This afternoon I monitored Area A and Wiese Road at the Hoover Nature Preserve. It proved to be a productive day in more ways than expected. I began at Area N where I restricted my efforts to the old roadbed the runs from Front Street in Galena south to the remains of the old bridge at Big Walnut Creek. Within this short distance I tallied 31 Prothonotary Warblers, 19 males and 12 females. Several other species of warbler were present along the trail and there were Caspian and Common Terns on the boardwalk at Area M and snags protruding out of the water.

I finished by checking Wiese Road. At first glance the clearing done by the utility company under the wires and by the developers working on the Ohio to Erie Bike Trail will put a birder that has been to Wiese Road before into shock. This once was a delightful short trail with an incredible diversity of birds. It has been greatly altered by the aforementioned work. Nesting species will suffer as if they were in the Gulf Oil Spill. The flora along the road has been scalped (the kindest way I can describe it). Work has been stopped for the remainder of the nesting season. Still, I was able to verify at least 5 active Prothonotary Warblers on the reservoir side of the trail. As I was returning to my car at 4:30 PM I hit a small flourish of warblers, topped off by a Connecticut Warbler that was gleaning insects in a honeysuckle bush at the edge of the trail. Other warblers I saw along Wiese Road included Nashville, Yellow, Magnolia, Yellow-rumped, Black-and-white and Common Yellowthroat.

Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve

Birds observed at Area N and Wiese Road included:
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 3
Green Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 5
Canada Goose 13
Wood Duck 2
Mallard 7
Osprey 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Ring-billed Gull 15
Caspian Tern 3
Common Tern 4
Mourning Dove 10
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2
Chimney Swift 10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-headed Woodpecker 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 6
Northern Flicker 2
Eastern Wood- pewee 3
Acadian Flycatcher 6
Willow Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 4
Great Crested Flycatcher 4
Eastern Kingbird 3
White-eyed Vireo 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 8
Red- eyed Vireo 7
Blue Jay 10
American Crow 5
Tree Swallow 30
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 14
Bank Swallow 6
Cliff Swallow 30
Carolina Chickadee 12
Tufted Titmouse 7
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 7
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
Veery 3
Swainson’s Thrush 1
Wood Thrush 2
American Robin 13
Gray Catbird 8
European Starling 35
Nashville Warbler 2
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 3
Magnolia Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 6
Yellow-throated Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Prothonotary Warbler 39
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Connecticut Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Scarlet Tanager 1
Eastern Towhee 3
Song Sparrow 6
Northern Cardinal 13
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 8
Common Grackle 15
Brown-headed Cowbird 13
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 5
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 7
House Sparrow 4

　




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