JULY 08, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 5:25am - 1:30pm TEMP.: 70~86 COND.: Overcast with light sprinkles at start; sprinkles ending. Rain shower from 6:50am - 7:10am; Front moving out from the west turning mostly sunny with occasional gray clouds not producing rain; then turning sunny, hot and humid with light and variable winds. TRAIL COND.: Average: wet and slick in places from rain, puddles and occasional mud. RIVER COND.: Still very low and shallow in places, great visibility, many rock and sandbars exposed.FT.MI.: 13.43 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 8 SPECIES. - Shorttail Shrew - 1 - Eastern Chipmunk - 28 - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Red Squirrel - 19 - Beaver - 1 - Muskrat - 2 - White-tailed Deer - 8 (4 doe,4 fawn) II. BIRDS: 79 SPECIES (New High for July - previous was 76 in 2013), 1,293 TOTAL BIRDS.(NOTE: m = male, f = female, ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 39 - Wood Duck - 22 (2m,3f,6 juvenile,11 ducklings) - Mallard - 4 (1m,2f,1 juvenile) - Great Blue Heron - 10 (2 juvenile) - Green Heron - 4 - Turkey Vulture - 11 - Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1m,1 immature m - Tied Census High from 12 different occasions) - Broad-winged Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (1 juvenile) - Killdeer - 14 - Spotted Sandpiper - 9 - Solitary Sandpiper - 1 (First July Record on Census) - American Woodcock - 2 (First July Record on Census) - Rock Pigeon - 3 - Mourning Dove - 10 - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 3 (all calling - Tied Census High from 12/2015) - Chimney Swift - 2 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 (1f,1?,2* - Tied Census High from 09/2011) - Belted Kingfisher - 4 (1m,2?,1*) - Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 (2?,5*) - Downy Woodpecker - 9 (3f,6*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,1 juvenile m,3f,1?,3*) - Northern Flicker - 6 (2m,1?,4*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - "Rocky" at Ohio Turnpike bridge) - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13 - Acadian Flycatcher - 6 - Willow Flycatcher - 1 - Eastern Phoebe - 5 - Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 - Eastern Kingbird - 7 - Yellow-throated Vireo - 4 - Warbling Vireo - 14 - Red-eyed Vireo - 13 - Blue Jay - 19 (2 juvenile) - American Crow - 11 (1 juvenile) - Tree Swallow - 7 (1 juvenile) - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 16 (4 juvenile) - Bank Swallow - 1 - Barn Swallow - 12 (2 juvenile) - Black-capped Chickadee - 24 (2 juvenile) - Tufted Titmouse - 22 (3 juvenile) - White-breasted Nuthatch - 16 (*) - Carolina Wren - 11 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 6 (1m,1f,3?,1*) - Eastern Bluebird - 4 (1m,1f,1 juvenile,1*) - Veery - 2 - Wood Thrush - 2 - American Robin - 51(5 juvenile) - Gray Catbird - 24 - Brown Thrasher - 2 (juvenile - New Census High - previous was 1 on 04/2012) - European Starling - 28 - Cedar Waxwing - 12 - Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 - Common Yellowthroat - 30 (29m,1f) - Hooded Warbler - 7 (m) - American Redstart - 1 (m) - Cerulean Warbler - 1 (m) - Yellow Warbler - 7 (2m,5 juvenile) - Yellow-throated Warbler - 4 (m) - Eastern Towhee - 4 (3m,1*) - Chipping Sparrow - 1 - Field Sparrow - 2 - Song Sparrow - 53 - Swamp Sparrow - 18 (Tied Census High from 07/2015) - Scarlet Tanager - 4 (3m,1f - 1 nest in sycamore tree) - Northern Cardinal - 37 (17m,1 juvenile m,4f,1 juvenile f,6*,8 juvenile *) - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 (1m,1f) - Indigo Bunting - 15 (m) - Red-winged Blackbird - 39 (32m,7f) - Common Grackle - 461 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (6m,1f,1 juvenile) - Orchard Oriole - 2 (1m,1f - 1 nest in sycamore tree) - Baltimore Oriole - 7 (1m,2f,1 immature,2 juvenile,1*) - House Finch - 3 (*) - American Goldfinch - 19 (9m,1f,1?,8*) - House Sparrow - 28 - Unidentified Passerines - 19 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. - Common Snapping Turtle - 2 - Red-eared Turtle - 1 - Midland Painted Turtle - 65 - Eastern Spiny Softshell - 5 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES. - American Toad - 4 - Gray Treefrog - 2 (heard only) - Bullfrog - 2 - Green Frog - 18 V. FISHES: 9 SPECIES. - Common Carp - 2 - Golden Shiner - 60+ (Ira Beaver Marsh) - Creek Chub - 11 - Common White Sucker - 1 (Cuyahoga River) - Northern Hog Sucker - 4 (Yellow Creek) - Rock Bass - 1 (Ira Beaver Marsh) - Largemouth Bass - 2 (Cuyahoga River) - Bluegill - 6 (Ira Beaver Marsh) - Pumpkinseed - 1 (Ira Beaver Marsh) VI. BUTTERFLIES: 11 SPECIES. - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 - Cabbage Butterfly - 22 - Clouded Sulphur - 2 - Summer Azure - 1 - Great Spangled Fritillary - 2 - Pearl Crescent - 9 - Red Admiral - 1 - Northern Pearly Eye - 1 - Little Wood Satyr - 1 - Silver-spotted Skipper - 2 - Least Skipper - 1 Douglas W. 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