JUNE 02, 2017 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS. ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead to Merriman Valley, including Trail Mix in Peninsula and Szalay's Farm Market. TIME: 6:00am - 3:00pm TEMP.: 49 ~ 77 COND.: Cool and foggy early, giving way to sunny, blue skies, and pleasant; light south winds. TRAIL COND.: Good. RIVER COND.: High, swift, and muddy - little or no exposed rock and sandbars. FT.MI.: 13.63 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 1 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 38 3. Woodchuck - 1 4. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 5. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 6. Red Squirrel - 15 7. White-tailed Deer - 10 (2 bucks,7 does,1 heard snorting) II. BIRDS: 74 SPECIES, 1,014 INDIVIDUALS. (NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen) 1. Canada Goose - 76 (4 goslings) 2. Wood Duck - 16 (2m,4f,10 ducklings) 3. Mallard - 2 (1m,1f) 4. Common Merganser - 2 (1f,1 duckling - seen from Towpath Trail bridge at Furnace Run; duckling was only days old - First June Record on Census) 5. Wild Turkey - 8 (1 hen,7 poults - seen in Szalay's corn field north of Bolanz Rd.; poults not much bigger than a baseball - First June Record on Census) 6. Rock Pigeon - 2 7. Mourning Dove - 14 8. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4 9. Chimney Swift - 13 10. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (m) 11. Great Blue Heron - 24 12. Green Heron - 2 13. Turkey Vulture - 13 14. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 15. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 16. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*) 17. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 18. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 11 (1m,2f,1?,7*) 19. Downy Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,4*) 20. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (f) 21. Northern Flicker - 8 (1m,1f,1?,5*) 22. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (1f,2*) 23. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - "Trailblazer") 24. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 10 25. Acadian Flycatcher - 9 26. Willow Flycatcher - 5 27. Eastern Phoebe - 3 28. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6 29. Eastern Kingbird - 6 30. Yellow-throated Vireo - 8 31. Warbling Vireo - 22 (1 nest in a sycamore tree) 32. Red-eyed Vireo - 26 33. Blue Jay - 11 34. American Crow - 7 35. Tree Swallow - 9 36. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 10 37. Bank Swallow - 2 38. Barn Swallow - 3 39. Black-capped Chickadee - 12 40. Tufted Titmouse - 24 41. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (4m,6*) 42. House Wren - 2 43. Carolina Wren - 6 44. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 9 (1m,4?,4*) 45. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (*) 46. Veery - 6 (Tied Census High from 06/2010) 47. Wood Thrush - 1 48. American Robin - 43 (2 juveniles,2 nests - both in buckeye trees) 49. Gray Catbird - 25 50. European Starling - 38 51. Cedar Waxwing - 23 (2 nests under construction in red oak and sycamore) 52. House Sparrow - 14 53. House Finch - 9 (6m,1f,2*) 54. American Goldfinch - 17 (9m,5f,3*) 55. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 (at Lock 28 or "Deep Lock") 56. Common Yellowthroat - 31 (29m,2*) 57. Hooded Warbler - 7 (6m,1*) 58. American Redstart - 10 (9m,1 immature m) 59. Northern Parula - 2 (m) 60. Yellow Warbler - 37 (31m,2f,2?,2*) 61. Yellow-throated Warbler - 5 (m) 62. Eastern Towhee - 2 (m) 63. Chipping Sparrow - 4 64. Song Sparrow - 61 65. Swamp Sparrow - 21 (New Census High - previous was 18 on 07/2015 & 07/2016) 66. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (1m,1f - male fed the female a caterpillar) 67. Northern Cardinal - 37 (25m,3f,4*,2 juveniles,3 juveniles*) 68. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 12 (m) 69. Indigo Bunting - 19 (18m,1f) 70. Red-winged Blackbird - 67 (47m,15f,5 juveniles) 71. Common Grackle - 35 72. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 (8m,3f,1 juvenile being fed by a male Northern Cardinal) 73. Orchard Oriole - 7 (5m,2 immature m) 74. Baltimore Oriole - 23 (22m,1f - 1 nest under construction in a sycamore tree) ??. Unidentified Hawks - 2 (together - very distant) ??. Unidentified Passerines - 22 III. REPTILES: 6 SPECIES, 1 NEW TO CENSUS. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 15 2. Stinkpot - 1 (New Reptile Species on Census - now at 8 Species since January 2010) 3. Red-eared Turtle - 3 4. Midland Painted Turtle - 50 5. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 7 6. Northern Water Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 5 (1 seen,4 heard) 2. Green Frog - 42 (4 seen,38 heard) V. FISHES: 6 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 1 2. Creek Chub - 9 3. Common Shiner - 10 (First June Record on Census) 4. Largemouth Bass - 2 (First June Record on Census) 5. Bluegill - 15 6. Pumpkinseed - 1 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 5 (females) 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 8 3. Spring Azure - 3 4. Pearl Crescent - 1 5. Little Wood Satyr - 3 6. Monarch - 1 7. Zabulon Skipper - 5 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]