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Today I took advantage of the cooler temperature to survey an area with
rugged terrain in the Hoover Nature Preserve for the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas II.
I took along pruning shears to fight off the multiflora rose, whereas I
really could have used a machete. Then there was the trading through the muck
along the feeder streams into Big Walnut Creek. My efforts were rewarded though
as the area produced 5 new Prothonotary Warbler nest sites, a Northern
Parula male gathering insects, 2 Yellow-throated Warblers, a singing Hooded
Warbler, a Cerulean Warbler, another Ruby-throated Hummingbird Nest with the female
on the nest, a Belted Kingfisher tunnel, a Pileated Woodpecker nest cavity,
and 2 Great Horned Owlets.
Scott Albaugh commented yesterday about the unexpected great surprises that
can be found when working a block for the Breeding Bird Atlas. I’ve been out
surveying my 6 blocks daily during the past two weeks and the activity has
been excellent and has produced some real surprises of which an American Bittern
tops my lists. Any birder that thinks things get dull after May needs to
participate in the survey. Have fun and help with an important survey of Ohio’s
birds.
Species I observed today were:
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Canada Goose (with goslings)
Wood Duck (with ducklings)
Mallard (with ducklings)
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Great Horned Owl (2 owlets)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (sitting on nest)
Belted Kingfisher (at nest tunnel)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Acadian Flycatcher (active nest)
Great Crested Flycatcher (at nest cavity)
Eastern Kingbird (on nest in low Black Willow over water)
Tree Swallow (feeding young in tree cavity)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler (feeding young at natural cavity)
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
Delorme 58 C (2) & (3)
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