OCTOBER 01, 2011 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park & Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Towpath Trail Monthly Census.
HIKE: Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:20am-3:35pm TEMP.: 49-50-48 COND.: Overcast with light rain until 10:20am; gray & cloudy; light, misty rain from 12:10pm-3:15pm FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Dan Fish (Red Lock to Lock 29), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Chipmunk - 39
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 2
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6
4. Red Squirrel - 11
5. White-tailed Deer - 10 (doe)
II. BIRDS: 63 SPECIES.
(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 242
2. Wood Duck - 37 (4m,4f,29?)
3. Mallard - 3 (2m,1f)
4. Great Blue Heron - 10
5. Turkey Vulture - 3
6. Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
7. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 immature)
8. Merlin - 1(m)
9. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (f)
10. Ring-billed Gull - 5
11. Herring Gull - 3
12. Rock Pigeon - 35
13. Mourning Dove - 3
14. Chimney Swift - 8
15. Belted Kingfisher - 5 (3m,2*)
16. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14 (3m,2f,2?,7*)
17. Downy Woodpecker - 7 (2f,1?,4*)
18. Hairy Woodpecker - 12 (2m,1f,1?,8*)
19. Northern Flicker - 5 (2?,3*)
20. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (m)
21. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
22. Eastern Phoebe - 4
23. Yellow-throated Vireo - 2
24. Red-eyed Vireo - 1
25. Blue Jay - 46
26. American Crow - 53
27. Tree Swallow - 36
28. Black-capped Chickadee - 41
29. Tufted Titmouse - 21
30. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (m)
31. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (2m,1?,5*)
32. Carolina Wren - 5
33. Eastern Bluebird - 3 (1f,2*)
34. Veery - 1
35. Swainson's Thrush - 2
36. American Robin - 63
37. Gray Catbird - 7
38. European Starling - 23
39. Cedar Waxwing - 139
40. Tennessee Warbler - 2
41. Orange-crowned Warbler - 2
42. Nashville Warbler - 5
43. Magnolia Warbler - 7
44. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6
45. Black-throated Green Warbler - 5
46. Blackburnian Warbler - 1
47. Yellow-throated Warbler - 1
48. Bay-breasted Warbler - 2
49. Blackpoll Warbler - 2
50. Common Yellowthroat - 4
51. Scarlet Tanager - 4 (m)
52. Eastern Towhee - 2 (1m,1*)
53. Song Sparrow - 9
54. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
55. Swamp Sparrow - 5
56. White-throated Sparrow - 2
57. Northern Cardinal - 44 (14m,1 juv. m,12f,12*,5* juv.)
58. Indigo Bunting - 2
59. Red-winged Blackbird - 251
60. Common Grackle - 81
61. House Finch - 1 (m)
62. American Goldfinch - 17 (1 juv.)
63. House Sparrow - 12
III. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Northern Spring Peeper - 3 (*)
2. Green Frog - 3
 
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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