Today I monitored the Prothonotary Warbler nest boxes in three new areas  
around the preserve, the coves at Twin Bridges, Area O off Red Bank Road,  and  
an area on the west shore which was added to the trail this  year.  I located 
and marked 14 new Prothonotary Warbler territories today  bringing the current 
year’s count to 82. The females have arrived and I watched  several bringing 
nesting materials to the nest boxes. 
 
Angling to observe nest sites from the steep banks and creeks at Twin  
Bridges turned out to be a challenge. I managed to find a deep pool in the  stream 
and fill one boot with water and later I began sliding down a steep  embankment 
so I reached to grab something to stop the slide, wrong choice,  multiform 
rose.  A blood sacrifice for the Prothonotary.
 
Birds observed this morning :
Canada Goose
Wood  Duck    (16)
Mallard
Double-crested  Cormorant    (10)
Great Blue Heron
Green  Heron    (3)
Turkey Vulture
Cooper’s  Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot    (nesting  pair?)
Killdeer
Spotted  Sandpiper    (2)
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning  Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo    (4)
Belted  Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern  Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker    (2)
Acadian  Flycatcher    (6)
Great Crested  Flycatcher    (4)
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling  Vireo    (13)
Red-eyed  Vireo    (11)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree  Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff  Swallow    (47)
Barn Swallow
Carolina  Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina  Wren
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern  Bluebird
Veery    (5)
Swainson’s  Thrush    (2)
Wood  Thrush    (4)
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern  Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Tennessee  Warbler    (3)
Nashville  Warbler    (6)
Yellow  Warbler    (10)
Chestnut-sided  Warbler    (3)
Magnolia  Warbler    (4)
Yellow-rumped  Warbler    (11)
Black-throated Green  warbler    (4)
Black-and-white  Warbler    (2)
Yellow-throated  Warbler    (1)
Prothonotary  Warbler    (23)
Ovenbird    (2)
Louisiana  Waterthrush    (2)
Wilson’s  Warbler    (1)
Yellow-breasted  Chat    (3)
Summer  Tanager    (2)
Scarlet  Tanager    (7)
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Song  Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted  Grosbeak    (5)
Red-winged Blackbird
Common  Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore  Oriole    (17)
American Goldfinch
 
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
Delorme 58 C (2) &  (3)
 
 



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