SEPTEMBER 06, 2014 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 6:50am-3:00pm TEMP.: 67-73-63 COND.: Overcast all day; rain from 9:35am-10:15am; intermittent mist/sprinkles until 1:00pm; briefly letting up; steady light rain from 1:10pm-1:40pm; briefly stopping; light rain/sprinkles from 1:55pm-3:00pm. FT. MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 26 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 4. Red Squirrel - 9 5. White-tailed Deer - 4 (1 doe,3 yearlings) II. BIRDS: 56 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 18 2. Wood Duck - 9 (3m,6?) 3. Mallard - 2 (?) 4. Double-crested Cormorant - 1 5. Great Blue Heron - 8 6. Green Heron - 4 (2 juvenile) 7. Turkey Vulture - 15 8. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 9. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 juvenile) 10. Killdeer - 4 11. Mourning Dove - 8 12. Chimney Swift - 208 (New Census High - previous was 123 on 09/07/2013) 13. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (f) 14. Belted Kingfisher - 5 (2m,2?,1*) 15. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (juvenile) 16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 (1m,1f,3?,3*) 17. Downy Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,1?,3*) 18. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (1m,1f,2?,1*) 19. Northern Flicker - 7 (2?,5*) 20. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (2?,2*) 21. American Kestrel - 2 (m) (New Census High - previous was 1 on 04/02/2010) 22. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) 23. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 24. Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 3 25. Eastern Phoebe - 2 26. Warbling Vireo - 4 27. Red-eyed Vireo - 1 28. Blue Jay - 38 29. American Crow - 25 30. Tree Swallow - 7 31. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 32. Barn Swallow - 3 33. Black-capped Chickadee - 26 34. Tufted Titmouse - 15 35. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 (2f,1?,4*) 36. Carolina Wren - 10 37. American Robin - 116 38. Gray Catbird - 19 39. European Starling - 270 40. Cedar Waxwing - 367 41. Common Yellowthroat - 4 (2m,2*) 42. Hooded Warbler - 3 (m) 43. American Redstart - 1 (f) 44. Yellow Warbler - 1 (f) 45. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m) 46. Song Sparrow - 7 47. Swamp Sparrow - 1 48. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (1m,1f) 49. Northern Cardinal - 30 (4m,1 juv.m,3f,14*,8 juv.*) 50. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (1 juv.m,1f,1?) 51. Indigo Bunting - 1 (m) 52. Red-winged Blackbird - 34 (2m,32 mixed flock) 53. Common Grackle - 553 54. House Finch - 4 (2m,2f) 55. American Goldfinch - 25 (5m,8f,10?,2*) 56. House Sparrow - 167 (New Census High - previous was 72 on 12/03/2011) ??. Unidentified Passerines - 31 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Midland Painted Turtle - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Northern Spring Peeper - 13 (*) 2. Green Frog - 3 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]