The Prothonotary Warblers at the Hoover Nature Preserve have been fledging  
at a rate equal to buttered popcorn at a Cineplex. Even with the lack of rain 
in  Central Ohio and the dropping water level at Hoover Reservoir they appear 
to be  having another very successful year. Thursday Jim Fry and I watched the 
adults  feeding the hatchlings at a nest along the Big Walnut Creek and Friday 
they were  fledged and begging for food. There are still many nests that have 
yet to  fledge, but as a whole they seem to be fledging earlier than normal. 
 
They have plenty of company as I’ve been encountering recent fledglings  
everywhere in my blocks for the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas. Among the species  
confirmed this week as breeding via fledglings were:
 
Green Heron
Wood Duck
Wild Turkey
Killdeer
Great Horn  Owl
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied  Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Great Crested  Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling  Vireo
Tree Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown  Creeper
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood  Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern  Parula
Prothonotary Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common  Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Eastern  Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
 

Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
Delorme 58 C (2) &  (3)




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