SEPTEMBER 01, 2017 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS. HIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. TIME: 6:40am - 4:40pm TEMP.: 51F ~ 70F COND.: Cool and cloudy; winds light and variable. TRAIL COND.: Ideal. RIVER COND.: Low with many rock and sandbars exposed. FT.MI.: 13.63 OBS.: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 9 SPECIES. 1. Virginia Opossum - 1 (First September Record on Census) 2. Eastern Cottontail - 1 3. Eastern Chipmunk - 15 4. Woodchuck - 1 5. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 6. Red Squirrel - 9 7. American Beaver - 1 8. Common Muskrat - 1 9. White-tailed Deer - 2 (doe) II. BIRDS: 60 SPECIES, 852 TOTAL BIRDS. (NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 35 2. Wood Duck - 20 (9m,11f) 3. Gadwall - 1 (m) (at Lock 29 Swamp in Peninsula; New Species on Census - now at 181 Species since January 2010) 4. Mallard - 16 (5m,9f,2?) 5. Rock Pigeon - 1 6. Mourning Dove - 10 7. Chimney Swift - 64 8. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5 (4f,1?) (New Census High - previous was 4 on 09/2011 & 07/2016) 9. Killdeer - 12 10. Spotted Sandpiper - 3 11. Solitary Sandpiper - 3 12. Great Blue Heron - 3 13. Green Heron - 7 (3 juvenile) 14. Turkey Vulture - 10 15. Osprey - 4 (First September Record on Census; New Census High - previous was 1 on eight other occasions) 16. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 17. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m) 18. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 (1 adult,2 juvenile) 19. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,1 juvenile f,3*) 20. Downy Woodpecker - 10 (2m,1f,2?,5*) 21. Hairy Woodpecker - 4 (1f,3*) 22. Northern Flicker - 2 (?) 23. American Kestrel - 2 (m) (1 at Dover Lake Waterpark & 1 at the Akron Water Pollution Control Station) 24. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13 (1 adult feeding 2 side-by-side juveniles) 25. Eastern Phoebe - 7 (1 juvenile) 26. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 27. Warbling Vireo - 2 28. Red-eyed Vireo - 4 29. Blue Jay - 23 30. American Crow - 19 31. Tree Swallow - 5 32. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4 33. Barn Swallow - 12 34. Black-capped Chickadee - 25 35. Tufted Titmouse - 13 (2 juvenile) 36. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 (2m,1f,3*) 37. House Wren - 3 38. Carolina Wren - 12 39. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 (?) 40. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (f) 41. American Robin - 101 (4 juvenile) 42. Gray Catbird - 28 43. European Starling - 46 44. Cedar Waxwing - 74 45. House Sparrow - 10 46. House Finch - 7 (1m,2f,1?,3*) 47. American Goldfinch - 46 (18m,11f,2?,12*,3 juvenile being fed by female) 48. Tennessee Warbler - 2 (?) 49. Common Yellowthroat - 5 (2m,3*) 50. Hooded Warbler - 1 (m) 51. Magnolia Warbler - 3 (1m,2f) 52. Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (f) 53. Eastern Towhee - 1 (*) 54. Song Sparrow - 16 55. Swamp Sparrow - 2 56. Scarlet Tanager - 1 (m) 57. Northern Cardinal - 43 (13m,1 juvenile m,9f,1 juvenile f,13*,6 juvenile *) 58. Indigo Bunting - 8 (2m,2f,3*,1 juvenile) 59. Red-winged Blackbird - 42 (9m,3f,30?) 60. Common Grackle - 23 Unidentified Passerines - 16 III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 2 2. Red-eared Turtle - 3 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 24 4. Northern Water Snake - 1 IV. FISHES: 5 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 1 2. Creek Chub - 63 3. Common White Sucker - 4 4. Largemouth Bass - 2 5. Bluegill - 2 V. BUTTERFLIES: 3 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 12 2. Monarch - 1 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]