Today I combined monitoring Prothonotary Warbler nest boxes and general birding at the Hoover Nature Preserve. It was a very productive day on both counts. The tally for the day included 31 male Prothonotary Warblers on territory and 101 species overall. The birds observed were: Canada Goose Mute Swan (1) Wood Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal (4) Northern Shoveler (2) Hooded Merganser (1) Double-crested Cormorant (56) Great Blue Heron Green Heron (2) Turkey Vulture Osprey (2) Bald Eagle (1 adult) Cooper’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Coot Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Bonaparte’s Gull (7) Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull (1) Caspian Tern (5) Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl (1) Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker (3) Acadian Flycatcher (6) Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher (5) White-eyed Vireo (2) Yellow-throated Vireo (1) Blue-headed Vireo (4) Warbling Vireo (14) Red-eyed Vireo (7) Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow (100+, see comment below) Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper (2, the nesting pair are back) Carolina Wren House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet (3) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery (4) Gray-cheeked Thrush (2) Swainson’s Thrush (5) Wood Thrush (7) American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher (5) European Starling Cedar Waxwing (11) Nashville Warbler (10) Northern parula (2) Yellow Warbler (13) Chestnut-sided Warbler (6) Magnolia Warbler (8) Black-throated Blue Warbler (4) Yellow-rumped Warbler (30+) Black-throated Green Warbler (12) Yellow-throated Warbler (2) Palm Warbler (9) Black-and-white Warbler (4) American Redstart (12) Prothonotary Warbler (31) Ovenbird (1) Louisiana Waterthrush (1) Canada Warbler (3) Summer Tanager (3) Scarlet Tanager (5) Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow (2) White-throated Sparrow (12) White-crowned Sparrow (1) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak (4) Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole (2) Baltimore Oriole (9) House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Cliff Swallow (Don't fret the loss at the dam, there are large active colonies under the bridges at Smothers Road, Area I on Old 3C Highway, Area L in Galena, Twin Bridges on Red Bank Road, Sunbury Road Causeway and Area O on Redbank Road. Combined they had hundred's of active nest in 2006 and are already active in 2007) Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve Delorme 58 C (2) & (3) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]