MAY 12, 2017 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 5:50am - 4:05pm TEMP.: 53 ~ 60. COND.: Cloudy and cool all day. TRAIL COND.: Fair - some puddling and muddy spots. RIVER COND.: Higher than normal and muddy - few rock and sandbars visible. FT.MI.: 13.51 OBS.: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES, 52 TOTAL. 1. Eastern Chipmunk - 34 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 (black morph) 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 4. Red Squirrel - 9 5. Common Muskrat - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 4 (doe) II. BIRDS: 89 SPECIES, 1,213 TOTAL BIRDS. (Third highest species in May since 2010 (104 in 2014 and 90 in 2011); Highest total birds in May (previous was 1,202 in 2010) (NOTE: M = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 85 (6 goslings,2 nests) 2. Wood Duck - 6 (4m,1f,1*) 3. Mallard - 18 (14m,4f) 4. Rock Pigeon - 6 5. Mourning Dove - 16 6. Chimney Swift - 34 7. Virginia Rail - 1 8. Killdeer - 3 9. Spotted Sandpiper - 5 10. Double-crested Cormorant - 2 11. Great Blue Heron - 37 12. Green Heron - 2 13. Turkey Vulture - 10 14. Osprey - 1 (Tied Census High from 6 other occasions) 15. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 16. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1m,2*) 17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 (2?,6*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 16 (8m,1f,1?,6*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 7 (3m,1f,2?,1*) 21. Northern Flicker - 6 (3m,1f,2*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (2?,3*) 23. Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1m,1f) 24. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 25. Least Flycatcher - 2 (Tied Census High from 05/2014) 26. Eastern Phoebe - 5 27. Great Crested Flycatcher - 7 28. Eastern Kingbird - 5 29. Yellow-throated Vireo - 9 30. Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (First May Record on Census - Tied Census High from 10/2016) 31. Warbling Vireo - 19 32. Red-eyed Vireo - 7 33. Blue Jay - 16 34. American Crow - 11 35. Tree Swallow - 9 36. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 23 37. Bank Swallow - 9 38. Barn Swallow - 17 39. Black-capped Chickadee - 26 40. Tufted Titmouse - 17 41. White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 (3m,1f,3?) 42. House Wren - 8 43. Carolina Wren - 6 44. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 21 (2m,4f,7?,8* - 1 nest in a black walnut tree) 45. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (*) 46. Veery - 2 47. Wood Thrush - 5 (Tied Census High from 06/2016) 48. American Robin - 60 49. Gray Catbird - 28 50. Brown Thrasher - 1 (First May Record on Census) 51. European Starling - 35 52. House Sparrow - 14 53. House Finch - 6 (4m,2f) 54. American Goldfinch - 29 (12m,4f,10?,3*) 55. Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 (Tied Census High from 6 other occasions) 56. Northern Waterthrush - 3 57. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 58. Tennessee Warbler - 1 (f) 59. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 (f - First May Record on Census) 60. Nashville Warbler - 1 (m) 61. Common Yellowthroat - 44 (41m,3* - New Census High - previous was 41 from 05/2014) 62. Hooded Warbler - 6 (m) 63. American Redstart - 11 (m) 64. Cerulean Warbler - 1 (m) 65. Northern Parula - 1 (m) 66. Magnolia Warbler - 4 (m) 67. Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m) 68. Yellow Warbler - 43 (36m,3f,3?,1*) 69. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 (m) 70. Palm Warbler - 1 71. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 (2m,3f) 72. Yellow-throated Warbler - 6 (m) 73. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (m) 74. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1*) 75. Chipping Sparrow - 3 76. Field Sparrow - 3 77. Song Sparrow - 65 78. Swamp Sparrow - 16 79. White-throated Sparrow - 5 80. White-crowned Sparrow - 12 (New Census High - previous was 6 from 05/2013) 81. Scarlet Tanager - 3 (m) 82. Northern Cardinal - 52 (39m,9f,4*) 83. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 11 (10m,1*) 84. Indigo Bunting - 8 (7m,1f) 85. Red-winged Blackbird - 84 (61m,21f,2? - 1 nest in cattails) 86. Common Grackle - 34 87. Brown-headed Cowbird - 26 (20m,6f) 88. Orchard Oriole - 10 (7m,1 immature m,2f - New Census High - previous was 8 from 06/2016) 89. Baltimore Oriole - 36 (m - 1 nest in a silver maple - New Census High - previous was 33 from 05/2014) Unidentified Passerines - 12 Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 Unidentified Warblers (fly-overs) - 6 III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 1 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 18 3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. American Toad - heard calling 2. Bullfrog - 2 3. Green Frog - 7 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 2 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]