This morning Jackie Brown and I led a field trip at the Hoover Nature  
Preserve for the Delaware County Chapter of the Ohio Young Birders’ Club. We  began 
with the boardwalk at Area M where we used spotting scopes to view the  Osprey 
at the nest platform and Cliff Swallows under the Old 3C Highway bridge.  
Next I led the group on a tour of Area N to see Prothonotary Warblers. From the  
trail we were quickly able to view about 4 males singing in the sunlight. This 
 not being up to my acceptable level, I took the group on an off-trail tour 
to  the back area where most of my nest boxes in this section are located (we 
added  about 15 more Prothonotary warblers). We very quickly got sidetracked 
though  when I turn up a pair of Barred Owls. Once we got past the first pair of 
owls we  continued to the back 40 and got sidetracked again when we located a 
pair of  Great Horned Owls (with the assistance of some mobbing crows). Less 
than 20  yards on we discovered a new fawn curled up in the ground cover. It 
remained  perfectly still as we let the kids view it from a safe distance and 
then quickly  moved on to prevent stressing  the fawn. Now in the back area we 
began  seeing Prothonotary Warblers with regularity and heard many more close 
by. With  persistence I was eventually able to call in resident Northern Parula
’s. We also  found what is likely one of the Brown Creepers that is nesting 
in Area N along  with many other species the kids and adults enjoyed. As we 
continued our route  we again located one of the Great Horned Owls and viewed it 
as it looked down at  us from its high perch. I crossed over into Area M to 
return on a different path  and  we discovered another new fawn curled up in the 
ground cover. Luck is  stumbling into one fawn, discovering two fawns on the 
same walk was stunner. The  kids and the adults, parents and grandparents, all 
appeared to have had an  enjoyable outing . A list of the species we observed 
includes:
 
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada  Goose
Mallard
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning  Dove
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated  Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern  Flicker
Eastern Wood Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great  Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling  Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern  Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted  Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House  Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray  Catbird
European Starling
Northern Parula
Yellow  Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American  Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Indigo  Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed  Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
 
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
 





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