I got out early this morning as the weather prediction was hot and humid. In two hours I used both bottles of water I had with me. I monitored two areas of the Prothonotary Warbler Nest Trail for the first time today and added 8 new nest sites to the 2007 total which now stands at 118. The locations I visited this morning were Area Q and Area R, both include inlets on the east shore of Hoover Reservoir. I also worked on the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas II Project as these areas are in my adopted blocks. Today continued a trend that has been going on during the past week, Yellow-billed Cuckoos were present in good numbers at both areas. I heard about 15 this morning and I was able to locate 7 of them including a pair constructing a nest. A Yellow-billed Cuckoos nest is a wonder of nature. You wonder why the eggs don't simply fall through the nest as it is constructed of loosely “piled”, or “deposited” sticks. Other nests I located included Acadian Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Great Crested Flycatcher and 3 separate Cliff Swallow colonies. Birds of interest observed this morning: Green Heron (5) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (7) Barred Owl (1) Acadian Flycatcher (6) Great Crested Flycatcher (6) Eastern Kingbird (13) Cliff Swallow (78) Wood Thrush (4) Warbling Vireo (10) Red-eyed Vireo (9) Yellow Warbler (14) Black-throated Green Warbler (1) Yellow-throated Warbler (3) American Redstart (2) Prothonotary Warbler (8 males, 4 females) Ovenbird (1) Louisiana Waterthrush (2) Common Yellowthroat (4) Yellow-breasted Chat (2) Summer Tanager (1) Scarlet Tanager (4) Indigo Bunting (5) 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]