Monitoring my Prothonotary Warbler nest boxes at Area N of the Hoover Nature Preserve this morning was like watching the buttered pop corn machine at the IMAX. Fledglings were popping up everywhere. I counted 37 adults (21 males and 16 females) and 56 fledglings. I could hear many more males calling and no doubt had a multitude of fledglings that eluded being seen. What a great way to spend the morning. Some additional pleasures in this little Eden were a pair of Northern Parula feeding fledglings; a Wood Duck hen with 8 fuzz balls trailing behind her; Red-headed Woodpeckers bringing food to their nest cavities (3 pairs are nesting in Area N); the adult Osprey feeding the young at the nest platform; and a Great Horned Owl caught napping on the job. A list of the birds observed follows.
 
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
 



Species:
Canada Goose     18
Wood Duck     9
Mallard     10
Double-crested Cormorant     7
Great Blue Heron     4
Green Heron     3
Turkey Vulture     27
Osprey     5
Bald Eagle     1
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Killdeer     1
Spotted Sandpiper     1
Ring-billed Gull     1
Mourning Dove     22
Yellow-billed Cuckoo     1
Great Horned Owl     1
Chimney Swift     3
Belted Kingfisher     2
Red-headed Woodpecker     5 
Red-bellied Woodpecker     8
Downy Woodpecker     10
Eastern Wood-Pewee     2
Acadian Flycatcher     6
Eastern Phoebe     4
Great Crested Flycatcher     2
Eastern Kingbird     3
White-eyed Vireo     1
Warbling Vireo     5
Red-eyed Vireo     7
Blue Jay     12
American Crow     8
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     5
Tree Swallow     15
Bank Swallow     4
Cliff Swallow     20
Carolina Chickadee     20
Tufted Titmouse     14
White-breasted Nuthatch     8
House Wren     2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     2
Eastern Bluebird     1
Wood Thrush     3
American Robin     17
Gray Catbird     9
European Starling     23
Northern Parula     7 (2 adults & 5 fledglings)
Yellow Warbler     1
Yellow-throated Warbler     2
Prothonotary Warbler     93 (37 adults & 56 fledglings)
Ovenbird     1
Louisiana Waterthrush     1
Common Yellowthroat     2
Eastern Towhee     1
Song Sparrow     4
Scarlet Tanager     1
Northern Cardinal     19
Indigo Bunting     4
Red-winged Blackbird     5
Common Grackle     18
Baltimore Oriole     1
American Goldfinch     3



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