SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY TOWPATH TRAIL.HIKE: Merriman Valley north to Ira Beaver Marsh. TIME: 6:55am-10:20am TEMP.: 55~64COND.: Cool early, turning sunny with blue skies. FT.MI.: 4.50 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 3 SPECIES. - Eastern Chipmunk - 19 - Red Squirrel - 13 - Eastern Cottontail - 2 II. BIRDS: 50 SPECIES.(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed) - Canada Goose - 9 - Wood Duck - 7 (2m,5f) - Mallard - 2 (1m,1?) - Great Blue Heron - 2 - Green Heron - 1 (immature) - Virginia Rail - 1 (photo below) - Mourning Dove - 1 - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (actively hunting at Lock 25) - Chimney Swift - 12 - Belted Kingfisher - 1 (*) - Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,1?,3*) - Downy Woodpecker - 10 (1m,3f,2?,4*) - Hairy Woodpecker - 6 (1?5*) - Northern Flicker - 7 (1m,1f,5*) - Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (*) - American Kestrel - 1 (male at the A.W.P.C.S. that caught a Chimney Swift in midair) - Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 - Eastern Phoebe - 3 - Yellow-throated Vireo - 3 - Warbling Vireo - 1 - Blue Jay - 26 - American Crow - 13 - Black-capped Chickadee - 14 - Tufted Titmouse - 6 - White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (1m,1f,6*) - House Wren - 2 - Carolina Wren - 4 - Eastern Bluebird - 2 (*) - American Robin - 41 - Gray Catbird - 22 - European Starling - 60 - Cedar Waxwing - 83 - Northern Waterthrush - 1 (on a sandbar along the Cuyahoga River) - Common Yellowthroat - 4 (3m,1f) - Hooded Warbler - 2 (m) - Northern Parula - 1 (m) - Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 (m) - Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (f) - Blackpoll Warbler - 1 (m) - Unidentified Warbler Fly-overs - 3 - Eastern Towhee - 1 (m) - Song Sparrow - 8 - Swamp Sparrow - 1 - Northern Cardinal - 17 (4m,5f,8*) - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (1m,2*) - Indigo Bunting - 1 (*) - Red-winged Blackbird - 8 (4m,4f) - Common Grackle - 20 - House Finch - 5 (1m,4*) - American Goldfinch - 11 (3m,3f,5*) - House Sparrow - 23 - Unidentified Passerines - 13 III. AMPHIBIANS: 1 SPECIES. - Northern Spring Peeper - 4 (heard only) IV. FISHES: 1 SPECIES. - Pumpkinseed - 8 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]