AUGUST 03, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:15am-2:30pm TEMP.: 65-79 COND.: Gray & overcast early, clearing out turning sunny & warm. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 16 2. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 3. Red Squirrel - 9 4. White-tailed Deer - 6 (5 does,1 fawn) II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES, 1 EXOTIC/ESCAPE. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) E. "Greylag/Barnyard" Goose - 1 1. Canada Goose - 29 2. Wood Duck - 22 (5m,10 juv. m,4f,3 juv. f) 3. Great Blue Heron - 9 4. Green Heron - 6 (1 immature) 5. Turkey Vulture - 7 6. Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 7. Broad-winged Hawk - 2 (1 immature) 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 immature) 9. Killdeer - 2 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 11. Rock Pigeon - 2 12. Mourning Dove - 4 13. Chimney Swift - 19 14. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (f) 15. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1 juv. m,1 juv. f,4*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 8 (1m,7*) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (*) 19. Northern Flicker - 4 (*) 20. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*) 21. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult) 22. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 12 23. Acadian Flycatcher - 4 24. Willow Flycatcher - 1 25. Eastern Phoebe - 3 26. Yellow-throated Vireo - 3 27. Warbling Vireo - 4 28. Red-eyed Vireo - 4 29. Blue Jay - 20 30. American Crow - 9 31. Purple Martin - 1 (new species recorded on census - now at 154 species since 01/2010) 32. Tree Swallow - 7 33. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 11 34. Bank Swallow - 56 35. Barn Swallow - 13 36. Black-capped Chickadee - 14 37. Tufted Titmouse - 12 38. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (2m,6*) 39. Carolina Wren - 14 40. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 (1?,3*) 41. American Robin - 28 (1 immature) 42. Gray Catbird - 18 43. European Starling - 316 44. Cedar Waxwing - 18 45. Common Yellowthroat - 14 (13m,1*) 46. Hooded Warbler - 6 (1m,1 juv. m,1?,3*) 47. Yellow Warbler - 3 (m) 48. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1*) 49. Field Sparrow - 2 50. Song Sparrow - 35 51. Swamp Sparrow - 9 52. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (m) 53. Northern Cardinal - 48 (25m,5f,13*,5 juv. *) 54. Indigo Bunting - 20 (18m,1f,1*) 55. Red-winged Blackbird - 107 (6f,101 mixed flock) 56. Common Grackle - 704 57. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (?) 58. House Finch - 2 (1m,1*) 59. American Goldfinch - 30 (13m,1f,5?,11*) 60. House Sparrow - 24 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 33 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 14 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 1 2. Green Frog - 11 V. FISHES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - 5 2. Northern Hog Sucker - 1 3. Largemouth Bass - 3 4. Bluegill - 3 5. Pumpkinseed - 4 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 10 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 9 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 11 3. Clouded Sulphur - 1 4. Summer Azure - 7 5. Pearl Crescent - 1 6. Eastern Comma - 2 7. Red-spotted Purple - 2 8. Viceroy - 2 9. Monarch - 1 10. Zabulon Skipper - 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]