g cloudy at
7:25am with a few overcast moments, light sprinkles from 12:55pm to 1:10pm,
but nothing amounting to rain; cloudy the rest of the hike and overcast to
the north.  *TRAIL COND.*: Good. The footbridge in Boston is now complete.
The three other footbridges between just south of Deep Lock (Lock 28) and
Furnace Run are still out. Took the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad tracks
from Deep Lock south to the where the tracks cross Riverview Rd., then
Riverview Rd. south to the construction access road just south of the
crossover, rejoining the Towpath Trail, then south to Furnace Run and
taking the Valley Trail around the Furnace Run footbridge construction
site, out to Riverview Rd. and through Szalay's Farm Market.  *RIVER COND.*:
Normal and a little muddy.
*FT.MI.*: 13.63  *OBS.*: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.

*I. MAMMALS*: 6 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Cottontail - 1
   2. Eastern Chipmunk - 83
   3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 1 (black morph)
   4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 4
   5. Red Squirrel - 23
   6. White-tailed Deer - 4 (1 buck,3 doe)


*II. BIRDS*: 74 SPECIES, 1,112 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 - 18 (5f,13 ducklings)
   3. Mallard - 3 (m)
   4. Mourning Dove - 23
   5. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3
   6. Chimney Swift - 17
   7. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (?)
   8. Killdeer - 3
   9. Spotted Sandpiper - 3
   10. Double-crested Cormorant - 4  (heading SE over Stanford Swamp -
   First June Record on Census)
   11. Great Blue Heron - 23
   12. Green Heron - 8
   13. Turkey Vulture - 11
   14. Red-tailed Hawk - 3
   15. Belted Kingfisher - 1 (m)
   16. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3
   17. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (1m,2f,3?,10*)
   18. Downy Woodpecker - 8 (1f,2?,5* - 1 nest in a sycamore snag)
   19. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (3f,1?,1 juvenile)
   20. Northern Flicker - 5 (1f,4?)
   21. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (2?,1*)
   22. Peregrine Falcon - 3 (1m,1f,1 downy chick - "Trailblazer" &
   "Gatewood" have at least one chick on the ledge nest on the Ohio Turnpike
   bridge)
   23. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 15
   24. Acadian Flycatcher - 7
   25. Willow Flycatcher - 5
   26. Eastern Phoebe - 3
   27. Great Crested Flycatcher - 10
   28. Eastern Kingbird - 3
   29. White-eyed Vireo - 4  (Tied Census High from 05/2011)
   30. Yellow-throated Vireo - 9
   31. Warbling Vireo - 30
   32. Red-eyed Vireo - 22
   33. Blue Jay - 15
   34. American Crow - 6
   35. Tree Swallow - 10  (2 nests in dead snags)
   36. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 14
   37. Bank Swallow - 2
   38. Barn Swallow - 9  (1 nest under the Boston Store Visitor Center
   front porch)
   39. Black-capped Chickadee - 12
   40. Tufted Titmouse - 11
   41. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 (1m,1?,4*)
   42. House Wren - 8
   43. Carolina Wren - 10
   44. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 7 (1?,6*)
   45. Eastern Bluebird - 4 (1m,3*)
   46. Veery - 5
   47. Wood Thrush - 3
   48. American Robin - 51 (2 juveniles - 1 nest in a black locust tree)
   49. Gray Catbird - 24
   50. European Starling - 45
   51. Cedar Waxwing - 36
   52. House Sparrow - 41
   53. House Finch - 6 (4m,2f)
   54. American Goldfinch - 28 (7m,5f,6?,10*)
   55. Louisiana Waterthrush - 4  (Tied Census High from 07/2017)
   56. Common Yellowthroat - 36 (m)
   57. Hooded Warbler - 13 (m - New Census High - previous was 12 from
   06/2011 & 05/2015)
   58. American Redstart - 4 (3m,1 immature m)
   59. Yellow Warbler - 38 (35m,1f,2*)
   60. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (m)
   61. Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (m)
   62. Eastern Towhee - 3 (m)
   63. Chipping Sparrow - 6
   64. Song Sparrow - 76
   65. Swamp Sparrow - 12
   66. Scarlet Tanager - 9 (8m,1f)
   67. Northern Cardinal - 49 (40m,5f,4* - 1 nest in a honeysuckle bush)
   68. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 9 (8m,1f - 1 nest in a sugar maple tree)
   69. Indigo Bunting - 18 (16m,1f,1*)
   70. Red-winged Blackbird - 74 (54m,20f)
   71. Common Grackle - 35
   72. Brown-headed Cowbird - 16 (10m,5f,1 juvenile being fed by a Song
   Sparrow)
   73. Orchard Oriole - 6 (5m,1 immature m)
   74. Baltimore Oriole - 20 (m - 1 nest in a sycamore tree)

Unidentified passerines - 21

*III. REPTILES*: 3 SPECIES.

   1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3
   2. Midland Painted Turtle - 25
   3. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 2


*IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 3 SPECIES.

   1. Gray Treefrog - 1 (calling)
   2. Bullfrog - 3
   3. Green Frog - 12


*V. FISHES*: 2 SPECIES.

   1. Common Carp - 1
   2. Creek Chub - 14


*VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 9 SPECIES.

   1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 8
   2. Cabbage Butterfly - 12
   3. Clouded Sulphur - 1
   4. Red-spotted Purple - 1
   5. Little Wood Satyr - 24
   6. Monarch - 1
   7. Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
   8. Least Skipper - 1
   9. Hobomok Skipper - 5


Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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