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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