I spend a good part of today monitoring my Prothonotary Warbler nest box
trail. The females are back and things are now getting down to serious business.
The males have defined their territory boundaries and the females are
pairing up. I observed the females busily make trip after trip collecting  material
and bringing it to their nest box or natural cavity. It won't be long  before
there are eggs in the nests.If the weather permits I may be able to make  the
first circuit of the nest box zones. I now have 2 zones down and 14  zones to
go.

While checking the nest boxes I did pay some attention to other  activity
around me. Warblers observes along with the Prothonotary Warblers were
Nashville, Northern Parula, Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Yellow-rumped,  Black-throated
Green, Yellow-throated, Palm, American Redstart, Louisiana  Waterthrush and Common
Yellowthroat.

Vireos included Yellow-throated, Warbling and Red-eyed.

Also, Scarlet Tanager, Green Heron, Bald Eagle, Spotted Sandpiper and Brown
Creeper.

On a related note, today I observed 3 Prothonotary Warbler males that we
banded during the spring of 2004. Everyone of them was within 200 feet of the
location where it was banded.

Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve




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