It’s  my favorite time of the year. Adding to a binge of birding some of my 
favorite  locations in search of migrants it’s now time to pay attention to 
my nest boxes  at Hoover Reservoir.  I began making  a circuit of the trail 
this morning visiting Oxbow Road, Wiese Road and Dustin  Road. Along with 
the Prothonotary Warblers there continues to be a nice fallout  of migrants.  
I  had mixed results for the prothonotaries. Oxbow Road has been overrun 
with  fishermen for several weeks which may explain the poor showing for  
prothonotaries there. Virtually every piece of the shoreline that they can get  
to had a fisherman. The result, I heard only two Prothonotary Warblers 
singing  there which is significantly below the average of 8 to 10 pairs in past 
years. I  did see that I’m going to need a large supply of trash bags as 
some of the  people fishing apparently mistook Oxbow Road with the City 
landfill. Wiese Road  was a draw. There was little trash there, in part because 
some of the local  residents have been collecting the trash and partly because 
few people try to  fish at the location. On the negative side, the new 
stretch of the Ohio to Erie  Bike Trail was run through the preserve using Wiese 
Road. Time will tell how  this impacts on the nesting Prothonotary Warblers. 
Dustin Road has been used as  a trash receptacle by many people too. 
Although this area is well used by  fishermen they have thus far stayed away from 
the nest boxes and I located 14  male Prothonotary Warblers and a few 
females who appear to be using the nest  boxes. These are the three areas with 
nest boxes that seem to have the worse  abuse from people. Hopefully the rest 
of the areas with nest boxes will fare  better.  
Activity  other than Prothonotary warblers in the three areas  included: 
Waterfowl  and waders: Double-crested  Cormorant, Green Heron and Wood Duck 
Birds  of prey: Osprey, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk and Barred  
Owl 
Cuckoos:  Yellow-billed Cuckoo 
Flycatchers:  Eastern Wood-Pewee, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Acadian 
Flycatcher, Eastern  Phoebe, Great Crested Flycatcher, and Eastern Kingbird 
Vireos:  White-eyed, Yellow-throated, Blue-headed Vireo, Warbling Vireo and 
Red-eyed  Vireo 
Swallows:  Cliff Swallow             
Thrush:  Grey-checked, Swainson’s and Wood Thrush 
Warblers:  Blue-winged Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Nashville Warbler, 
Northern Parula,  Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, 
Yellow-rumped Warbler,  Black-throated Green Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, 
Yellow-throated Warbler,  Palm Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Black-and-White 
Warbler, American Redstart,  Prothonotary Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, 
Common Yellowthroat,  Wilson’s Warbler and Canada Warbler   
Tanagers  and Sparrows: Scarlet Tanager, Lincoln’s Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, 
White-throated  Sparrow, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Orchard 
Oriole and Baltimore  Oriole 
Charlie  Bombaci 
Hoover  Nature Preserve 
Delaware  County

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