APRIL 06, 2024 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.
ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley with a stop at the
Peninsula Coffee House.
TIME: 7:00am - 4:50pm  TIME AFIELD: 9:50  TEMP.: 35F ~ 52F ~ 51F
COND.: Cool and cloudy early; clouds moving out at 10:15am and turning
mostly sunny; partly cloudy
after 12:30pm until end of census; breezy with variable winds all day.
TRAIL COND.: Sloppy; saturated and muddy in low spots from recent rains.
RIVER COND.: High, swift, and muddy from recent rains - no rockbars or
sandbars showing.
FT. MI.: 14.0  OBS.: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES, 33 TOTAL.

   1. Eastern Chipmunk - 4
   2. Woodchuck - 1
   3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 6 (2 black morph)
   4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
   5. Red Squirrel - 14
   6. Common Muskrat - 3


II. BIRDS: 61 SPECIES, 761 TOTAL.
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not sexed)

   1. Canada Goose - 52 (6 nests)
   2. Trumpeter Swan - 2  (at Ira Beaver Marsh - Third April Record on
   Census)
   3. Wood Duck - 12 (8m,4f)  (one male Wood Duck was cozied up with a
   female Mallard)
   4. American Black Duck - 2 (1m,1f)
   5. Mallard - 16 (9m,6f,1*)
   6. Common Merganser - 8 (3m,5f)
   7. Pied-billed Grebe - 1  (calling at Ira Beaver Marsh)
   8. Rock Pigeon - 7
   9. Mourning Dove - 21
   10. Killdeer - 3
   11. Wilson's Snipe - 1  (performing its courtship flight over Stanford
   Swamp near Lock 33 - Second Record on Census & First April Record on Census)
   12. Ring-billed Gull - 2
   13. Common Loon - 2  (both solo fly-overs of adult birds heading north
   over Stanford Swamp - Fifth Record on Census & Second April Record on
   Census)
   14. Double-crested Cormorant - 9  (Third April Record on Census)
   15. Great Blue Heron - 16
   16. Turkey Vulture - 16
   17. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature m)
   18. Bald Eagle - 5 (3 adult,2 immature)
   19. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1  (carrying an unidentified snake)
   20. Red-tailed Hawk - 13 (1 immature)
   21. Barred Owl - 1  (along Akron sewer line near Akron Compost Facility
   - Third Record on Census & First April Record on Census)
   22. Belted Kingfisher - 6 (2m,3f,1?)
   23. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (3m,3f,1?,9*)
   24. Downy Woodpecker - 11 (3m,3f,1?,3*)
   25. Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (1m,2f,3*)
   26. Northern Flicker - 13 (2m,1f,1?,9*)
   27. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*)
   28. Merlin - 1 (f)  (First April Record on Census)
   29. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m)
   30. Eastern Phoebe - 7
   31. Blue Jay - 13
   32. American Crow - 25
   33. Fish Crow - 2  (pair at Szalay's corn field - Fourth Record on
   Census & Second April Record on Census)
   34. Black-capped Chickadee - 7
   35. Tufted Titmouse - 18
   36. Tree Swallow - 37
   37. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
   38. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7 (2m,4f,1*)
   39. White-breasted Nuthatch - 13 (3m,4f,2?,4*)
   40. Brown Creeper - 3
   41. Carolina Wren - 22
   42. Winter Wren - 1
   43. European Starling - 52
   44. Eastern Bluebird - 4 (2m,2f)
   45. American Robin - 24
   46. House Sparrow - 9
   47. House Finch - 6 (3m,2f,1?)
   48. American Goldfinch - 14 (4m,3f,7?)
   49. Field Sparrow - 1
   50. Fox Sparrow - 2
   51. Dark-eyed Junco - 7 (6m,1f)
   52. White-throated Sparrow - 17
   53. Song Sparrow - 40
   54. Swamp Sparrow - 8
   55. Eastern Towhee - 5 (2m,3?)
   56. Red-winged Blackbird - 39 (37m,2f)
   57. Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 (m)
   58. Rusty Blackbird - 7 (5m,2f)
   59. Common Grackle - 45
   60. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1  (first footbridge south of Peninsula -
   Third April Record on Census - all at this location)
   61. Northern Cardinal - 45 (31m,10f,4*)

??. Unidentified Blackbird Species - 23
??. Unidentified Passerines - 3

III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES, 1 UNKNOWN, 200 TOTAL.

   1. Common Snapping Turtle - 3
   2. Red-eared Turtle - 6
   3. Midland Painted Turtle - 188
   4. Northern Water Snake - 1  (Third April Record on Census)
   5. Eastern Garter Snake - 1  (Fourth April Record on Census)

?. Unidentified Snake - 1  (in the talons of a Red-shouldered Hawk)

IV. AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES, 9 TOTAL.

   1. Northern Spring Peeper - 6 (heard)
   2. Western Chorus Frog - 1 (heard)
   3. Bullfrog - 1  (Fourth April Record on Census)
   4. Green Frog - 1  (Fifth April Record on Census)


V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES, 34 TOTAL.

   1. Central Mudminnow - 34  (all in Lock 28 - a.k.a. "Deep Lock" - Fifth
   April Record on Census)


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES, 1 TOTAL.

   1. Eastern Comma - 1  (Third April Record on Census)


Compiler:  Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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