OCTOBER 04, 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-3:40pm TEMP.: 65-81-77 COND.: Cloudy early, warming & turning mostly sunny; front from the west, turning cloudy/overcast & cooler; light sprinkles from 2:50pm-3:20pm. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 80 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5 (1 black morph) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4 4. Red Squirrel - 26 5. White-tailed Deer - 1 (yearling doe) II. BIRDS: 54 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 - 103 2. Wood Duck - 10 (6m,2f,2?) 3. Great Blue Heron - 9 4. Turkey Vulture - 18 5. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (f) 6. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 7. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 8. Killdeer - 14 9. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 10. Ring-billed Gull - 5 11. Rock Pigeon - 5 12. Mourning Dove - 9 13. Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 (calling to each other) 14. Chimney Swift - 22 15. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1?) 16. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 18 (3m,3f,2?,10*) 18. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 19. Downy Woodpecker - 13 (4m,4f,5*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (2m,1f,2*) 21. Northern Flicker - 7 (1f,2?,4*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1?,3*) 23. Merlin - 1 (?) 24. Eastern Phoebe - 5 25. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 26. Blue Jay - 45 27. American Crow - 17 28. Black-capped Chickadee - 25 29. Tufted Titmouse - 14 30. White-breasted Nuthatch - 13 (2m,1f,2?,8*) 31. Carolina Wren - 15 32. House Wren - 1 33. Eastern Bluebird - 16 (2m,5f,7?,2*) 34. American Robin - 103 35. Gray Catbird - 7 36. European Starling - 83 37. Cedar Waxwing - 196 38. Mourning Warbler - 1 39. Common Yellowthroat - 1 (*) 40. Hooded Warbler - 1 41. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 83 42. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 43. Song Sparrow - 20 44. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 45. Swamp Sparrow - 8 46. White-throated Sparrow - 4 47. White-crowned Sparrow - 4 48. Northern Cardinal - 38 (10m,9f,4 juv. f,13*,2 juv. *) 49. Red-winged Blackbird - 266 50. Common Grackle - 599 51. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (m) 52. House Finch - 4 (1f,3?) 53. American Goldfinch - 15 54. House Sparrow - 12 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Red-eared Turtle - 1 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 11 4. Northern Brown Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 28 (heard) 2. Bullfrog - 5 3. Green Frog - 5 V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 2 2. Creek Chub - 15 3. Bluegill - 7 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 10 2. Clouded Sulphur - 1 3. Eastern Comma - 1 4. Mourning Cloak - 1 5. Monarch - 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]