Date: 6/8/25 7:24 am From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] CVNP Towpath Trail Census
JUNE 07, 2025 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS. ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley, with a stop at Trail Mix in Peninsula and Szalay's Farm & Market. TIME: 6:00am - 4:20pm TIME AFIELD: 10:20 TEMP.: 60F ~ 80F ~ 78F COND.: Cloudy early with some light fog; fog burning off and turning warmer with blue skies; clouding back up later with very hazy skies from Canada wildfires; winds light and variable. TRAIL COND.: Good; trail open at Brandywine Creek but still awaiting back-fill and final touches before complete; biggest nuisance was the Eastern cottonwood seed dispersal - there was no escaping it! RIVER COND.: Very low and clear. FT. MI.: 14.10 OBS.: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 10 SPECIES, 90 TOTAL.
1. Eastern Cottontail - 10 (4 bunnies) (Tied Census High from 08/2024) 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 44 3. Woodchuck - 1 (pup) 4. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 9 (1 black morph) 5. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 1 6. Red Squirrel - 15 7. Common Muskrat - 4 (3 kits) 8. House Mouse - 1 (Second Record on Census, Second June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 06/2024) 9. Coyote - 1 (very black individual - First June Record on Census) 10. White-tailed Deer - 4 (3 does,1?) (also one dead fawn - well, just the back half of it)
II. BIRDS: 80 SPECIES, 921 TOTAL. (NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 50 (16 goslings) 2. Wood Duck - 22 (2m,6f,14 ducklings in groups of 2,2,5 & 5) 3. Mallard - 9 (7m,2f) 4. Common Merganser - 9 (2f,7 ducklings) (one female with 7 ducklings in Cuyahoga River at north end of Stanford Swamp - Fourth June Record on Census) 5. Wild Turkey - 3 (1f,2 poults) (Fourth June Record on Census) 6. Rock Pigeon - 2 7. Mourning Dove - 18 8. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 9. Chimney Swift - 4 10. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5 (2m,3f) 11. Killdeer - 1 12. American Woodcock - 1 (Second June Record on Census) 13. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 14. Green Heron - 7 15. Great Blue Heron - 16 16. Turkey Vulture - 17 17. Bald Eagle - 2 (adult) (Fifth June Record on Census) 18. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 19. Broad-winged Hawk - 1 20. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 21. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (1f,1?,1*) 22. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10 (3m,1f,3?,3*) 23. Downy Woodpecker - 7 (1m,2f,1?,1*,2 juvenile*) 24. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (*) 25. Northern Flicker - 4 (2?,2*) 26. Pileated Woodpecker - 4 (3*,1 drumming) 27. American Kestrel - 1 (m) (East end of Stanford Swamp - Second June Record on Census) 28. Peregrine Falcon - 6 (1m,3 juvenile m,1f,1 juvenile f) ("Trailblazer" & "Gypsy" with young at Ohio Turnpike bridge - Tied Census High from 06/2011) 29. Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 30. Eastern Kingbird - 2 31. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6 32. Acadian Flycatcher - 3 33. Willow Flycatcher - 6 (Tied Census High from 06/2011, 06/2020 & 06/2022) 34. Eastern Phoebe - 3 35. Yellow-throated Vireo - 4 36. Warbling Vireo - 21 37. Red-eyed Vireo - 30 (one nest in a sugar maple tree) 38. Blue Jay - 14 39. American Crow - 15 40. Black-capped Chickadee - 8 41. Tufted Titmouse - 16 42. Bank Swallow - 1 43. Tree Swallow - 7 44. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 13 45. Barn Swallow - 5 46. Cedar Waxwing - 31 (one nest being built in a sycamore tree) 47. White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (1m,1?,6*) 48. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 (1m,1f,2*) (one nest being built in a black walnut tree) 49. Carolina Wren - 14 50. Northern House Wren - 6 51. Gray Catbird - 26 52. European Starling - 42 53. Eastern Bluebird - 1 (juvenile) 54. Veery - 2 55. Wood Thrush - 1 56. American Robin - 40 (1 juvenile) (one nest in a sycamore tree and one nest on the vault toilet doorway at Ira Beaver Marsh Trailhead) 57. House Sparrow - 28 58. House Finch - 8 (5m,1f,1?,1*) 59. American Goldfinch - 22 (14m,5f,3*) 60. Chipping Sparrow - 4 61. Field Sparrow - 1 62. Song Sparrow - 42 63. Swamp Sparrow - 11 64. Eastern Towhee - 4 (3m,1*) 65. Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 (Second June Record on Census) 66. Orchard Oriole - 6 (5m,1 immature m) 67. Baltimore Oriole - 25 (19m,2f,1*,3 chicks) (one nest in a sugar maple and three nests in sycamore trees) 68. Red-winged Blackbird - 43 (29m,13f,1 juvenile) 69. Brown-headed Cowbird - 14 (7m,6f,1 juvenile being fed by a Red-eyed Vireo) 70. Common Grackle - 20 71. Blue-winged Warbler - 3 (m) 72. Common Yellowthroat - 21 (m) 73. Hooded Warbler - 5 (4m,1*) 74. American Redstart - 7 (6m,1f) (one nest being built in a down-hanging stinking passionflower vine) 75. Northern Parula - 4 (m) 76. Yellow Warbler - 26 (24m,2f) 77. Scarlet Tanager - 5 (m) 78. Northern Cardinal - 41 (26m,1 juvenile m,7f,7*) 79. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 13 (12m,1f) 80. Indigo Bunting - 13 (m)
1. American Toad - 1 (Fifth June Record on Census) 2. American Bullfrog - 7 (5 seen,2 heard) 3. Green Frog - 25 (6 seen,19 heard)
V. FISHES: 7 SPECIES, 110 TOTAL.
1. Central Mudminnow - 3 2. Golden Shiner - 2 (First June Record on Census) 3. Bluntnose Minnow - 89 (Fifth June Record on Census) 4. Common White Sucker - 4 (First June Record on Census) 5. Largemouth Bass - 2 6. Bluegill - 4 7. Pumpkinseed - 6
VI. CRUSTACEANS: 1 SPECIES, 1 TOTAL.
1. Crayfish - 1 (Second June Record on Census)
VII. BUTTERFLIES: 8 SPECIES, 25 TOTAL.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 4 3. Summer Azure - 2 4. Silvery Checkerspot - 2 (Third Record on Census, Second June Record on Census & New Census High - previous was 1 on 06/2012 & 09/2021) 5. Appalachian Brown - 2 (Fourth Record on Census & First June Record on Census) 6. Little Wood Satyr - 9 7. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2 8. Hobomok Skipper - 2 (Fifth June Record on Census)
VIII. MOTHS: 2 SPECIES, (1 FIRST OF CENSUS), 2 TOTAL.
1. Confused Eusarca - 1 (Second Record on Census, Second June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 06/2014) 2. Drab Prominent - 1 (New Species on Census - currently at 46 Moth Species since 01/01/2010)
IX. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 11 SPECIES, 60 TOTAL.
1. Lancet Clubtail - 1 (Fifth Record on Census, Third June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 07/2018, 06/2022, 07/2022 & 06/2024) 2. Common Baskettail - 3 3. Eastern Pondhawk - 2 (Third June Record on Census) 4. Dot-tailed Whiteface - 6 5. Slaty Skimmer - 2 (Fifth June Record on Census) 6. Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 1 (Second June Record on Census) 7. Blue Dasher - 5 8. Black Saddlebags - 1 (Fourth June Record on Census) 9. Ebony Jewelwing - 26 10. Blue-tipped Dancer - 3 11. Azure Bluet - 10 (Fifth June Record on Census)
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