I got out early this morning as the weather prediction was hot and humid.  In 
two hours I used both bottles of water I had with me. I monitored two areas  
of the Prothonotary Warbler Nest Trail for the first time today  and added  8 
new nest sites to the 2007 total which now stands at 118. The locations I  
visited this morning were Area Q and Area R, both  include inlets on the  east 
shore of Hoover Reservoir. I also worked on the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas II  
Project as these areas are in my adopted blocks. Today continued a trend that  
has been going on during the past week, Yellow-billed Cuckoos were present in  
good numbers at both areas. I heard about 15 this morning and I was able to  
locate 7 of them including a pair constructing a nest. A Yellow-billed Cuckoos  
nest is a wonder of nature. You wonder why the eggs don't simply fall through  
the nest as it is constructed of loosely “piled”, or “deposited” sticks. 
Other  nests I located included Acadian Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Great 
Crested  Flycatcher and  3 separate Cliff Swallow colonies.
 
Birds of interest observed this morning:
Green  Heron    (5)
Yellow-billed  Cuckoo    (7)
Barred  Owl    (1)
Acadian  Flycatcher    (6)
Great Crested  Flycatcher    (6)
Eastern  Kingbird    (13)
Cliff  Swallow    (78)
Wood  Thrush    (4)
Warbling  Vireo    (10)
Red-eyed  Vireo    (9)
Yellow  Warbler    (14)
Black-throated Green  Warbler    (1)
Yellow-throated  Warbler    (3)
American  Redstart    (2)
Prothonotary  Warbler    (8 males, 4  females)
Ovenbird    (1)
Louisiana  Waterthrush    (2)
Common  Yellowthroat    (4)
Yellow-breasted  Chat    (2)
Summer  Tanager    (1)
Scarlet  Tanager    (4)
Indigo  Bunting    (5)
 
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
Delorme 58 C (2) &  (3)
 





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