Today I monitored the Prothonotary Warbler nest boxes at Old Sunbury Road and the inlet near the East Shore Yacht Club. I located and marked 20 Prothonotary Warbler territories along this stretch. General activity continued to be productive at the preserve. Birds observed today were: Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Double-crested Cormorant (71) Great Blue Heron Green Heron (3) Turkey Vulture Osprey (1) Bald Eagle (2 adults) Sharp-shinned Hawk (1) Red-tailed Hawk American Coot Killdeer Bonaparte’s Gull (9) Ring-billed Gull Caspian Tern (3) Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo (2) Barred Owl (1) Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker (2) Great Crested Flycatcher (5) White-eyed Vireo (2) Yellow-throated Vireo (3) Warbling Vireo (13) Red-eyed Vireo (5) Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow (18) Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery (4) Swainson’s Thrush (4) Wood Thrush (3) American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher (3) European Starling Cedar Waxwing (16) Nashville Warbler (8) Yellow Warbler (7) Chestnut-sided Warbler (10) Magnolia Warbler (3) Yellow-rumped Warbler (11) Black-throated Green warbler (4) Palm Warbler (7) Black-and-white Warbler (2) American Redstart (6) Prothonotary Warbler (20) Canada Warbler (2) Scarlet Tanager (3) Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow (2) White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak (4) Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole (15) House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow 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]