JUNE 07, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 5:45am-3:15pm TEMP.: 44-81-78 COND.: Unseasonably cool early, turning sunny & warm. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Woodchuck - 1 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 46 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black morph) 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 5. Red Squirrel - 18 6. Muskrat - 2 7. White-tailed Deer - 16 (1 buck,14 does,1 fawn) II. BIRDS: 75 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 30 (4 goslings) 2. Wood Duck - 8 (3f,5 ducklings) 3. Mallard - 2 (m) 4. Great Blue Heron - 12 5. Green Heron - 1 6. Turkey Vulture - 12 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 leucistic) 9. Killdeer - 3 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 3 11. Mourning Dove - 16 12. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3 13. Chimney Swift - 8 14. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,2f) 15. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (2m,1f,1?,6*) 16. Downy Woodpecker - 11 (1m,1f,1?,8*) 17. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (*) 18. Northern Flicker - 9 (1m,2f,1?,5* - 1 nest) 19. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) 20. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) 21. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 12 22. Acadian Flycatcher - 10 (New High for Census - previous: 7) 23. Willow Flycatcher - 5 24. Eastern Phoebe - 5 25. Great Crested Flycatcher - 9 26. Eastern Kingbird - 1 27. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 28. Warbling Vireo - 24 29. Red-eyed Vireo - 20 30. Blue Jay - 9 31. American Crow - 8 32. Tree Swallow - 7 33. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 31 34. Bank Swallow - 9 35. Barn Swallow - 4 (1 nest) 36. Black-capped Chickadee - 7 37. Tufted Titmouse - 15 38. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (1m,1f,1?,5*) 39. Brown Creeper - 1 40. Carolina Wren - 6 41. House Wren - 4 42. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 13 (1m,1?,11*) 43. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*) 44. Wood Thrush - 1 45. American Robin - 31 (4 juvenile) 46. Gray Catbird - 34 47. European Starling - 11 48. Cedar Waxwing - 26 (1 nest) 49. Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 (Tied Census High) 50. Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (m) 51. Common Yellowthroat - 24 (23m,1f) 52. Hooded Warbler - 9 (7m,1f,1*) 53. American Redstart - 12 (11m,1f) 54. Cerulean Warbler - 3 (m) 55. Northern Parula - 2 (m) 56. Yellow Warbler - 37 (35m,1?,1*) 57. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (m) 58. Yellow-throated Warbler - 8 (m) 59. Eastern Towhee - 3 (m) 60. Chipping Sparrow - 8 61. Field Sparrow - 2 62. Song Sparrow - 61 63. Swamp Sparrow - 14 64. Scarlet Tanager - 4 (3m,1*) 65. Northern Cardinal - 43 (30m,5f,4*,4 juvenile *) 66. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 10 (9m,1f) 67. Indigo Bunting - 19 (16m,2f,1*) 68. Red-winged Blackbird - 60 (42m,18f - 1 nest) 69. Common Grackle - 48 70. Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 (m) 71. Orchard Oriole - 3 (m) 72. Baltimore Oriole - 13 (m - 1 nest) 73. House Finch - 5 (3m,1?,1*) 74. American Goldfinch - 16 (5m,2f,5?,4*) 75. House Sparrow - 19 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 13 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 17 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 7 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 1 2. Green Frog - 9 V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 1 2. Creek Chub - 8 3. Pumpkinseed - 2 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 10 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2 2. Cabbage White - 3 3. Clouded Sulphur - 2 4. Harvester - 1 5. Summer Azure - 1 6. Pearl Crescent - 2 7. Red Admiral - 1 8. Little Wood Satyr - 5 9. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2 10. Hobomok Skipper - 1 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]