OCTOBER 01, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 7:25am - 4:35pm TEMP.: 57~71~69 COND.: Gray & overcast early; sun breaking through at 10:45am, turning partly sunny then mostly cloudy; light south breeze all day. TRAIL COND.: Fair; wet & muddy with puddles in some spots due to rain from previous three days; some construction fencing put up along old Jaite paper mill for contaminant clean-up at site; construction at bridge connector over trail from Akron Water Pollution Control Station to Akron Compost Facility; most fencing removed along sewer trunk line between Akron Compost Facility & Merriman Valley for E.P.A.-mandated repairs to sewer trunk line. RIVER COND.: High, swift and muddy due to previous three days of rain from stalled low front over much of Ohio; most sandbars completely covered.FT.MI.: 14.05 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 10 SPECIES, 93 INDIVIDUALS, 1 SPECIES NEW TO CENSUS. - Northern River Otter - 1 (at Ira Beaver Marsh - New Species on Census - now at 19 species since 01/01/2010) - Woodchuck - 2 - Eastern Chipmunk - 57 - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 (all black morph) - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 - Red Squirrel - 20 - American Beaver - 1 - Common Muskrat - 1 - Eastern Cottontail - 2 - White-tailed Deer - 3 (doe) II. BIRDS: 71 SPECIES, (New October High), 1,913 INDIVIDUALS.(m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 109 - Wood Duck - 15 (7m,8f) - American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f - at Ira Beaver Marsh) - Mallard - 11 (1m,1f,9?) - Wild Turkey - 13 (3m,10f - at Boston Cemetery - First October Record on Census) - Pied-billed Grebe - 1 (Ira Beaver Marsh) - Great Blue Heron - 6 - Green Heron - 3 (1 adult,2 immature - First October Record on Census) - Turkey Vulture - 19 - Bald Eagle - 1 (adult - over Ira Beaver Marsh) - Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (1 immature) - American Coot - 1 (at Ira Beaver Marsh - First October Record on Census) - Killdeer - 6 - Rock Pigeon - 2 - Mourning Dove - 13 - Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (red morph - first red morph on census, all prior have been gray morph) - Chimney Swift - 65 - Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 26 (7m,2f,3?,14*) - Downy Woodpecker - 20 (6m,6f,4?,4*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 7 (1m,2f,4*) - Northern Flicker - 9 (2m,1?,6*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (1?,3*) - Merlin - 1 (m - atop a sycamore snag near Sand Run - Tied Census High from 7 other occasions) - Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f - "Gatewood" at the Ohio Turnpike bridge) - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 - Eastern Phoebe - 13 (New Census High - previous was 10 on 04/2015) - Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (New Census High - previous was 1 on 07/2010, 07/2015 & 10/2015) - Blue Jay - 51 - American Crow - 221 - Black-capped Chickadee - 31 - Tufted Titmouse - 9 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 13 (2m,3f,8*) - Winter Wren - 1 (First October Record on Census) - Carolina Wren - 10 - Eastern Bluebird - 27 (6m,7f,13?,1*) - Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 (Tied Census High from 05/2014, 05/2015 & 10/2015) - Swainson's Thrush - 4 - American Robin - 73 - Gray Catbird - 9 - European Starling - 29 - Cedar Waxwing - 201 - Northern Waterthrush - 2 - Black-and-white Warbler - 1 (m - First October Record on Census) - Tennessee Warbler - 4 (2m,2f) - Nashville Warbler - 4 (2m,2f) - Common Yellowthroat - 12 (5m,3f,4*) - American Redstart - 5 (2m,3f) - Magnolia Warbler - 1 (f) - Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 (m) - Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m) - Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (m - First October Record on Census) - Blackpoll Warbler - 4 - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 27 - Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 (2m,3f) - Unidentified Warbler Fly-over - 3 - Eastern Towhee - 1 (m) - Chipping Sparrow - 1 - Field Sparrow - 3 - Song Sparrow - 33 - Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 (Tied Census High from 05/2010 & 10/2013) - Swamp Sparrow - 5 - White-crowned Sparrow - 1 - Scarlet Tanager - 1 (m) - Northern Cardinal - 35 (7m,7f,17*,4 juvenile *) - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (1f,3*) - Red-winged Blackbird - 114 (29m,11f,74?) - Rusty Blackbird - 3 (2m,1f) - Common Grackle - 447 - Unidentified Blackbird Fly-over - 8 - House Finch - 9 (4m,3f,2*) - American Goldfinch - 26 - House Sparrow - 61 - Unidentified Passerines - 23 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. - Common Snapping Turtle - 2 - Red-eared Turtle - 3 - Midland Painted Turtle - 89 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. - Northern Spring Peeper - 21 (heard only) - Bullfrog - 2 - Green Frog - 1 V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES. - Common Carp - 2 - Goldfish - 3 (in water at Red Lock) - Creek Chub - 1 - Pumpkinseed - 8 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 4 SPECIES. - Cabbage Butterfly - 8 - Clouded Sulphur - 2 - Viceroy - 1 - Monarch - 3 VII. MOTHS (of note from September's census) - Large Maple Spanworm Moth - 1 - Ironweed Borer Moth - 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. 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