*NOVEMBER 04, 2017 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL
CENSUS.*
*ROUTE*: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Valley. *TIME*:
7:40am - 4:25pm *TEMP.*: 35 ~ 63 *COND.*: Chilly and foggy early, turning
partly sunny, then mostly cloudy, then back to warmer
and partly sunny; light south winds. *TRAIL COND.*: Good. *RIVER COND.*:
Slightly above normal, murky. *FT. MI.*: 14.10 *OBS.*: John Henry and
Douglas W. Vogus.
*I. MAMMALS*: 5 SPECIES, 88 INDIVIDUALS.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 42
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 6 (2 black morph)
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 5
4. Red Squirrel - 27
5. White-tailed Deer - 8 (9pt. buck,7 doe)
*II. BIRDS*: 51 SPECIES, 2,206 INDIVIDUALS (New Census High for Individuals
- previous was 1,933 on 11/2014.)
(7-YEAR AVG.: = 50.14 SPECIES, 1,169.2 INDIVIDUALS. LOW: 46 SPECIES (TWICE)
& HIGH: 55 SPECIES. LOW: 702 INDIVIDUALS & HIGH: 1,933 INDIVIDUALS.)
*NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not sexed.*
1. Canada Goose - 18
2. Wood Duck - 5 (2m,3f) *(Ira Beaver Marsh)*
3. American Black Duck - 16 (9m,7f) *(14 at Ira Beaver Marsh)*
4. Mallard - 19 (12m,7f)
5. Pied-billed Grebe - 3 *(Ira Beaver Marsh)*
6. Rock Pigeon - 6
7. Mourning Dove - 4
8. Herring Gull - 2
9. Double-crested Cormorant - 23 *(1 flock heading south over Boston)*
10. Great Blue Heron - 4
11. Turkey Vulture - 6
12. Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
13. Cooper's Hawk - 3 (1m,2 immature m) *(New Census High - previous
was 2 fourteen different times)*
14. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (1 immature)
15. Belted Kingfisher - 4 (3m,1*)
16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 18 (5m,6f,2?,5*)
17. Downy Woodpecker - 21 (6m,4f,3?,8*)
18. Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (1?,5*)
19. Northern Flicker - 2 (*)
20. Pileated Woodpecker - 6 (2m,1?,3*)
21. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f) *("Gatewood" near the Ohio Turnpike
Bridge)*
22. Eastern Phoebe - 1 *(Ira Beaver Marsh)*
23. Blue Jay - 57 *(New Census High - previous was 55 on 11/2014) *
24. American Crow - 56
25. Black-capped Chickadee - 18
26. Tufted Titmouse - 8
27. White-breasted Nuthatch - 17 (4m,1f,4?,8*)
28. Brown Creeper - 1
29. Winter Wren - 2 *(Tied Census High from 8 different times)*
30. Carolina Wren - 18 *(New Census High - previous was 15 on 10/2013,
04/2012 & 01/2014)*
31. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 (?)
32. Eastern Bluebird - 63 (11m,8f,41?,3*) *(New Census High - previous
was 56 on 11/2015)*
33. American Robin - 16
34. European Starling - 53
35. Cedar Waxwing - 1
36. House Sparrow - 32
37. House Finch - 8 (2m,2f,2?,2*)
38. American Goldfinch - 35
39. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3
40. Eastern Towhee - 6 (m)
41. Field Sparrow - 1
42. Fox Sparrow - 1 *(along trail at Stanford Swamp)*
43. Song Sparrow - 33
44. Swamp Sparrow - 4
45. White-throated Sparrow - 21
46. Northern Cardinal - 38 (13m,9f,16*)
47. Red-winged Blackbird - 143 (23m,35f,85?)
48. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 *(at Stanford Swamp - Tied Census High from
04/2010 & 06/2016)*
49. Rusty Blackbird - 1 (f) *(in old canal bed north of Johnnycake
Lock)*
50. Common Grackle - 1,332 *(biggest flocks were of 200, 220, 300 & 600
estimated birds)*
51. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (f) *(Szalay's corn maze)*
Unidentified Duck - 3 *(far away, flying & backlit)*
Unidentified Blackbird Species - 39
Unidentified Passerines - 14
*III. REPTILES*: 1 SPECIES, 6 INDIVIDUALS, (plus one dead).
1. Midland Painted Turtle - 6
DEAD: Northern Brown Snake - 1 *(trail casualty)*
*IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 1 SPECIES, 3 INDIVIDUALS.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 3 (heard only)
*V. FISHES*: 2 SPECIES, 3 INDIVIDUALS.
1. Common Carp - 1
2. Creek Chub - 2
*VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 1 SPECIES, 1 INDIVIDUAL.
1. Cabbage Butterfly - 1
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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