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]