AUGUST 05, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 5:50am-2:00pm TEMP.: 66~92 COND.: Bright, clouds/sun mix, turning hot & humid with light, south breeze. TRAIL COND.: Dry & ideal. RIVER COND.: Muddy from last week's thunderstorm, but still very low with many rock & sandbars exposed. FT.MI.: 13.63 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 10 SPECIES, 48 INDIVIDUALS, 1 SPECIES NEW TO CENSUS. - Little Brown Myotis - 1 - Striped Skunk - 1 (New Species on Census - now at 18 Mammals total since 01/01/2010) - Woodchuck - 1 (First August Record on Census) - Eastern Chipmunk - 17 - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (1 black morph) - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 - Red Squirrel - 16 - Beaver - 1 - Eastern Cottontail - 1 - White-tailed Deer - 6 (10-pt buck,8-pt buck,2 doe,2 fawn) II. BIRDS: 64 SPECIES (New August High - previous was 63 in 2015), 796 INDIVIDUALS. (NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 3 - Wood Duck - 34 (2m,1f,4 juvenile m,12 juvenile f,15 unknown juvenile) - Mallard - 15 (5f,10 juvenile) - Great Blue Heron - 12 - Green Heron - 6 (2 juvenile) - Turkey Vulture - 12 - Broad-winged Hawk - 2 (Tied Census High from 06/2012, 08/2013 & 09/2015) - Red-tailed Hawk - 9 (2 juvenile) - Killdeer - 11 - Spotted Sandpiper - 4 - Solitary Sandpiper - 1 - American Woodcock - 1 (First August Record on Census) - Rock Pigeon - 2 - Mourning Dove - 10 - Great Horned Owl - 1 (calling at Red Lock - First August Record on Census & Tied Census High from 03/2016) - Chimney Swift - 26 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (1f,1*) - Belted Kingfisher - 5 (2m,1f,1?,1*) - Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (1 juvenile) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (5*,1 juvenile) - Downy Woodpecker - 11 (5m,3f,3*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (1f,1?,3*) - Northern Flicker - 8 (2m,1f,1?,4*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*) - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - "Rocky" at the Ohio Turnpike bridge) - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 7 - Acadian Flycatcher - 2 - Eastern Phoebe - 2 - Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 - Eastern Kingbird - 4 - White-eyed Vireo - 1 - Red-eyed Vireo - 6 - Blue Jay - 28 (2 juvenile) - American Crow - 10 - Purple Martin - 2 - Tree Swallow - 25 - Barn Swallow - 9 - Black-capped Chickadee - 13 - Tufted Titmouse - 11 - Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (m - First August Record on Census & Tied Census High from 10/2011) - White-breasted Nuthatch - 15 (2m,3?,10*) - House Wren - 1 - Carolina Wren - 7 - Eastern Bluebird - 1 (m) - American Robin - 46 (6 juvenile) - Gray Catbird - 18 - European Starling - 15 - Cedar Waxwing - 19 (4 juvenile) - Common Yellowthroat - 7 (1m,1?,5*) - Hooded Warbler - 3 (m) - Yellow Warbler - 1 (m) - Eastern Towhee - 2 (1m,1*) - Field Sparrow - 2 - Song Sparrow - 14 - Swamp Sparrow - 5 - Scarlet Tanager - 3 (2m,1f) - Northern Cardinal - 26 (9m,5f,9*,3 juvenile *) - Indigo Bunting - 3 (2m,1f) - Red-winged Blackbird - 12 (4m,6f,2?) - Common Grackle - 35 - Orchard Oriole - 2 (f - First August Record on Census) - House Finch - 1 (m) - American Goldfinch - 31 (19m,3f,1?,8*) - House Sparrow - 4 - Unidentified Passerines - 12 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. - Common Snapping Turtle - 6 - Midland Painted Turtle - 62 - Eastern Spiny Softshell - 3 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. - Gray Treefrog - 1 - Green Frog - 6 V. FISHES: 5 SPECIES. - Common Carp - 2 - Creek Chub - 63 - Northern Hog Sucker - 6 - Largemouth Bass - 1 - Bluegill - 6 (2 caught by Green Herons) VI. BUTTERFLIES: 10 SPECIES. - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 6 - Cabbage Butterfly - 23 - Summer Azure - 1 - Pearl Crescent - 3 - Question Mark - 1 - Eastern Comma - 1 - Viceroy - 1 - Northern Pearly Eye - 1 - Monarch - 5 - Silver-spotted Skipper - 6 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]