APRIL 15, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK - SUMMIT COUNTY.HIKE: Ira Trailhead to Towpath Trail north to Valley Bridle Trail to Furnace Run Loop to Rim Trail to Plateau Trail to OakHill Trail to Valley Picnic Area on Riverview Rd.TIME: 6:30am-10:45am TEMP.: 38-58 COND.: Chilly early, giving way to warm, sunny with blue skies.FT.MI.: 5.6 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 4 SPECIES. - Eastern Chipmunk - 8 - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 7 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Red Squirrel - 1 II. BIRDS: 50 SPECIES. (NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 17 (3 nests) - Wood Duck - 17 (9m,8f) - Mallard - 9 (5m,4f) - Common Loon - 1 (appeared to lift off from Indigo Lake, swing over Ira Beaver Marsh & head north) - Pied-billed Grebe - 2 - Great Blue Heron - 3 - Turkey Vulture - 1 - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (*) - Broad-winged Hawk - 2 (in pine grove at top of Furnace Run Loop) - Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 immature) - Virginia Rail - 1 - Mourning Dove - 5 - Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13 (2m,1f,3?,7*) - Downy Woodpecker - 8 (3m,2f,3* - one pair copulating) - Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (*) - Northern Flicker - 5 (*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) - Eastern Phoebe - 3 - Blue Jay - 11 - American Crow - 4 - Tree Swallow - 11 - Black-capped Chickadee - 19 (1 nest) - Tufted Titmouse - 12 - Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (* - in pine grove at top of Furnace Run Loop) - White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (*) - Winter Wren - 1 (near Sylvan Pond) - Carolina Wren - 3 - Golden-crowned Kinglet - 16 (1f,10?,5*) - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (2m,1?) - American Robin - 20 - Brown Thrasher - 1 (just south of Indian Springs Trailer Park but visible from Towpath Trail) - European Starling - 9 - Pine Warbler - 1 (in pine grove at top of Furnace Run Loop) - Eastern Towhee - 3 (m) - American Tree Sparrow - 2 - Chipping Sparrow - 3 - Fox Sparrow - 5 - Song Sparrow - 11 - Swamp Sparrow - 4 - White-throated Sparrow - 8 - Northern Cardinal - 19 (16m,3f) - Red-winged Blackbird - 22 (17m,5f) - Rusty Blackbird - 2 (m) - Common Grackle - 14 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 (m) - House Finch - 1 (*) - Pine Siskin - 1 (in pine grove at top of Furnace Run Loop) - American Goldfinch - 9 (4m,1f,4*) - House Sparrow - 10 III. REPTILES: 1 SPECIES. - Midland Painted Turtle - 24 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. - Northern Spring Peeper - 5 (heard) V. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES. - Eastern Comma - 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]