*AUGUST 03, 2018 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.*
*HIKE*: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley, with stops at Trail
Mix in Peninsula & Szalay's Farm Market. *TIME*: 5:55am - 4:30pm *TEMP.*:
64 ~ 86 ~ 85
COND.: Cool, cloudy, and foggy early; warming up to a clouds/sun mix,
turning humid and sunny with light southerly breezes all day.
*TRAIL COND.*: Excellent; footbridge construction still ongoing - bridge
south of Deep Lock still out, able to cross creek via steel plates. Bridge
between that bridge and Furnace Run is in and crossable. Bridge over
Furnace Run is in but detour continues via the Valley Trail out to
Riverview Rd. and around Szalay's Farm Market.
*RIVER COND.*: Low, mostly clear, with many rock and sandbars exposed.
*FT.MI.*: 13.63 *OBS.*: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus.
*I. MAMMALS*: 7 SPECIES.
1. Little Brown Myotis - 6 (at the Highland Rd. bridge over Cuyahoga
River at Red Lock - New Census High - previous was 5 on 08/2015)
2. Eastern Chipmunk - 20
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
4. Red Squirrel - 22
5. American Beaver - 1 (in Cuyahoga River at Stanford Swamp feasting on
Japanese knotweed - at least someone likes it!)
6. Mink - 1 (First August Record on Census)
7. White-tailed Deer - 2 (unknown)
*II. BIRDS*: 68 SPECIES (New High for August - previous was 66 in 2017),
662 TOTAL BIRDS.
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 15
2. Wood Duck - 11 (2m,4 juvenile m,2f,3?)
3. Mallard - 5 (2f,3 juvenile)
4. Rock Pigeon - 1
5. Mourning Dove - 10
6. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
7. Chimney Swift - 8
8. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (f)
9. Killdeer - 2
10. American Woodcock - 1 (fly-over at Red Lock Trailhead parking lot)
11. Spotted Sandpiper - 4 (2 juvenile)
12. Solitary Sandpiper - 2
13. Herring Gull - 1 (First August Record on Census)
14. Great Blue Heron - 6
15. Green Heron - 3
16. Turkey Vulture - 5
17. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 (north of Deep Lock)
18. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 juvenile)
19. Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 (2 adult,1*)
20. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (2m,1f,5*,2 juvenile)
21. Downy Woodpecker - 10 (3m,1f,2?,4*)
22. Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (*)
23. Northern Flicker - 4 (*)
24. Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (*)
25. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (juvenile m at the Ohio Turnpike bridge -
still screaming to be fed)
26. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 7
27. Acadian Flycatcher - 3
28. Willow Flycatcher - 5 (2 juveniles following one parent bird)
29. Eastern Phoebe - 7 (all in one family group - 1 juvenile following
one parent & 4 juveniles following the other parent)
30. Eastern Kingbird - 5
31. White-eyed Vireo - 2
32. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
33. Warbling Vireo - 2
34. Red-eyed Vireo - 10 (1 juvenile following one parent)
35. Blue Jay - 19
36. American Crow - 9
37. Purple Martin - 5 (perched up in a sycamore snag near the Conrad
Botzum Farm - New Census High - previous was 3 on 09/2015)
38. Tree Swallow - 3
39. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3
40. Barn Swallow - 4
41. Black-capped Chickadee - 15
42. Tufted Titmouse - 12 (2 juveniles being fed by one parent)
43. White-breasted Nuthatch - 11 (1m,1f,1?,8*)
44. House Wren - 2
45. Carolina Wren - 13
46. Eastern Bluebird - 6 (1?,1*,4 juveniles)
47. American Robin - 50 (3 juveniles)
48. Gray Catbird - 11
49. Brown Thrasher - 1 (First August Record on Census)
50. European Starling - 54
51. Cedar Waxwing - 8 (1 juvenile)
52. House Sparrow - 18
53. House Finch - 5 (1m,2f,2*)
54. American Goldfinch - 32 (15m,4f,13*)
55. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 (feeding along the shale ledges skirting
the Cuyahoga River north of the Peninsula footbridge)
56. Common Yellowthroat - 11 (8m,1f,2?)
57. Hooded Warbler - 7 (4m,3*)
58. Yellow Warbler - 2 (1m,1f)
59. Eastern Towhee - 3 (2m, 1 juvenile m following one parent bird)
60. Song Sparrow - 40 (2 juveniles)
61. Swamp Sparrow - 10
62. Scarlet Tanager - 3 (1m,2 juveniles - both juveniles following male
parent bird)
63. Northern Cardinal - 36 (22m,9f,5*)
64. Indigo Bunting - 10 (9m,1*)
65. Red-winged Blackbird - 50 (12m,15f,20?,2*,1 juvenile)
66. Common Grackle - 44
67. Orchard Oriole - 1 (f)
68. Baltimore Oriole - 2 (1m,1f)
Unidentified Raptor - 1
Unidentified Passerines - 8
*III. REPTILES*: 5 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 7
2. Stinkpot - 1 (Tied Census High from 06/2017 & 05/2018)
3. Red-eared Turtle - 3
4. Midland Painted Turtle - 99
5. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 13
*IV. AMPHIBIANS*: 2 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog - 17 (6 tadpoles)
2. Green Frog - 14 (10 heard only)
Unidentified tadpoles - about 200 in a pool drying up in the old canal bed.
*V. FISHES*: 6 SPECIES.
1. Creek Chub - many
2. Common Shiner - many
3. Northern Hog Sucker - 3
4. Largemouth Bass - 5
5. Bluegill - 8
6. Pumpkinseed - 4
*VI. BUTTERFLIES*: 16 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 (First August Record on Census - Tied
Census High from 06/2012 & 05/2013)
2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 25 (1 dark morph)
3. Cabbage Butterfly - 26
4. Clouded Sulphur - 3
5. Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1 (female - First August Record on Census)
6. Summer Azure - 2
7. Pearl Crescent - 1
8. Question Mark - 2
9. Mourning Cloak - 1 (First August Record on Census - Tied Census High
from 7 other occasions)
10. Red-spotted Purple - 3
11. Viceroy - 2
12. Common Wood Nymph - 1 (New Butterfly Species on Census - Now at 31
Species since 01/2010)
13. Monarch - 7
14. Silver-spotted Skipper - 11 (New Census High - previous was 6 on
08/2016)
15. Least Skipper - 3 (New Census High - previous was 2 on 06/2012)
16. Zabulon Skipper - 4
*VII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES*: 14 SPECIES, 1 DEAD.
1. Black-tipped Darner - 1
2. Common Green Darner - 1
3. Eastern Pondhawk - 1
4. Slaty Skimmer - 2
5. Widow Skimmer - 2
6. Blue Dasher - 25+
7. Wandering Glider - 1
8. Eastern Amberwing - 2
9. Ruby Meadowhawk - 4
10. Black Saddlebags - 3
11. Ebony Jewelwing - 4 (2m,2f)
12. Blue-fronted Dancer - 20+
13. Blue-tipped Dancer - 5
14. Azure Bluet - 2
15. Swift River Cruiser - 1 (dead on the trail being scavenged by
yellowjackets)
*MOTHS of NOTE*: 2 SPECIES.
1. Darling Underwing - 1
2. Hummingbird Clearwing Moth - 3 (all females on one patch of bee-balm)
*SPIDER of NOTE*: 1 SPECIES.
1. Dark Fishing Spider - 1 (on the water in Deep Lock)
*WILDFLOWER of NOTE*: 1 SPECIES.
1. Cardinal-flower (currently in full-bloom)
Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.
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