*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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