AUGUST 09, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 6:10am-3:20pm TEMP.: 52-81 COND.: Very foggy early, burning off, turning sunny & warm. OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 24 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 4. Red Squirrel - 11 5. Beaver - 2 (New Census High - previous was 1 - 5 different times) 6. Muskrat - 2 7. White-tailed Deer - 7 (two 4-pt bucks,4 does,1 fawn) II. BIRDS: 62 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 56 2. Wood Duck - 13 (3m,1 juvenile m,1f,1 juvenile f,7?) 3. Mallard - 1 (m) 4. Great Blue Heron - 8 5. Green Heron - 3 (1 juvenile) 6. Turkey Vulture - 5 7. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 8. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (1 juvenile) 9. Killdeer - 1 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 2 11. Rock Pigeon - 1 12. Mourning Dove - 5 13. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 14. Chimney Swift - 21 15. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1 juvenile m,1?,4*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 10 (2f,1?,7*) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (*) 19. Northern Flicker - 7 (2?,5*) 20. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*) 21. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 12 22. Acadian Flycatcher - 1 23. Eastern Phoebe - 5 24. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 25. Eastern Kingbird - 2 26. Warbling Vireo - 3 27. Red-eyed Vireo - 3 28. Blue Jay - 14 29. American Crow - 12 30. Purple Martin - 2 (New Census High - previous was 1 on 08/2013) 31. Tree Swallow - 15 32. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 33. Barn Swallow - 12 34. Black-capped Chickadee - 18 35. Tufted Titmouse - 10 36. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 (1f,1?,12*) 37. Carolina Wren - 10 38. House Wren - 1 39. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8 (5?,3*) 40. Wood Thrush - 1 41. American Robin - 30 (2 juvenile) 42. Gray Catbird - 20 43. European Starling - 25 44. Cedar Waxwing - 47 (5 immature) 45. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 46. Common Yellowthroat - 14 (4m,2 juvenile m,2f,3 juvenile f,3*) 47. Hooded Warbler - 2 (1m,1*) 48. Yellow Warbler - 1 (m) 49. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 50. Chipping Sparrow - 1 51. Field Sparrow - 2 52. Song Sparrow - 30 53. Swamp Sparrow - 7 54. Northern Cardinal - 48 (25m,1 juvenile m,6f,2 juvenile f,11*,3 juvenile *) 55. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (*) 56. Indigo Bunting - 9 (6m,3*) 57. Red-winged Blackbird - 138 (14m,6f,118?) 58. Common Grackle - 371 59. Baltimore Oriole - 3 (m) 60. House Finch - 3 (2?,1*) 61. American Goldfinch - 35 (16m,2f,5?,12*) 62. House Sparrow - 10 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 8 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 69 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 6 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 2 (*) 2. Bullfrog - 4 3. Green Frog - 15 V. FISHES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Gizzard Shad - many 2. Common Carp - 2 3. Creek Chub - many 4. Emerald Shiner - many 5. Largemouth Bass - 2 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 7 2. Cabbage White - 16 3. Clouded Sulphur - 2 4. Summer Azure - 4 5. Pearl Crescent - 1 6. Eastern Comma 7. Monarch - 2 8. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2 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]