SEPTEMBER 07, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:05am-3:35pm TEMP.: 54-82 COND.: Cool & sunny early changing to partly sunny & warm, then changing to mostly cloudy. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Woodchuck - 1 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 34 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 5. Red Squirrel - 16 6. Muskrat - 1 7. White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe) II. BIRDS: 56 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 37 2. Wood Duck - 34 (11m,17f,6?) 3. Mallard - 14 (8m,6f) 4. Double-crested Cormorant - 3 5. Great Blue Heron - 3 6. Green Heron - 4 7. Turkey Vulture - 7 8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 (1 immature) 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (2 immature) 10. Killdeer - 2 11. Rock Pigeon - 18 12. Mourning Dove - 11 13. Chimney Swift - 123 14. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,1f,1?,1*) 15. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (adults) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 (1f,1 juvenile,2?,7*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 5 (1?,4*) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (*) 19. Northern Flicker - 10 (1m,1f,6?,2*) 20. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1?,3*) 21. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f) 22. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 23. Least Flycatcher - 1 ??. Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 3 24. Eastern Phoebe - 5 25. Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 26. Warbling Vireo - 10 27. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 28. Blue Jay - 24 29. American Crow - 149 30. Black-capped Chickadee - 19 31. Tufted Titmouse - 12 32. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 (1m,1f,5*) 33. Carolina Wren - 12 34. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 (?) 35. Eastern Bluebird - 5 (4?,1*) 36. American Robin - 41 (1 immature,1 dead immature) 37. Gray Catbird - 17 38. European Starling - 68 39. Cedar Waxwing - 120 (many young birds) 40. Tennessee Warbler - 1 (f) 41. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m) 42. Common Yellowthroat - 9 (2m,1 immature m,1f,5*) 43. Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (f) 44. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (f) 45. Blackpoll Warbler - 1 46. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (*) ??. Unidentified Warbler Fly-over - 3 47. Song Sparrow - 11 48. Swamp Sparrow - 6 49. Northern Cardinal - 31 (8m,4f,2 immature f,9*,7 immature *,1 nest w/at least 1 juvenile) 50. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (*) 51. Indigo Bunting - 2 (1f,1*) 52. Red-winged Blackbird - 14 (2m,6f,5?,1*) 53. Common Grackle - 1 54. House Finch - 2 (1f,1*) 55. American Goldfinch - 19 (4m,3f,4?,8*) 56. House Sparrow - 17 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 27 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 6 (heard) 2. Bullfrog - 2 V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Creek Chub - many 2. Largemouth Bass - 5 3. Bluegill - 3 4. Pumpkinseed - 6 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 15 2. Pearl Crescent - 1 3. Monarch - 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]