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Date: 5/6/26 2:50 pm
From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...>
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Cuyahoga Valley Monthly Towpath Census
MAY 05, 2026 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS.
ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley.
TIME: 5:45am - 5:05pm TIME AFIELD: 11:20 TEMP.: 58F ~ 67F ~ 64F
COND.: Cloudy and cool with SW winds; light sprinkles from 7:05am - 7:30am;
turning mostly cloudy
then mostly sunny at 9:15am and warmer; turning cloudy again with another
light sprinkle from 2:25pm
to 2:35pm; front moving in from the southwest; light sprinkles turning to
steady rain from 3:30pm to 4:25pm.
TRAIL COND.: Fair; wet and puddled in the usual low spots.
RIVER COND.: Muddy and above normal - few rockbars or sandbars showing.
FT. MI.: 13.85 OBS.: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus.

I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES, (1 DEAD), 125 TOTAL.

1. Eastern Cottontail - 6
2. Eastern Chipmunk - 66
3. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 15 (4 black morph)
4. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 9
5. Red Squirrel - 20
6. Common Muskrat - 1
7. White-tailed Deer - 8 (2 bucks,5 does,1 unknown)

X. American Beaver - 1 (dead) (along the Towpath Trail south of the Akron
Compost Facility)

II. BIRDS: 95 SPECIES, 1,148 TOTAL.
(NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was
heard calling but not sexed)

1. Canada Goose - 77 (2 goslings) (one nest on a beaver lodge)
2. Trumpeter Swan - 2 (Second May Record on Census)
3. Wood Duck - 24 (6m,7f,1*,10 ducklings)
4. Mallard - 11 (8m,3f)
5. Common Merganser - 3 (f)
6. Rock Pigeon - 4
7. Mourning Dove - 30
8. Chimney Swift - 22
9. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (m)
10. Virginia Rail - 1
11. Killdeer - 5
12. Wilson's Snipe - 1 (Third May Record on Census)
13. Spotted Sandpiper - 3
14. Ring-billed Gull - 1 (Fifth May Record on Census)
15. Double-crested Cormorant - 4
16. Green Heron - 2
17. Great Blue Heron - 16
18. Turkey Vulture - 18
19. Bald Eagle - 3 (adult)
20. Broad-winged Hawk - 1
21. Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 (gray morph) (Fifth May Record on Census)
22. Belted Kingfisher - 3 (2m,1*)
23. Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
24. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13 (1m,5f,1?,6*)
25. Downy Woodpecker - 9 (1m,2f,6*)
26. Hairy Woodpecker - 5 (2m,2f,1*)
27. Northern Flicker - 8 (1m,3?,4*) (one nest in a sycamore snag)
28. Pileated Woodpecker - 6 (1m,1f,2?,2*)
29. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (m)
30. Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
31. Eastern Kingbird - 3
32. Eastern Phoebe - 6
33. White-eyed Vireo - 5
34. Yellow-throated Vireo - 8 (one nest being built in a sycamore tree)
35. Blue-headed Vireo - 2
36. Eastern Warbling Vireo - 20
37. Red-eyed Vireo - 3
38. Blue Jay - 28
39. American Crow - 12
40. Black-capped Chickadee - 18
41. Tufted Titmouse - 15
42. Bank Swallow - 6
43. Tree Swallow - 19 (two nests in dead snags)
44. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 13
45. Barn Swallow - 32
46. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (?)
47. Cedar Waxwing - 1
48. White-breasted Nuthatch - 14 (4m,1f,2?,7*) (one nest in a knothole
of an American elm)
49. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 15 (2m,3f,5?,5*) (one nest in an American
elm)
50. Carolina Wren - 11
51. Northern House Wren - 7 (one nest in a manmade wren box)
52. Gray Catbird - 21
53. European Starling - 48
54. Veery - 1
55. Wood Thrush - 4
56. American Robin - 57 (3 chicks) (one nest in an Eastern boxelder and
one nest with three chicks in a clematis)
57. House Sparrow - 21
58. House Finch - 8 (3m,1f,2?,2*)
59. American Goldfinch - 16 (10m,2f,2?,2*)
60. Chipping Sparrow - 7
61. Field Sparrow - 2
62. White-crowned Sparrow - 7
63. White-throated Sparrow - 5
64. Savannah Sparrow - 7 (all in Szalay's corn field behind the Everett
Ranger Station - Fourth May Record on Census & New Census High - previous
was 2 on 05/2022, 05/2024 & 04/2025)
65. Song Sparrow - 40
66. Swamp Sparrow - 11
67. Eastern Towhee - 5 (m)
68. Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 (Second May Record on Census)
69. Orchard Oriole - 11 (8m,1 immature m,2f)
70. Baltimore Oriole - 30 (29m,1f)
71. Red-winged Blackbird - 66 (47m,18f,1*) (one nest in a cattail stand)
72. Brown-headed Cowbird - 15 (13m,2f)
73. Rusty Blackbird - 2 (m)
74. Common Grackle - 36 (one nest in a cavity in a dead snag)
75. Ovenbird - 2
76. Louisiana Waterthrush - 7 (New Census High - previous was 5 on
05/2019, 05/2022 & 06/2022)
77. Northern Waterthrush - 4
78. Blue-winged Warbler - 7 (m) (New Census High - previous was 5 on
05/2013 & 05/2016)
79. Tennessee Warbler - 1 (m)
80. Nashville Warbler - 2 (m)
81. Common Yellowthroat - 27 (m)
82. Hooded Warbler - 4 (m)
83. American Redstart - 1 (m)
84. Cerulean Warbler - 1 (m)
85. Northern Parula - 3 (m)
86. Magnolia Warbler - 1 (m)
87. Northern Yellow Warbler - 33 (29m,4f)
88. Palm Warbler - 2
89. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15 (10m,5f)
90. Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 (m)
91. Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (m)
92. Scarlet Tanager - 6 (m)
93. Northern Cardinal - 58 (41m,14f,3*) (one nest in a Norway spruce)
94. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 21 (16m,4f,1*)
95. Indigo Bunting - 2 (1m,1*)

??. Unidentified Warbler Species - 2 (fly-over and chased by another
warbler)
??. Unidentified Passerines - 6

III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES, 70 TOTAL.

1. Common Snapping Turtle - 5
2. Red-eared Turtle - 1
3. Midland Painted Turtle - 60
4. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 3
5. Northern Water Snake - 1


IV. AMPHIBIANS: 5 SPECIES, 20 TOTAL.

1. Northern Spring Peeper - 8 (heard only)
2. Gray Treefrog - 3 (heard only)
3. American Bullfrog - 1
4. Green Frog - 7 (4 seen,3 heard)
5. Wood Frog - 1


V. FISHES: 1 SPECIES, 54 TOTAL.

1. Central Mudminnow - 54


VI. BUTTERFLIES: 6 SPECIES, 18 TOTAL.

1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 11
2. Cabbage Butterfly - 3
3. Pearl Crescent - 1 (Fourth May Record on Census)
4. Eastern Comma - 1 (Second May Record on Census)
5. Juvenal's Duskywing - 1 (Second Record on Census, Second May Record
on Census & Tied Census High from 05/2019)
6. Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1 (Third May Record on Census)


VII. MOTHS: 2 SPECIES, (2 NEW TO CENSUS), 2 TOTAL.

1. Sharp-angled Carpet Moth - 1 (New Species on Census - currently at
56 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 01/01/2010)
2. Fall Webworm Moth - 1 (New Species on Census - currently at 57
Moth/Caterpillar Species since 01/01/2010)


VIII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 1 SPECIES, 1 TOTAL.

1. Fragile Forktail - 1 (Third Record on Census & First May Record on
Census)


Compiler: Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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