This morning was the quietest day I've had since March. Linda accompanied me as I monitored another area for the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas Project. We only turned 10 Prothonotary Warblers, 9 of which I had previously identified. The females are either laying their eggs or already beginning incubating so things are less frantic. Great Crested Flycatchers were in good numbers as we observed 11 in all and located 2 nest sites. Green Herons are active and we observed one that may have taken on more than it should, It had a catfish about 8 inches long and how it could possibly get it down is beside me. The cuckoos were teasing as numerous were heard but none would come out in the open. I guess I surpassed my quota with the cooperation they gave me last week. We later visited Hoover Meadows to see if we could locate the American Bittern I saw last week. No bird this morning but I'll keep checking as I would like to include it in the Atlas census even if only as a vagrant summer visitor. 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]