APRIL 02, 2010 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Monthly Towpath Trail Census. HIKE: Towpath Trail from Red Lock south to Merriman Rd. TIME: 7:05am-2:10pm TEMP.: 44-85 COND.: Chilly early giving way to unseasonably warm weather, sunny with blue skies. FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 5 SPECIES. Eastern Chipmunk - 1 Eastern Fox Squirrel - 9 Red Squirrel - 17 Muskrat - 1 White-tailed Deer - 23 II. BIRDS: 49 SPECIES (plus 1 feral/domestic) (NOTE: ?= bird was seen but not sexed; *= bird was heard but not seen) Canada Goose - 48 (4 nests) Feral/domestic "Barnyard Goose" - 1 Wood Duck - 5 (3m,1f,1*) Mallard - 13 (11m,2f) Great Blue Heron - 2 Turkey Vulture - 6 Cooper's Hawk - 1 (f) Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (carrying nesting material) Red-tailed Hawk - 13 (1 immature) American Kestrel - 1 (f) Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m) Killdeer - 7 Ring-billed Gull - 7 Herring Gull - 3 Mourning Dove - 16 Belted Kingfisher - 9 (3m,2f,1?,3*) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 16 (4m,2f,2?,8*) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 11 (1m,3f,7*) Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (f) Northern Flicker - 12 (4m,1f,1?,6*) Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (*) Eastern Phoebe - 9 Blue Jay - 19 American Crow - 11 Tree Swallow - 12 Black-capped Chickadee - 33 (3 nests under way) Tufted Titmouse - 20 White-breasted Nuthatch - 13 (8m,2f,3*) Carolina Wren - 8 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (f) Eastern Bluebird - 5 (3m,2f) American Robin - 76 European Starling - 17 Eastern Towhee - 1 (m) Field Sparrow - 3 Fox Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow - 99 Swamp Sparrow - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 8 Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (f) Northern Cardinal - 55 (41m,9f,5*) Red-winged Blackbird - 60 (54m,6f) Eastern Meadowlark - 1 Rusty Blackbird - 6 (4m,2f) Common Grackle - 35 Brown-headed Cowbird - 27 (22m,5f) House Finch - 8 (1m,3?,4*) American Goldfinch - 27 House Sparrow - 16 III. REPTILES: 6 SPECIES. Common Snapping Turtle - 2 Red-eared Turtle - 1 Midland Painted Turtle - 204 Eastern Spiny Softshell - 3 Northern Brown Snake - 1 Eastern Garter Snake - 2 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 7 SPECIES. American Toad - (* - many) Northern Spring Peeper - (* - many) Western Chorus Frog - (* - many) Bullfrog - 3 Green Frog - 4 Wood Frog - 2 (*) Northern Leopard Frog - 47 V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. Creek Chub - many VI. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES. Cabbage Butterfly - 6 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]