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Monitoring my Prothonotary Warbler nest boxes at Area N of the Hoover Nature Preserve this morning was like watching the buttered pop corn machine at the IMAX. Fledglings were popping up everywhere. I counted 37 adults (21 males and 16 females) and 56 fledglings. I could hear many more males calling and no doubt had a multitude of fledglings that eluded being seen. What a great way to spend the morning. Some additional pleasures in this little Eden were a pair of Northern Parula feeding fledglings; a Wood Duck hen with 8 fuzz balls trailing behind her; Red-headed Woodpeckers bringing food to their nest cavities (3 pairs are nesting in Area N); the adult Osprey feeding the young at the nest platform; and a Great Horned Owl caught napping on the job. A list of the birds observed follows.
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
Species:
Canada Goose 18
Wood Duck 9
Mallard 10
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Great Blue Heron 4
Green Heron 3
Turkey Vulture 27
Osprey 5
Bald Eagle 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Ring-billed Gull 1
Mourning Dove 22
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Great Horned Owl 1
Chimney Swift 3
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-headed Woodpecker 5
Red-bellied Woodpecker 8
Downy Woodpecker 10
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Acadian Flycatcher 6
Eastern Phoebe 4
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 3
White-eyed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 5
Red-eyed Vireo 7
Blue Jay 12
American Crow 8
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5
Tree Swallow 15
Bank Swallow 4
Cliff Swallow 20
Carolina Chickadee 20
Tufted Titmouse 14
White-breasted Nuthatch 8
House Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Eastern Bluebird 1
Wood Thrush 3
American Robin 17
Gray Catbird 9
European Starling 23
Northern Parula 7 (2 adults & 5 fledglings)
Yellow Warbler 1
Yellow-throated Warbler 2
Prothonotary Warbler 93 (37 adults & 56 fledglings)
Ovenbird 1
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Eastern Towhee 1
Song Sparrow 4
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 19
Indigo Bunting 4
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Common Grackle 18
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 3
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