SEPTEMBER 02, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.ROUTE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 6:20am - 4:35pm TEMP.: 55~79~75COND.: Cool & foggy until 7:45am; fog burning off, mostly sunny until 9:50am then clouds/sun mix rest of day; winds light & variable.TRAIL COND.: Damp early, turning dry & ideal (some sections between Peninsula & the Ira Beaver Marsh had newly laid crushed limestone; section from Ira Rd. south to Lock 25 had newly laid asphalt by Perrin Asphalt to fix buckled sections of old asphalt trail.)RIVER COND.: Still very low with many rock and sandbars exposed.FT.MI.: 13.88 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. - Mink - 1 (First September Record on Census) - Eastern Chipmunk - 28 - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2 (black morph) - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Red Squirrel - 16 - Eastern Cottontail - 2 - White-tailed Deer - 3 (spike buck,2 fawns) II. BIRDS: 68 SPECIES, 2,451 INDIVIDUALS. (New Census High for Individuals in September - previous was 2,108 in 2014)(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 59 - Wood Duck - 43 (8m,21f,9?) - Mallard - 15 (10m,5f) - Great Blue Heron - 9 - Green Heron - 10 (2 juvenile - New Census High - previous was 9 on 08/2012) - Turkey Vulture - 16 - Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) - Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) - Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 - Broad-winged Hawk - 1 - Red-tailed Hawk - 7 - Killdeer - 3 - Spotted Sandpiper - 2 - Solitary Sandpiper - 1 - Rock Pigeon - 45 - Mourning Dove - 8 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (calling near Brandywine Creek - First September Record on Census) - Chimney Swift - 8 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (1f,1?) - Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1?) - Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 (1 calling,1 juvenile) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 12 (2?,10*) - Downy Woodpecker - 14 (2m,2f,10*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 7 (1f,1?,5*) - Northern Flicker - 5 (1m,1?,3*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*) - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (?) - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 - Acadian Flycatcher - 1 - Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 - Eastern Phoebe - 5 - Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 - Warbling Vireo - 12 - Philadelphia Vireo - 1 - Red-eyed Vireo - 3 - Blue Jay - 35 - American Crow - 124 - Purple Martin - 1 - Tree Swallow - 2 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 - Barn Swallow - 9 - Black-capped Chickadee - 23 - Tufted Titmouse - 16 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (1m,1f,3?,5*) - House Wren - 1 - Carolina Wren - 9 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 (f) - Eastern Bluebird - 1 (*) - Veery - 1 - American Robin - 73 - Gray Catbird - 17 - European Starling - 453 - Cedar Waxwing - 139 - Tennessee Warbler - 1 (m) - Common Yellowthroat - 8 (2f,1?,5*) - Hooded Warbler - 1 (*) - American Redstart - 1 (juvenile m) - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (*) - Song Sparrow - 12 - Scarlet Tanager - 3 (m) - Northern Cardinal - 31 (8m,4f,1 juvenile f,15*,3 juvenile *) - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 (1f,1*) - Indigo Bunting - 2 (m) - Red-winged Blackbird - 36 (15m,1f,20?) - Common Grackle - 1,016 - Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (f) - House Finch - 2 (1f,1*) - American Goldfinch - 27 (7m,7f,1 juvenile,6?,6*) - House Sparrow - 71 - Unidentified Passerines - 12 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. - Common Snapping Turtle - 2 - Red-eared Turtle - 4 - Midland Painted Turtle - 89 - Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. - Bullfrog - 1 - Green Frog - 2 V. FISHES: 6 SPECIES. - Common Carp - 2 (Cuyahoga River) - Golden Shiner - 1 (caught by Green Heron in canal south of Ohio Turnpike) - Creek Chub - 34 (feeder creeks) - Hornyhead Chub - 3 (feeder creek) - Largemouth Bass - 5 (3 in Cuyahoga River, 2 in canal at Ira Beaver Marsh) - Bluegill - 5 (canal at Ira Beaver Marsh) VI. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES. - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2 - Cabbage Butterfly - 17 - Clouded Sulphur - 1 - Summer Azure - 1 - Great Spangled Fritillary - 1 - Pearl Crescent - 3 - Monarch - 3 - Silver-spotted Skipper - 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]