SEPTEMBER 05, 2015 - Cuyahoga Valley Monthly Towpath Trail CensusHIKE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley.TIME: 7:30am-4:00pm TEMP.: 67-87 COND.: Warm, turning sunny, hot & humid.FT.MI.: 13.0 OBS.: John Henry & Douglas W. Vogus.I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. - Eastern Chipmunk - 29 - Eastern Gray Squirrel - 3 - Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 - Red Squirrel - 13 - Muskrat - 1 - White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe) II. BIRDS: 58 SPECIES.(NOTE: ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not seen) - Canada Goose - 32 - Wood Duck - 23 (8m,15f) - Mallard - 11 (3m,3f,5?) - Great Blue Heron - 5 - Green Heron - 6 (3 immature) - Turkey Vulture - 11 - Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) - Broad-winged Hawk - 2 (1 immature) (First September Record & Tied Census High on 06/2012 & 08/2013) - Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 immature) - Killdeer - 12 - Spotted Sandpiper - 1 - Solitary Sandpiper - 4 - Least Sandpiper - 1 (along river at Stumpy Basin - 8 photos taken) (New Bird on Census - now at 176 Species since 01/01/2010) - Rock Pigeon - 2 - Mourning Dove - 7 - Chimney Swift - 35 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 (1f,2?) - Belted Kingfisher - 2 (*) - Red-headed Woodpecker - 4 (1 immature) (New Census High - previous was 3 on 07/2010, 08/2010, 07/2012 & 05/2014) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 (4m,2f,1?,1 immature,1*) - Downy Woodpecker - 5 (2f,3*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1f,2?) - Northern Flicker - 9 (3m,1f,2?,3*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*) - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 - Eastern Phoebe - 3 - Eastern Kingbird - 1 (First September Record) - Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 - Warbling Vireo - 13 - Blue Jay - 31 - American Crow - 10 - Purple Martin - 3 (First September Record & New Census High - previous was 2 on 08/2014) - Tree Swallow - 24 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 5 - Barn Swallow - 3 - Black-capped Chickadee - 19 - Tufted Titmouse - 9 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 (2m,1f,1?,6*) - Carolina Wren - 4 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 (?) - Eastern Bluebird - 3 (1f,2 immature) - Veery - 1 (First September Record) - American Robin - 16 - Gray Catbird - 18 - European Starling - 16 - Cedar Waxwing - 9 - Common Yellowthroat - 7 (1m,1 immature m,2f,3*) - Hooded Warbler - 1 (immature m) - Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m) - Eastern Towhee - 1 (m) - Song Sparrow - 5 - Swamp Sparrow - 1 - Northern Cardinal - 20 (4m,3f,12*,1 immature*) - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (immature m) - Red-winged Blackbird - 29 (24m,4f,1?) - Common Grackle - 4 - House Finch - 4 (1f,2?,1*) - American Goldfinch - 23 (5m,4f,2?,12*) III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES. - Common Snapping Turtle - 1 - Midland Painted Turtle - 45 - Eastern Spiny Softshell - 2 AMPHIBIANS: 4 SPECIES. - Northern Spring Peeper - 6 (heard) - Gray Treefrog - 1 (heard) - Bullfrog - 5 - Green Frog - 4 FISHES: 4 SPECIES. - Common Carp - 10 - Creek Chub - 33 - Common Shiner - 100+ (Ira Beaver Marsh) - Bluegill - 14 BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES. - Cabbage Butterfly - 29 - Summer Azure - 6 - Great Spangled Fritillary - 1 - Pearl Crescent - 2 - Red-spotted Purple - 1 - Monarch - 3 - Wild Indigo Dusky Wing - 1 - Least Skipper - 1 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]