APRIL 29, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK - SUMMIT COUNTY.HIKE: Ira Trailhead to the Towpath Trail north to Bolanz Rd. to the Valley Trail to Butler's Trail to Wetmore Rd., Wetmore Trail to Valley Trail to Akron-Peninsula Rd.TIME: 7:05am-11:35am TEMP.: 46-51 COND.: Cool, gray & overcast; light mist from 10:05am-11:35am.FT.MI.: 4.75 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. - Eastern Chipmunk - 7 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 - Red Squirrel - 14 II. BIRDS: 71 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 28 (8 goslings) - Wood Duck - 16 (9m,7f) - Mallard - 8 (7m,1f) - Great Blue Heron - 6 - Turkey Vulture - 3 - Red-tailed Hawk - 3 - Virginia Rail - 2 (Ira Beaver Marsh) - Sora - 1 (calling at the Ira Beaver Marsh) - Killdeer - 1 - Spotted Sandpiper - 2 (along Cuyahoga River at Robinson Run) - Solitary Sandpiper - 2 (flooded field between Quick & Wetmore Rds.) - Mourning Dove - 7 - Chimney Swift - 1 - Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (1m,1f,1?,7*) - Downy Woodpecker - 5 (*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1m,2*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 6 (1m,5*) - Eastern Phoebe - 1 - White-eyed Vireo - 1 (along Valley Trail near Camp Mueller) - Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 (Ira Beaver Marsh boardwalk) - Blue-headed Vireo - 1 (along Wetmore Rd.) - Warbling Vireo - 2 (1 at Ira Trailhead parking lot & 1 at Ira Beaver Marsh boardwalk) - Blue Jay - 20 - American Crow - 7 - Tree Swallow - 13 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 7 - Bank Swallow - 4 (above Cuyahoga River at Robinson Run) - Barn Swallow - 14 - Black-capped Chickadee - 11 - Tufted Titmouse - 11 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 (1m,2?,3*) - House Wren - 4 - Winter Wren - 2 (1 along Butler's Trail at Langes Run & 1 along Wetmore Trail at Dickerson Run) - Carolina Wren - 2 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8 (1m,4?,3*) - Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (1m,1f) - Wood Thrush - 2 (1 along Towpath Trail north of Indian Springs trailer park & 1 along Butler's Trail) - American Robin - 16 - Gray Catbird - 2 (both along Towpath Trail - 1 at Marc Moon"indian in canoe" painting & 1 at Bolanz Rd. parking lot) - Brown Thrasher - 2 (1 along Valley Trail across from Camp Mueller & 1 in field at corner of Quick & Akron-Peninsula Rds.) - European Starling - 8 - Northern Waterthrush - 1 (along Towpath Trail between Bolanz Rd. lot & footbridge along corn field) - Blue-winged Warbler - 3 (m - 1 along Valley Trail across from Camp Mueller & 2 along Butler's Trail) - Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m - along Valley Trail across from Camp Mueller) - Prothonotary Warbler - 1 (m - at Ira Beaver Marsh at boardwalk) - Nashville Warbler - 1 (m - along Towpath Trail north of Indian Springs trailer park) - Common Yellowthroat - 9 (m) - Yellow Warbler - 15 (m) - Palm Warbler - 6 - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 17 (15m,2f) - Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (m - 1 along Towpath Trail north of Ira Beaver Marsh & 1 along Wetmore Rd.) - Eastern Towhee - 15 (13m,1f,1*) - Chipping Sparrow - 3 - Field Sparrow - 1 - Savannah Sparrow - 4 (in freshly plowed field northeast of Bolanz Rd. bridge over Cuyahoga River) - Song Sparrow - 34 - Swamp Sparrow - 5 - White-throated Sparrow - 21 - Scarlet Tanager - 1 (m - along Butler's Trail) - Northern Cardinal - 25 (19m,5f,1*) - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 (m) - Red-winged Blackbird - 55 (33m,22f) - Common Grackle - 13 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 7 (5m,1f,1*) - Orchard Oriole - 3 (2m,1 immature m) - Baltimore Oriole - 2 (m) - House Finch - 2 (1m,1*) - American Goldfinch - 22 (18m,2f,2?) - House Sparrow - 7 III. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. - Northern Spring Peeper - 4 (*) - Bullfrog - 1 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]