*MAY 05, 2018 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY TOWPATH TRAIL MONTHLY CENSUS.* *ROUTE*: Towpath Trail from Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley. *TIME*: 6:20am - 6:10pm *TEMP.*: 46 ~ 76 ~ 74 *COND.*: Cool early, warming and turning sunny and pleasant; mostly cloudy from 11:30am on. *TRAIL COND.*: Perfect; the bridge in Boston is still out, but they're allowing access around it via the old parking lot east of Boston Store; the first bridge south of Deep Lock has metal plates over the creek, allowing access to continue down the trail; the second bridge south of Deep Lock is still out, had to leave trail where the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad crosses Riverview Rd. and re-join the trail after crossing that creek via the roadway; the bridge over Furnace Run is still out, so we detoured onto the Valley Trail to Riverview Rd. and through Szalay's Farm Market to Bolanz Rd. *RIVER COND.*: Just about normal. *FT.MI.*: 13.63 *OBS.*: John Henry, Christopher Medvedeff (Red Lock Trailhead to Boston Trailhead; Hunt Farm Trailhead to Ira Trailhead), Mark Medvedeff (Red Lock Trailhead to Boston Trailhead), Douglas W. Vogus. *I. MAMMALS*: 7 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 3 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 36 3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 4 4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 5. Red Squirrel - 17 6. Common Muskrat - 1 7. White-tailed Deer - 6 (5 doe,1 unknown) *II. BIRDS*: 97 SPECIES, (1 SPECIES NEW TO CENSUS), 1,040 TOTAL BIRDS. (NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) 1. Canada Goose - 49 (8 goslings, 2 nests - one with 4 eggs) 2. Wood Duck - 3 (2m,1f) 3. Mallard - 9 (7m,2f) 4. Rock Pigeon - 1 5. Mourning Dove - 22 6. Chimney Swift - 14 7. Virginia Rail - 1 8. KIlldeer - 6 9. Spotted Sandpiper - 5 10. Solitary Sandpiper - 3 11. Ring-billed Gull - 1 12. Great Blue Heron - 29 13. Green Heron - 4 14. Turkey Vulture - 13 15. Osprey - 1 (south of Peninsula over the Cuyahoga River and headed south) 16. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f) 17. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 18. Broad-winged Hawk - 5 (one male called for female and gave her a large bullfrog) (New Census High - previous was 2 on 06/2012, 08/2013, 09/2015 & 08/2016) 19. Red-tailed Hawk - 8 (Yellow Creek nest is active) 20. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1?,1*) 21. Red-headed Woodpecker - 5 (4 at Stanford Swamp & 1 along Cuyahoga River at the Akron Compost Facility) (New Census High - previous was 4 on 09/2015) 22. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (2m,1f,2?,9*) 23. Downy Woodpecker - 10 (2m,3f,1?,4*) 24. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1m,1f,1*) 25. Northern Flicker - 6 (1m,2f,3*) 26. Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (1?,1*) 27. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m - "Trailblazer" at the Ohio Turnpike bridge) 28. Acadian Flycatcher - 2 29. Eastern Phoebe - 4 30. Great Crested Flycatcher - 5 31. Eastern Kingbird - 4 32. White-eyed Vireo - 1 33. Yellow-throated Vireo - 3 34. Blue-headed Vireo - 1 35. Warbling Vireo - 19 36. Red-eyed Vireo - 4 37. Blue Jay - 21 38. American Crow - 13 39. Tree Swallow - 11 (1 nest) 40. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 23 (1 nest) 41. Barn Swallow - 5 42. Black-capped Chickadee - 16 43. Tufted Titmouse - 16 44. White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (5m,1f,3?,1*) 45. House Wren - 5 46. Carolina Wren - 18 (Tied Census High from 11/2017) 47. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 9 (3m,2f,1?,3*) 48. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 9 (4f,5?) (New Census High - previous was 3 on 10/2010, 04/2012 & 11/2012) 49. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (2m,1f) 50. Veery - 1 51. Swainson's Thrush - 5 52. Wood Thrush - 3 53. American Robin - 36 (3 nests) 54. Gray Catbird - 32 55. European Starling - 16 56. Cedar Waxwing - 1 57. House Sparrow - 19 58. House Finch - 4 (1m,3*) 59. American Goldfinch - 24 (14m,7f,3*) 60. Ovenbird - 3 (New Census High - previous was 2 on 05/2011 & 05/2014) 61. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 62. Northern Waterthrush - 9 (New Census High - previous was 5 on 05/2012) 63. Blue-winged Warbler - 3 (m) 64. Black-and-white Warbler - 5 (m) (New Census High - previous was 4 on 05/2011) 65. Tennessee Warbler - 1 (f) 66. Nashville Warbler - 3 (m) 67. Common Yellowthroat - 16 (m) 68. Hooded Warbler - 5 (m) 69. American Redstart - 2 (m) 70. Northern Parula - 2 (m) 71. Magnolia Warbler - 1 (m) 72. Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 (f) 73. Blackburnian Warbler - 1 (m) 74. Yellow Warbler - 48 (39m,7f,2?) 75. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (m) 76. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (m) 77. Palm Warbler - 8 (New Census High - previous was 6 on 05/2011) 78. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 38 (28m,10f) 79. Yellow-throated Warbler - 8 (7m,1f) 80. Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 (4m,1f) 81. Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 (along northern edge of the Boston Horse Pasture) (New Species on Census - now at 183 Species since 01/01/2010) 82. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m,1*) 83. Chipping Sparrow - 2 84. Field Sparrow - 4 85. Song Sparrow - 46 (1 nest under construction) 86. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 87. Swamp Sparrow - 16 88. White-throated Sparrow - 20 89. White-crowned Sparrow - 6 90. Northern Cardinal - 40 (34m,5f,1*) 91. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 7 (3m,1f,3*) 92. Indigo Bunting - 2 (m) 93. Red-winged Blackbird - 63 (47m,16f) 94. Common Grackle - 41 95. Brown-headed Cowbird - 23 (15m,8f) 96. Orchard Oriole - 3 (2m,1f) 97. Baltimore Oriole - 19 (18m,1f) Unidentified Warblers - 2 Unidentified Passerines - 14 *III. REPTILES*: 8 SPECIES, (1 SPECIES NEW TO CENSUS), 1 DEAD. 1. Common Snapping Turtle - 9 2. Stinkpot - 1 (in canal just south of Ohio Turnpike bridge) (Tied Census High from 06/2017) 3. Red-eared Turtle - 15 (New Census High - previous was 8 on 05/2016) 4. Midland Painted Turtle - 228 5. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 11 6. Northern Water Snake - 3 (New Census High - previous was 2 on 05/2013) 7. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 8. Black Rat Snake - 1 (about 3&1/2-feet long between the Peninsula Tunnel & Lock 30) (New Reptile on Census - now at 9 Species since 01/01/2010) X. Northern Brown Snake - 1 (dead on Towpath Trail) *IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 6 SPECIES, (1 SPECIES NEW TO CENSUS). 1. Red-spotted Newt / Red Eft - 1 (in Lock 30 north of Peninsula - appeared ready to go terrestrial) (New Amphibian on Census - now at 9 Species since 01/01/2010) 2. American Toad - (1 along trail plus many calling) 3. Northern Spring Peeper - 6 (calling) 4. Gray Treefrog - 1 (calling) 5. Bullfrog - 2 6. Green Frog - 3 *V. FISHES*: 6 SPECIES. 1. Central Mudminnow - 2 (last month's mystery fish is this species, giving us 18 Species since 01/01/2010. These are present in Lock 28, a.k.a. "Deep Lock") 2. Golden Shiner - 2 3. Creek Chub - 3 4. Largemouth Bass - 1 5. Bluegill - 2 6. Pumpkinseed - 2 *VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 2 SPECIES. 1. Cabbage Butterfly - 11 2. Question Mark - 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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