This afternoon I checked Areas L, M, and N ofthe Hoover Nature Preserve in hopes I might find my FOS Prothonotary Warbler.The eBird Maps indicate reports of PROWs  as close as the Cincinnati area so it will notbe long before I hear “Sweet, Sweet, Sweet, Sweet” and declare it to be Spring.No luck today, but soon. I visited Area L (Dustin Road), Area M (Boardwalk) andArea N (the wetland forest just south of Front Street in Galena). In spite of abrisk, chilly wind, activity was fairly constant and added 5 FOS species to myyear list. 
 
Highlights at Area L include high numbers ofboth Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Great Egrets and a Pileated Woodpecker.
 
Highlights at Area M include both an adultand an immature Bald Eagle, 3 Osprey, Caspian Terns on the boardwalk rail mixedin with the Ring-billed and Herring Gulls, a Yellow-throated Warbler, EasternPhoebes and Common Loon.
 
Highlights at Area N include Blue-wingedTeal, Red-headed Woodpecker (5), Pileated Woodpecker, Brown Creeper,Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Yellow-rumpedWarbler (30+) and Yellow-throated Warbler.

CharlieBombaci
HooverNature Preserve

 
SPECIESLIST
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal (FOS)
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern (FOS)
Mourning Dove
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (FOS)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (FOS)
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler (FOS)
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch

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