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Today Bill & Mary Heck and I surveyed several areas of the preserve for
activity. The day began unseasonably cold and only gradually got comfortable for
both the birds and us. While Bill and I concentrated more on the birds, Mary
enjoyed more diversity as she also took in the flowers and butterflies c
urrently  present at the preserve. While the activity was slower than past days, it
picked  up and we had a reasonable day. My highlight was the arrival of the
first female  Prothonotary Warblers. Our day began with a male Prothonotary
Warbler greeting  us by perching in the sunlight and belting away his song (he
knew the ladies  were back), and ended with a Cooper's Hawk plucking the feathers
off an American  Robin it had caught. Our species for the day include:

Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Ruddy Duck    (Drake and Hen - very late for species in  this area)
Osprey
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Cliff swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Northern Parula
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Palm Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
Delorme 58 C (2) & (3)





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