MAY 09, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:05am-5:00pm TEMP.: 64-80-73 COND.: Partly cloudy early, warm with light winds; turning overcast - rain from 1:20pm-2:30pm; after that mostly cloudy & cooler. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 32 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 8 4. Red Squirrel - 16 5. Muskrat - 2 6. White-tailed Deer - 17 II. BIRDS: 102 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 57 (3 nests) 2. Wood Duck - 1 (m) 3. Mallard - 13 (8m,5f) 4. Hooded Merganser - 1 (f) 5. Wild Turkey - 1 (m) 6. Great Blue Heron - 21 7. Green Heron - 1 8. Turkey Vulture - 8 9. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (1 nest) 10. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 11. Red-tailed Hawk - 4 12. KIlldeer - 2 13. Spotted Sandpiper - 5 14. Solitary Sandpiper - 1 15. Ring-billed Gull - 1 16. Rock Pigeon - 6 17. Mourning Dove - 17 18. Chimney Swift - 3 19. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,1f,1?) 20. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 (Tied Census High) 21. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (4m,2f,1?,7*) 22. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (2m,2f,1?,4* - 1 nest) 23. Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (4f,1?,1*) 24. Northern Flicker - 4 (1?,3*) 25. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (2?,2*) 26. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) 27. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 28. Acadian Flycatcher - 2 29. Least Flycatcher - 2 (New Census High - was 1) 30. Eastern Phoebe - 4 31. Great Crested Flycatcher - 7 32. Eastern Kingbird - 2 33. White-eyed Vireo - 2 34. Yellow-throated Vireo - 9 35. Warbling Vireo - 34 (New Census High - was 30) 36. Red-eyed Vireo - 16 37. Blue Jay - 24 (1 nest) 38. American Crow - 11 39. Tree Swallow - 14 40. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 10 (1 nest) 41. Bank Swallow - 6 42. Barn Swallow - 9 (1 nest) 43. Black-capped Chickadee - 15 44. Tufted Titmouse - 16 45. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 (2m,2*) 46. Brown Creeper - 1 47. Carolina Wren - 9 48. House Wren - 5 49. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 26 (2m,1f,9?,14* - 2 nests) (New Census High - was 16) 50. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*) 51. Veery - 2 52. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 (New Bird on Census - #167) 53. Swainson's Thrush - 10 (New Census High - was 2) 54. Wood Thrush - 1 55. American Robin - 41 (1 nest) 56. Gray Catbird - 37 57. European Starling - 11 58. Cedar Waxwing - 1 59. Ovenbird - 2 (Tied Census High) 60. Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 (Tied Census High) 61. Northern Waterthrush - 1 62. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 63. Black-and-white Warbler - 3 (m) 64. Tennessee Warbler - 11 (m) (New Census High - was 4) 65. Nashville Warbler - 13 (m) (New Census High - was 5) 66. Mourning Warbler - 1 (m) (Tied Census High) 67. Common Yellowthroat - 41 (39m,1f,1*) (New Census High - was 40) 68. Hooded Warbler - 9 (m) 69. American Redstart - 10 (8m,2f) 70. Cape May Warbler - 1 (m) (Tied Census High) 71. Cerulean Warbler - 2 (m) 72. Northern Parula - 7 (m) (New Census High - was 1) 73. Magnolia Warbler - 10 (m) (New Census High - was 7) 74. Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 (m) (Tied Census High) 75. Blackburnian Warbler - 7 (m) (New Census High - was 2) 76. Yellow Warbler - 52 (44m,7f,1*) (New Census High - was 48) 77. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 10 (m) (New Census High - was 2) 78. Blackpoll Warbler - 2 (m) 79. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (m) (New Census High - was 1) 80. Palm Warbler - 2 81. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 28 (16m,12f) 82. Yellow-throated Warbler - 6 (m) 83. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (m) 84. Eastern Towhee - 6 (5m,1f) (Tied Census High) 85. Chipping Sparrow - 10 86. Song Sparrow - 50 87. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 88. Swamp Sparrow - 9 89. White-throated Sparrow - 2 90. White-crowned Sparrow - 2 91. Scarlet Tanager - 5 (2m,1f,2*) 92. Northern Cardinal - 54 (42m,11f,1*) 93. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 17 (13m,2f,2*) 94. Indigo Bunting - 17 (m) 95. Red-winged Blackbird - 77 (52m,25f - 4 nests) 96. Common Grackle - 30 (1 nest) 97. Brown-headed Cowbird - 18 (14m,4f) 98. Orchard Oriole - 7 (5m,1 immature m,1f) (Tied Census High) 99. Baltimore Oriole - 33 (28m,2f,3*) (New Census High - was 26) 100. House Finch - 6 (4m,1f,1* - 1 nest) 101. American Goldfinch - 29 (20m,5f,1?,3*) 102. House Sparrow - 12 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 5 2. Red-eared Turtle - 2 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 42 4. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 5 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES. 1. American Toad - many heard 2. Gray Treefrog - 3 (heard) 3. Western Chorus Frog - 3 (heard) 4. Green Frog - 3 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 6 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 7 2. Meadow Fritillary - 1 3. Eastern Comma - 1 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. 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