JULY 13, 2013 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 5:30am-12:55pm TEMP.: 67-78 COND.: Cloudy; rain from 7:50am-8:30am; sprinkles from 8:30am-9:00am; rain again from 9:00am-9:25am; turning partly sunny then back to cloudy & warmer. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES. 1. Big Brown Bat - 1 2. Woodchuck - 1 3. Eastern Chipmunk - 8 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 5. Red Squirrel - 14 6. Muskrat - 2 7. Eastern Cottontail - 2 (1 young) 8. White-tailed Deer - 4 (does) II. BIRDS: 66 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 9 2. Wood Duck - 21 (6f,15 young) 3. Mallard - 2 (f) 4. Great Blue Heron - 6 5. Green Heron - 3 (juvenile) 6. Turkey Vulture - 9 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 9. Killdeer - 1 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 11. Rock Pigeon - 12 12. Mourning Dove - 14 13. Chimney Swift - 12 14. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?) 15. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1*) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 (1 juvenile m,1f,2*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 11 (1m,3f,2?,5*) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (*) 19. Northern Flicker - 3 (*) 20. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) 21. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) 22. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6 23. Acadian Flycatcher - 1 24. Eastern Phoebe - 1 25. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 26. Eastern Kingbird - 2 27. Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 28. Warbling Vireo - 15 29. Red-eyed Vireo - 11 30. Blue Jay - 13 (1 juvenile) 31. American Crow - 13 32. Tree Swallow - 2 33. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 26 34. Bank Swallow - 1 35. Barn Swallow - 8 36. Black-capped Chickadee - 12 37. Tufted Titmouse - 12 (2 juvenile) 38. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (*) 39. Carolina Wren - 6 40. House Wren - 1 41. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 (*) 42. Veery - 1 43. American Robin - 69 (10 juvenile) 44. Gray Catbird - 32 (1 juvenile) 45. European Starling - 15 46. Cedar Waxwing - 15 47. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 48. Common Yellowthroat - 28 49. Hooded Warbler - 6 (m) 50. Yellow Warbler - 5 (2m,3f) 51. Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (m) 52. Eastern Towhee - 2 (m) 53. Chipping Sparrow - 4 54. Field Sparrow - 1 55. Song Sparrow - 59 56. Swamp Sparrow - 12 57. Scarlet Tanager - 4 (3m,1*) 58. Northern Cardinal - 42 (27m,7f,6*,2 juv.*) 59. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (*) 60. Indigo Bunting - 25 (24m,1*) 61. Red-winged Blackbird - 67 (24m,14m,3 juvenile,26?) 62. Common Grackle - 271 63. Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 (3m,2?) 64. House Finch - 8 (3m,2f,2?,1 juv.*) 65. American Goldfinch - 33 (14m,3f,3?,13*) 66. House Sparrow - 23 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 2 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 3 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES. 1. American Toad - 1 2. Gray Treefrog - 3 3. Bullfrog - 2 4. Green Frog - 6 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 1 2. Bluegill - 1 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 6 2. Summer Azure - 3 3. Red-spotted Purple - 1 4. Great Spangled Fritillary - 1 5. Little Wood Satyr - 1 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Oh. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]