JUNE 04, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley - with stops at both Trail Mix in Peninsula & Szalay's Farm Market on Bolanz Rd.TIME: 5:30am~2:35pm TEMP.: 53~73 COND.: Cloudy all day with very light sprinkles from 8:35am~8:40am; very light sprinkles again at 1:10pm turning to steady sprinkles from 1:30pm~2:00pm. TRAIL COND.: Excellent. RIVER COND.: Very low & clear due to lack of rain.FT.MI.: 13.63 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES, 111 TOTAL MAMMALS. - Mink - 1 - Eastern Chipmunk - 73 - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 - Red Squirrel - 25 - Muskrat - 2 - Eastern Cottontail - 3 - White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe) II. BIRDS: 79 SPECIES, 1,120 TOTAL BIRDS.(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 52 (19 young) - Wood Duck - 24 (5m,8f,1?,1*,9 ducklings) - Mallard - 12 (8m,4f) - Great Blue Heron - 15 - Green Heron - 2 - Turkey Vulture - 14 - Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 juvenile) - Killdeer - 8 - Spotted Sandpiper - 7 - Herring Gull - 1 - Rock Pigeon - 4 - Mourning Dove - 13 - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 9 (New Census High - previous was 4 on 06/02/2012 & 09/08/2012) - Chimney Swift - 6 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (? - divebombing juvenile Red-tailed Hawk) - Belted Kingfisher - 6 (3m,1f,2?) - Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 (1 nest at Stanford Swamp) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13 (1f,12*) - Downy Woodpecker - 6 (2?,2*,2 juvenile - 1 nest in a dead buckeye tree limb) - Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (*) - Northern Flicker - 7 (1m,3f,1?,2*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1?,2*) - American Kestrel - 1 (m - at the Akron Water Pollution Control Station - First Record on June Census) - Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f - "Rocky" & "Gatewood" at the Ohio Turnpike bridge) - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13 - Acadian Flycatcher - 7 - Willow Flycatcher - 2 - Eastern Phoebe - 4 - Great Crested Flycatcher - 9 (1 nest in a sycamore snag above "Deep Lock" - Lock 28) - Eastern Kingbird - 6 - White-eyed Vireo - 1 - Yellow-throated Vireo - 9 - Warbling Vireo - 27 - Red-eyed Vireo - 28 (New Census High - previous was 25 on 06/04/2011) - Blue Jay - 23 (1 juvenile) - American Crow - 5 - Tree Swallow - 11 (1 nest in a black willow snag) - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 14 - Bank Swallow - 1 - Barn Swallow - 5 - Black-capped Chickadee - 16 - Tufted Titmouse - 21 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (1m,2*) - House Wren - 4 - Carolina Wren - 8 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 14 (2m,1f,4?,7* - 2 nests: 1 in an ash tree and 1 in a sycamore tree) - Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*) - Veery - 5 - Wood Thrush - 5 (New Census High - previous was 4 on 06/01/2013 & 07/05/2013) - American Robin - 49 (1 juvenile - 1 nest in an elm tree) - Gray Catbird - 28 (1 nest in a multiflora rose bush) - European Starling - 39 - Cedar Waxwing - 26 (8 nests: 6 in sycamore tree, 1 in black walnut tree & 1 in autumn-olive bush) - Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 (singing north of "Deep Lock" - Lock 28) - Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (m) - Common Yellowthroat - 23 (m) - Hooded Warbler - 5 (m) - American Redstart - 13 (m) - Cerulean Warbler - 2 (m) - Yellow Warbler - 43 (39m,2f,2?) - Yellow-throated Warbler - 3 (m) - Eastern Towhee - 6 (m) - Chipping Sparrow - 1 - Field Sparrow - 3 - Song Sparrow - 61 - Swamp Sparrow - 14 - Scarlet Tanager - 3 (m) - Northern Cardinal - 56 (44m,6f,6*) - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 13 (12m,1f) - Indigo Bunting - 23 (22m,1f) - Red-winged Blackbird - 82 (64m,18f) - Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (Tied Census High from 04/02/2010 - in field between I-271 & Ohio Turnpike bridges - First June Record on Census) - Common Grackle - 46 (2 juvenile) - Brown-headed Cowbird - 24 (20m,2f,2?)\ - Orchard Oriole - 8 (7m,1 immature m - New Census High - previous was 7 on four different occasions) - Baltimore Oriole - 14 (13m,1f) - House Finch - 5 (2m,3*) - American Goldfinch - 30 (9m,5f,14?,2*) - House Sparrow - 31 - Unidentified Passerines - 8 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. - Common Snapping Turtle - 3 - Midland Painted Turtle - 18 - Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. - Gray Treefrog - 3 (heard only) - Bullfrog - 5 - Green Frog - 23 V. FISHES: 3 SPECIES. - Common Carp - 2 - Creek Chub - 4 - Bluegill - 4 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2 - Cabbage Butterfly - 1 - Little Wood Satyr - 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]