JULY 11, 2015 - Monthly Cuyahoga Valley Towpath Trail Census.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 6:00am-2:35pm TEMP.: 55-83COND.: Heavy fog from 6:00am-8:00am; fog burning off, becoming sunny, calm & warm.FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. - Shorttail Shrew - 1 - Eastern Chipmunk - 29 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Red Squirrel - 18 - Muskrat - 2 - Eastern Cottontail - 6 - White-tailed Deer - 2 (1 doe,1 fawn) II. BIRDS: 65 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 2 - Wood Duck - 5 (f) - Double-crested Cormorant - 1 (first July record) - Great Blue Heron - 1 - Green Heron - 4 - Turkey Vulture - 5 - Red-tailed Hawk - 9 (3 immatures) - Killdeer - 3 - Rock Pigeon - 10 - Mourning Dove - 12 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (heard calling - first July record) - Chimney Swift - 7 - Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1?) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1?,3*,2 immatures) - Downy Woodpecker - 10 (1f,9*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (*) - Northern Flicker - 11 (1m,2f,4?,4*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) - American Kestrel - 3 (1m with 2 immatures at Akron Compost Facility - New Census High - previous was 2 on 09/2014) - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5 - Acadian Flycatcher - 5 - Willow Flycatcher - 1 - Eastern Phoebe - 2 - Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 - Eastern Kingbird - 6 - White-eyed Vireo - 1 - Yellow-throated Vireo - 4 - Blue-headed Vireo - 1 (Tied Census High on 07/2010) - Warbling Vireo - 9 - Red-eyed Vireo - 13 - Blue Jay - 15 (2 immatures) - American Crow - 9 (2 immatures) - Tree Swallow - 12 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 - Barn Swallow - 6 - Black-capped Chickadee - 10 - Tufted Titmouse - 8 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 (2m,1?,6*) - Carolina Wren - 2 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 (1?,2*) - Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*) - Wood Thrush - 2 - American Robin - 51 (4 immatures,1 nest) - Gray Catbird - 22 - European Starling - 26 - Cedar Waxwing - 27 (1 nestling,3 nests) - Common Yellowthroat - 32 (31m,1*) - Hooded Warbler - 3 (m) - Yellow Warbler - 13 (4m,4f,2?,3*) - Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (m) - Eastern Towhee - 2 (1m,1*) - Chipping Sparrow - 2 - Field Sparrow - 1 - Song Sparrow - 49 - Swamp Sparrow - 18 (New Census High - previous was 17 on 07/2011) - Scarlet Tanager - 7 (3m,2f,2 immatures) - Northern Cardinal - 31 (13m,3f,8*,5 juvenile *,2 fledglings) - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (3m,1f) - Indigo Bunting - 26 (24m,2f) - Red-winged Blackbird - 42 (23m,17f,2 immatures) - Common Grackle - 324 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (3m,3f,1 immature,1*) - House Finch - 2 (1m,1f) - American Goldfinch - 30 (12m,1f,4?,13*) - House Sparrow - 31 REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. - Common Snapping Turtle - 6 - Red-eared Turtle - 1 - Midland Painted Turtle - 129 - Eastern Spiny Softshell - 7 AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. - Bullfrog - 3 - Green Frog - 32 FISHES: 1 SPECIES. - Creek Chub - 4 BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES. - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 - Cabbage Butterfly - 12 - Great Spangled Fritillary - 1 - Pearl Crescent - 1 - Red-spotted Purple - 1 - Viceroy - 1 - Northern Pearly Eye - 1 - Silver-spotted 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]